Direct Democracy in Europe 370-PS5-4ERACM
Konwersatorium (KON) Rok akademicki 2022/23

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2. T. Cronin, Direct Democracy: The Politics of Initiative, Referendum and Recall, Harvard University Press 1999.

3. D. Altman, Direct Democracy Worldwide, Cambridge University Press 2011.

4. L. LeDuc, The Politics of Direct Democracy: Referendums in Global Perspective, Ontario 2003.

5. S. Hug, Voices of Europe. Citizens, Referendums and European Integration, Lanham 2002.

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8. E. Kużelewska, “How far Can Citizens Influence the Decision-Making Process? Analysis of the Effectiveness of Referenda in the Czech Republic, Slovakia and Hungary in 1989-2015.” Baltic Journal of European Studies” 2015, vol 5, no. 2(19), ¬pp. 171-196.

9. E. Kużelewska, 2009, The Impact of Referendums on the Process of European Integration, “Baltic Journal of Law and Politics” nr 2 (2), s. 181-200

Knowledge:

has in-depth knowledge of the principles and institutions ofconstitutional law K_W03 - e-learning tasks

knows and understands the terminology specific to particular discipline of law K_W08 - e-learning tasks

Skills:

is able to correctly interpret and explain the meaning of specific legal norms and the mutual relations between these norms within a specific area of law K_U01 - e-learning tasks

Efficiently moves in the legal system, uses the norms of individual areas of law to solve specific problems by themselves; depending on own interests (selected specialization subjects) has extended skills to solve complicated practical problems in a specific field of law K_U05 - e-learning tasks

Social competence:

is able to independently and critically supplement knowledge and skills extended by the interdisciplinary dimension K_K06 - e-learning tasks

Participation in classes (two absences are allowed), activity and multiple choice test written for at least half of the points or distance test on Blackboard platform

Representative democracy versus direct democracy

Forms of direct democracy: referendum, popular initiative, Landsgemeinde, recall, people’s veto

Swiss experience in direct democracy

European states’ experience in direct democracy

European citizens’ initiative

Direct democracy within nondemocratic regimes

Direct democracy within weak democracies

Referenda on controversial moral and social issues

presentations, students' statements on a given topic, discussion, collective work and e-learning classes (disatance learning)