Conditional legitimacy: How turnout, majority size, and outcome affect perceptions of legitimacy in European Union membership referendums
Conditional legitimacy: How turnout, majority size, and outcome affect perceptions of legitimacy in European Union membership referendums
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有条件的合法性：投票率、多数规模和结果如何影响对欧盟成员资格公投合法性的看法
作者：
Sveinung Arnesen;T. S. Broderstad;M. Johannesson;J. Linde
这一联合研究调查了公民投票在政治决策过程中赋予的授权类型。虽然大多数公民普遍认为政府应该遵循欧盟成员国公民投票的结果，但其在公众眼中的合法性在很大程度上取决于投票率，大多数人的规模以及有关公民投票的结果。因此，公民投票是否使一项政治决定在公众眼中合法化，取决于这三个方面。
This conjoint study investigates the type of mandate a referendum confers in the political decision-making process. While a majority of citizens in general believe that the government should follow the results of a referendum on European Union membership, its perceived legitimacy in the eyes of the public heavily depends upon the level of turnout, the size of the majority, and the outcome of the specific referendum in question. Thus, whether a referendum legitimizes a political decision in the eyes of the public is conditional upon these three dimensions.