The popular will as expressed in a society's political culture need not coincide with whatever would be reflected in an opinion poll or aplebiscite.
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Thisplebiscite, too, should be seen in the light of that struggle.
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Thisplebiscitedemonstrates - for our purposes here - a far more important point.
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Yet the author raises an important, albeit underdeveloped theme, that of effective military civilianisation through plebiscites and controlled ' multiparty ' elections.
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The theory, in any case, proved singularly appropriate for a government that combined authoritarianism and co-optive oligarchy, legitimized by symbolic plebiscites.
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The all-importantplebiscitewas only three months away and the 'secession ' versus 'integration ' campaign was at its height.
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The idea of aplebiscitefor the region was not so remarkable.
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The authors focus on the 1988plebisciteand subsequent transition to democracy in order to claim that these domestic changes are clear evidence of the spiral model at work.
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In 1996 and 1999 two attempts to repeal the pension law by requesting a referendum and aplebiscitewere rejected by the electoral court on legal grounds.
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Less than 5% of the people have voted for independence in recent elections and plebiscites, so independence does not seem to be a likely political status in the near future.
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It is no coincidence that this programme began at the same time that the new constitution (approved by aplebisciteone year earlier) came into effect.
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Finally, the members of every society should have the right to reject or to ratify their political constitution by regular plebiscites in which each adult has one vote.
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I do not subscribe to the idea of aplebiscite.
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My one doubt about the statement is the reference to plebiscites.
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I should have opposed theplebiscitefor a number of reasons.
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