Direkte Demokratie in Deutschland

Kost, Andreas

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“…Popular votes on the renaming of streets or squares are not uncommon in Germany (Kost, 2013: 39–40). Thus, the conflict in Muenster can be understood as a symptom of societal conflicts about the interpretation of the common past.…”

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Collective memory and social media: Fostering a new historical consciousness in the digital age?

Birkner

Donk

2018

Memory Studies

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The impact of social media has grown significantly during the past decade in several fields of our society. This article advocates the research subfield of social media memory studies based on empirical data from a case study on the role of social media in a local conflict about re-naming a public square in an average German town. The square had been named after Paul von Hindenburg, who played a crucial role in the implementation of Adolf Hitler as German Reichskanzler and was therefore regarded as an inadequate public patron. Conservatives fought against the new name, also on Facebook. Our findings indicate that the platform played a decisive role as counter-public sphere against hegemonic mainstream media and politics in fostering a new historical consciousness. The case might be seen as a precedent of right-wing movements and their use of social media in the Brexit campaign or the US elections.

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Section: Basic Assumptions and Central Research Questionsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Collective memory and social media: Fostering a new historical consciousness in the digital age?

Birkner

Donk

2018

Memory Studies

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“…To provide a basic level of comparability, we limited our analysis to countries rated as free or partly free by Freedom House at the time of the vote. This guaranteed that civil rights were provided at least to some degree in the context of the votes (for direct democratic votes in authoritarian regimes, see for example Beramendi et al, 2008; Collin, 2019; Kost, 2013; Lissidini, 2017).…”

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Direct democracy and equality: A global perspective

Krämling¹,

Geißel

Rinne

et al. 2022

International Political Science Review

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Direct democracy is seen as a potential cure to the malaise of representative democracy. It is increasingly used worldwide. However, research on the effects of direct democracy on important indicators like socio-economic, legal, and political equality is scarce, and mainly limited to Europe and the US. The global perspective is missing. This article starts to close this gap. It presents descriptive findings on direct democratic votes at the national level in the (partly) free countries of the Global South and Oceania between 1990 and 2015. It performs the first comparative analysis of direct democracy on these continents. Contradicting concerns that direct democracy may be a threat to equality, we found more bills aimed at increasing equality. Likewise, these votes produced more pro- than contra-equality outputs. This held for all continents as well as for all dimensions of equality.

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“…It is worthy of notice that between 1848 and 2010 the instruments were used 570 times. 13 Even though other countries have systems resembling direct democracy, they cannot be compared due to the Swiss system due to its specific nature and complex grass-roots decision-making (Kost, 2008).…”

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The Swiss Model of Direct Democracy

Matyja¹

2019

TSSJ

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Due to the challenges that modern representative democracy is facing, citizens and politicians of various countries are looking for new solutions and ways to ensure the optimal functioning of their political and decision making system. In this context, Switzerland appears to be a country relatively immune to the current crisis. Why is that? As a direct democracy where the rule of the people remains the fundamental principle, it provides its citizens with instruments: referendum, popular initiative, popular veto, which allow them to resolve any problems that arise both on the national and local level. The essential characteristic of the Swiss system, which is also its main strength, is that unlike other European democracies it grants its citizens full power over their homeland, making them the actual sovereign. The author of this article discusses various aspects of the Swiss model of democracy and suggests that it offers the best solutions for the optimal development of any country.

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Direkte Demokratie in Deutschland

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Collective memory and social media: Fostering a new historical consciousness in the digital age?

Collective memory and social media: Fostering a new historical consciousness in the digital age?

Direct democracy and equality: A global perspective

The Swiss Model of Direct Democracy

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