@article{2016:vetter:brgersch,
title = {Bürgerschaft, Politik und Verwaltung: Drei Perspektiven auf Bürgerentscheide und ihre Wirkungen},
year = {2016},
note = {Direct democracy in German local politics is a topic, which is widely
discussed in science and politics today facing questions of increasing
input and output legitimacy of representative democracy. At the same
time empirical knowledge about the consequences of direct democratic
decision-making procedures is rare. Based on qualitative data from
interviews with engaged citizens, local politicians and local public
administration on eight direct democratic decision-making processes in
Baden-Württemberg one can show that citizens, politicians and public
administration similarly show more positive than neutral and negative
assessments of the direct-democratic procedures, even though most of
them were related to conflict. Positive assessments are obviously
connected to the unambiguousness of the respective decision, which in
turn is connected to a high mobilization and a high turnout.
Therefore, increasing the use of direct-democratic decision-making
procedures in local politics seems to be rather a supplement to local
representative democracy than necessarily a threat.},
journal = {ZParl Zeitschrift für Parlamentsfragen},
pages = {349--368},
author = {Vetter, Angelika and Hoyer, Zora},
volume = {47},
number = {2}
}