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The Political Limitations of Evidence: A Critique of the Electoral Reform Society's It's Good To Talk
Author(s) -
Cunningham Michael
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
the political quarterly
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.373
H-Index - 37
eISSN - 1467-923X
pISSN - 0032-3179
DOI - 10.1111/1467-923x.12315
Subject(s) - referendum , relation (database) , democracy , electoral reform , politics , political science , political economy , european union , sociology , law , economics , database , computer science , economic policy
The Electoral Reform Society has called for more and better quality information to improve democratic debate in relation to referendums. This article argues that, particularly in relation to the European Union referendum, this would have had a marginal impact, because much of the debate was not reducible to facts and emotional and dispositional factors were of particular significance in the campaign.