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  • Referenda in Italy are usually aimed at repealing a law.

    Italy Votes on Scrapping Nuclear Energy Giada Zampano 2011

  • Referenda on proportional representation have gone down to defeat for a myriad of reasons.

    Frogs in a pot 2010

  • Referenda and initiatives in Switzerland, embedded in its constitution, have been the long-lasting, stable political solution answering this question.

    Swiss Direct Democracy: Good; Now What About California's? Reuven Brenner 2010

  • Referenda on proportional representation have gone down to defeat for a myriad of reasons.

    Archive 2010-01-01 2010

  • Referenda are not the way to go on any question other than a simple and generally comprehensible proposition.

    Frogs in a pot 2010

  • Referenda in Italy are usually aimed at repealing a law.

    Italy Votes on Scrapping Nuclear Energy Giada Zampano 2011

  • Referenda are all about easy, black-and-white decisions.

    Hey, Montgomery voters, who wants candy? Keith Berner 2010

  • Referenda are not the way to go on any question other than a simple and generally comprehensible proposition.

    Archive 2010-01-01 2010

  • That could be a huge problem for those opposing further devolution in the next referendum because that vote will be held under the conditions of the Political Parties, Elections and Referenda Act 2000.

    Archive 2008-09-01 2008

  • That could be a huge problem for those opposing further devolution in the next referendum because that vote will be held under the conditions of the Political Parties, Elections and Referenda Act 2000.

    Oh No 2008

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