Rola referendum w powstawaniu państw po 1989 r. w Europie
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2012
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Wydawnictwo Naukowe WNPiD UAM w Poznaniu
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The role of referendums in the establishment of states in Europe following 1989
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The institution of the referendum is one of the forms of direct democracy. Referendums
are understood as direct suffrage on important matters of state, or a part of
its territory, that constitute the subject of the vote. In the processes of democratic
transformation, outlooks on this institution of direct democracy evolve. Referendums
have become a tool to express the will of the nation to choose in matters of
sovereignty. This form of asking the nation has turned out to be effective for those
communities with a strong sense of national identity and the belief that it is necessary
for the state to be revived as a sovereign entity. The results of the referenda held
in the Baltic states, in the Balkans and Ukraine have confirmed their peoples’ wills
to independently exist within the framework of a sovereign state.
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Środkowoeuropejskie Studia Polityczne, 2012, nr 4, s. 7-26.