International analysis

Keywords

referendum, Centre for Research on Direct Democracy (C2D), direct democracy, report, worldwide

This part of the report provides a comparative overview of the data on national referendums worldwide contained in the Referendum Database. The comparative analysis focuses on:

• the number and share of referendums and ballot dates (9  Number and share of referendums and ballot dates).
• a trend analysis looking at individual countries and their number of referendums over time (10  Trend analysis).
• the type of referendums worldwide and referendums according to regime type (11  Referendum and regime type).
• the turnout in referendums worldwide (12  Turnout).
• the topics that were voted on (13  Political topics).