Cleavage referendums: ideological decisions and transformational political change

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dc.contributor.authorReidy, Theresaen
dc.date.accessioned2025-05-09T14:10:19Z
dc.date.available2025-05-09T14:10:19Z
dc.date.issued2025-05-07en
dc.description.abstractReferendum use has been increasing around the world. In some cases, referendum devices are incorporated into the institutional architecture of the state while in many others, referendums are used in an, and often consultative manner, to determine positions on contentious and divisive political questions. Many of the divisive referendum questions are what we term “cleavage referendums” in this thematic issue. These referendums ask questions that draw from underlying cleavages or fault lines in politics. Voting in these referendums will often exhibit first‐order effects, as voters make decisions that align with their fundamental values and beliefs. The articles in this issue make three important contributions to enrich existing work on referendums: The first contribution lies in the development of new conceptual models for analysing referendums, such as new forms of classifying cleavage referendums, presenting a predictive model for the outcomes of referendum votes, and documenting and applying methodological approaches and frameworks that can provide the foundations for further future comparative work. The second contribution builds on the burgeoning literature that sits at the intersection of deliberative and direct democracy. In this sense, the articles interrogate examples of deliberative and participatory innovations in combination with referendum votes, while also examining their further potential, especially in one of the most contentious referendum contexts, secession. Finally, the role of cleavage structures in shaping voter decision‐making is explored thoroughly in comparative analyses and single case studies.en
dc.description.statusPeer revieweden
dc.description.versionPublished Versionen
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dc.identifier.articleid10321en
dc.identifier.citationReidy, T. (2025) 'Cleavage referendums: ideological decisions and transformational political change', Politics and Governance, 13, 10321 (6pp). https://doi.org/10.17645/pag.10321en
dc.identifier.doi10.17645/pag.10321en
dc.identifier.endpage6en
dc.identifier.issn2183-2463en
dc.identifier.journaltitlePolitics and Governanceen
dc.identifier.startpage1en
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10468/17408
dc.identifier.volume13en
dc.language.isoenen
dc.publisherCogitatio Pressen
dc.relation.ispartofPolitics and Governanceen
dc.rights© 2025, Theresa Reidy. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0), which permits any use, distribution, and reproduction of the work without further permission provided the original author(s) and source are credited.en
dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/en
dc.subjectCleavage referendumsen
dc.subjectIdeologyen
dc.subjectPolitical cleavagesen
dc.subjectReferendum campaignsen
dc.subjectReferendum votingen
dc.subjectReferendumsen
dc.titleCleavage referendums: ideological decisions and transformational political changeen
dc.typeArticle (peer-reviewed)en
dc.typejournal-articleen
oaire.citation.volume13en
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