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What is the justifiable demos of a referendum on state secession?
Stockholm University, Faculty of Social Sciences, Department of Political Science.ORCID iD: 0000-0001-5051-5836
2022 (English)In: Ethics, Politics & Society, ISSN 2184-2574, Vol. 5, no 1, p. 47-70Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]

The predominant practice for enfranchisement in referendums on state secession only grants a vote to residents of the secessionist unit, while referendums on urban secession are often all-inclusive, in the sense of enfranchising all residents of the municipality challenged by secessionism. This paper examines the justifiability of a more exclusive practice at the state level from two principles for delimiting the demos, namely the all-affected principle and the all-subjected principle. The argument of the paper is that both these principles typically sanction an all-inclusive demos at both these levels of government. However, such a demos would carry a considerable risk of majority domination of a separatist minority at the state level, a risk that is much lower at the municipal level. The paper claims this to be a conclusive argument against applying these principles on referendums on state secession and thus for retaining our current enfranchisement practices.

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2022. Vol. 5, no 1, p. 47-70
Keywords [en]
Secession, referendums, demos, the all-affected principle, the all-subjected principle, exit, non-domination
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Political Science (excluding Public Administration Studies and Globalisation Studies)
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URN: urn:nbn:se:su:diva-234123DOI: 10.21814/eps.5.1.135OAI: oai:DiVA.org:su-234123DiVA, id: diva2:1904041
Available from: 2024-10-08 Created: 2024-10-08 Last updated: 2024-10-08Bibliographically approved

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