The Ideological Drivers Behind the Support for the Use of Direct Democracy among Voters and Parties of Benelux Countries
Journal: Politics of the Low Countries
Year: 2023

The use of referendums has gained popularity among both voters and parties. Yet, despite the diffusion of such direct forms of democracy during the last decades in Europe, referendums remain not a very common policy instrument in Benelux countries (Belgium, the Netherlands and Luxembourg). We establish that this trend could be explained by a large consensus among mainstream (especially right) parties and voters against the use of direct democracy. Moreover, we confirmed the well-established dema