Called "a world authority on referendums" by the Financial Times, Matt Qvortrup is Senior Lecturer of Comparative Politics at the Center for International Security and Resilience at Cranfield University and Visiting Fellow at the Institute of Contemporary British History at King's College London.

"A most impressive and crucially important contribution to the comparative and historical study of nationalism and democracy." (Arend Lijphart, former President of the American Political Science Association) "A valuable and comprehensive study of a much-too-neglected subject, both for democratic theory and for conflict management." (Donald L. Horowitz, Duke University)

• IntroductionChapter 1. The History and Logic of Ethnonational Referendums, 1791-1945Chapter 2. Difference-Managing ReferendumsChapter 3. Secession and PartitionChapter 4. Ethnonational Referendums in Constitutional LawChapter 5. Right-Sizing ReferendumsChapter 6. Difference-Eliminating Referendums: E Pluribus Unum?Chapter 7. EU Referendums: Nationalism and the Politics of Supranational IntegrationChapter 8. Regulation of Ethnonational Referendums: A Comparative OverviewConclusion. Patterns and Tendencies in Ethnonational ReferendumsAppendix. Legislation and LitigationNotesBibliographyIndexAcknowledgments

Called "a world authority on referendums" by the Financial Times, Matt Qvortrup is Senior Lecturer of Comparative Politics at the Center for International Security and Resilience at Cranfield University and Visiting Fellow at the Institute of Contemporary British History at King's College London.

"A most impressive and crucially important contribution to the comparative and historical study of nationalism and democracy." (Arend Lijphart, former President of the American Political Science Association) "A valuable and comprehensive study of a much-too-neglected subject, both for democratic theory and for conflict management." (Donald L. Horowitz, Duke University)

• IntroductionChapter 1. The History and Logic of Ethnonational Referendums, 1791-1945Chapter 2. Difference-Managing ReferendumsChapter 3. Secession and PartitionChapter 4. Ethnonational Referendums in Constitutional LawChapter 5. Right-Sizing ReferendumsChapter 6. Difference-Eliminating Referendums: E Pluribus Unum?Chapter 7. EU Referendums: Nationalism and the Politics of Supranational IntegrationChapter 8. Regulation of Ethnonational Referendums: A Comparative OverviewConclusion. Patterns and Tendencies in Ethnonational ReferendumsAppendix. Legislation and LitigationNotesBibliographyIndexAcknowledgments

Called "a world authority on referendums" by the Financial Times, Matt Qvortrup is Senior Lecturer of Comparative Politics at the Center for International Security and Resilience at Cranfield University and Visiting Fellow at the Institute of Contemporary British History at King's College London.

"A most impressive and crucially important contribution to the comparative and historical study of nationalism and democracy." (Arend Lijphart, former President of the American Political Science Association) "A valuable and comprehensive study of a much-too-neglected subject, both for democratic theory and for conflict management." (Donald L. Horowitz, Duke University)

• IntroductionChapter 1. The History and Logic of Ethnonational Referendums, 1791-1945Chapter 2. Difference-Managing ReferendumsChapter 3. Secession and PartitionChapter 4. Ethnonational Referendums in Constitutional LawChapter 5. Right-Sizing ReferendumsChapter 6. Difference-Eliminating Referendums: E Pluribus Unum?Chapter 7. EU Referendums: Nationalism and the Politics of Supranational IntegrationChapter 8. Regulation of Ethnonational Referendums: A Comparative OverviewConclusion. Patterns and Tendencies in Ethnonational ReferendumsAppendix. Legislation and LitigationNotesBibliographyIndexAcknowledgments