nam 22 uu 4500 10.17176/20160629-161228 DE-Verfassungsblog cr||||| 160629s2016||||xx#|||||o|||| ||| 0|eng|| 10.17176/20160629-161228 doi eng 342 23 Sandro, Paolo Author aut Sovereign and misinformed: Brexit as an exercise in democracy? Sandro, Paolo Verfassungsblog 2016-06-29 Text txt rdacontent Computermedien c rdamedia Online-Ressource cr rdacarrier Rather than criticising the Brexit referendum as a decision-making tool because ‘the people’ don’t have the necessary expertise to take decisions of this magnitude, we should question the conditions in which many UK voters were called to express their opinion. They, like many all over the world, have seen the progressive hollowing-out of those basic rights that make voting the expression of the right to individual and collective self-rule in the first place. CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 brexit democracy Direct Democracy Referendum Max Steinbeis Verfassungsblog gGmbH Verfassungsblog 2366-7044 https://verfassungsblog.de/sovereign-and-misinformed-brexit-as-an-exercise-in-democracy/ raw object