DIRECT DEMOCRACY AND EUROPEAN UNION DEMOCRACY CHALLENGE AND RESPONSE PROFESSOR RICHARD ROSE FBA
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1 Rose, Richard (2017) Direct democracy and European Union democracy : challenge and response. In: Elections, Public Opinion and Parties (EPOP) Conference, , University of Nottingham., This version is available at Strathprints is designed to allow users to access the research output of the University of Strathclyde. Unless otherwise explicitly stated on the manuscript, Copyright and Moral Rights for the papers on this site are retained by the individual authors and/or other copyright owners. Please check the manuscript for details of any other licences that may have been applied. You may not engage in further distribution of the material for any profitmaking activities or any commercial gain. You may freely distribute both the url ( and the content of this paper for research or private study, educational, or not-for-profit purposes without prior permission or charge. Any correspondence concerning this service should be sent to the Strathprints administrator: strathprints@strath.ac.uk The Strathprints institutional repository ( is a digital archive of University of Strathclyde research outputs. It has been developed to disseminate open access research outputs, expose data about those outputs, and enable the management and persistent access to Strathclyde's intellectual output.
2 DIRECT DEMOCRACY AND EUROPEAN UNION DEMOCRACY CHALLENGE AND RESPONSE PROFESSOR RICHARD ROSE FBA Robert Schuman Centre, EUI & U. of Strathclyde Glasgow EPOP (Elections, Public Opinion and Parties) Conference University of Nottingham 8-10 September 2017
3 2 PARLIAMENTARY DEMOCRACY: PROBLEMS OF AGGREGATION * Electors must accept a package of policies that is better than any alternative but falls short of fully representing them * National governments win a minority of popular votes and coalitions aggregate parties * Big parties aggregate different views: soft/hard, pro/anti EU * To speak of organization is to speak of bias. Schattschneider
4 3 EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT ADDS MULTI-NATIONAL AGGREGATION * Median national party has 2 MEPS out of 751 MEPs. Most MEPS spend most of their week working on collective action problems in a foreign country and working in foreign language with foreigners * Party Groups aggregate up to 40 national parties from 28 countries * Party Groups vary greatly in the extent to which the aggregation of their MEPs national commitments create cohesion or disagreement within each multi-national group * Absolute majority requires Black/Red coalition of opposites See R. Rose & G. Borz, Aggregation before Representation in European Parliament Party Groups, West European Politics, 2013, 36,3,
5 4 NATIONAL REFERENDUM OFFERS CLARITY OF CHOICE * Vote on a single issue, not a package. E.g. Remain/Leave * Dichotomous choice requires an absolute majority * Ballot can be politically binding. E.g. UK 2016 * Endorse a valued goal. BUT implementation unclear * Absolute majority requires combining votes from a cohesive protest party with a ceiling on its support and splitting vote of governing parties, e.g. Brexit 2016
6 5 EU REFERENDUMS: INPUTS TO MULTI-NATIONAL PROCESS National government EU institutions Demand Referendum Majority EU deliberation Response <Feedback Votes count, resources decide. Stein Rokkan
7 6 DIRECT DEMOCRACY vs. LEGAL-RATIONAL LEGITIMACY * Direct Democracy majority has national legitimacy * EU Treaties give legal-rational legitimacy (Weber) to EU institutions * Multi-national EU institutions can respond in their own interest to national Referendums * Prime Ministers face the Goldoni problem of serving two masters: a majority of their national electorate and a consensus in the European Council (Longer papers with more data available on request)
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