In the context of an ever growing importance and usage referendums around globe, this article provides a comprehensive approach to analyse determinants participation in direct democratic votes. absence conclusive empirical evidence about which factors drive participation, studies tend adopt election-specific findings assume electoral turnout equally apply for referendums. Yet, strict test these...

The vote NO (a defeat for the proponents) of 2016 Italian referendum has been broadly attributed to a wave protest politics sweeping Western democracies. Given that government Matteo Renzi proposed and supported referendum, resulting against interests raises crucial theoretical question: what extent does reflect characteristics vote? To disentangle meaning impact protest, we distinguish two dim...

Agreement (CPA) in 2005 marked the end of 22 years of civil war in Southern Sudan between the government and the Sudan People’s Liberation Movement (SPLM). While officially a ‘post-conflict’ context, violence and displacement persist, and efforts to bring about a visible ‘peace dividend’ have had only marginal impact. As a referendum on independence for the South approaches in January 2011, the...

Purpose This study aims to investigate whether objective and subjective rationality affects individual voters’ use of accounting information if such voting behavior. While prior studies assume voter concerning financial performance political outcomes, this distinguishes between two types voters: rational voters (who make decisions about multiple alternatives based on information) their values, ...