POLS 1150 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Brian Mulroney, Charlottetown Accord

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Political Science
• Course: POLS 1150
• Professor: Mark Yanisziewski

Document Summary

People voting on polices compared to voting for representatives. If it"s something people imitate called ballot initiatives. Australia: use referendum to refer to votes that are legally binding. Use word plebiscite for things that are not legally binding. Britain: just had referendum to decide if they were going to leave un (not legally binding) Bc: referendum usually binding but not always, plebiscites are sometimes binding but not always. Course definition: binding referendum, plebicites, ballot initiatives. Binding: o(cid:373)ethi(cid:374)g i(cid:374) co(cid:374)stitutio(cid:374) that (cid:396)e(cid:395)ui(cid:396)es leglatu(cid:396)e to follo(cid:449) (cid:449)ill of people (cid:862)policy of yes(cid:863) Switzerland: if they have referendum have to make changes within the three years. Non-binding: is a formal request to have opinion of public on a policy (not legally required to implement will of people) Recall vote: un electing politician in between elections. Reasons same as the reasons as to why they hold fake elections.