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How referendums break democracies

Geoff Riley

30th March 2018

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Tim Harford considers some of the flaws in the use of referendums in the month that the Dutch Parliament voted to abolish advisory referendums.

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Geoff Riley

Geoff Riley FRSA has been teaching Economics for nearly forty years. He has over twenty years experience as Head of Economics at leading schools. He writes extensively and is a contributor and presenter on CPD and Revision conferences in the UK and overseas.

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