Rechtse praatjes, Peter Langendam | 9789080629974 | Boeken

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Rechtse praatjes (Paperback). Hebben wij niet allemaal een hekel aan praatjesmakers? Of ze nu rechts of links zijn? Dat is natuurlijk waar, u hebt...

The West doesn't know best | The Spectator

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I’d always rather liked the Finns, until I came across the conductor Dalia Stasevska. When I asked my mother what they were like, back when I was five or six and enjoyed staring at a globe of the world, she described them as ‘drunken and stupid, but very brave’. This was, by Mother’s standards, an e...

Why is middle age so depressing? - UnHerd

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Happiness is the most important subject of scientific inquiry. But it's not easy to study

If bacteria band together, they can survive for years in space

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Tiny clumps of bacteria can survive at least three years in outer space, raising the prospect of interplanetary travel by microbial life.

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A measurement of an exotic atom’s energy levels confounds scientists

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A gap in the energy levels of positronium seems to be substantially larger than predicted, and physicists don’t know why.

De antidrillballade van de droeve moeder

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Scythe - Bordspel | Games

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Scythe - Bordspel. Scythe is een bordspel dat zich afspeelt in 1920. Een tijd van landbouw, oorlog, gebroken harten en geroeste raderen. Iedere speler...

The rise and fall of the Dutch referendum law (2015–2018): initiation, use, and abolition of the corrective, citizen-initiated, and non-binding referendum

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In 2018, the Netherlands became the first democratic country to abolish its national referendum legislation. The Dutch referendum law of 2015–2018 allowed facultative, citizen-initiated, corrective, non-binding referendums, to veto specific types of laws passed by parliament. The referendum law included an ill-suited turnout threshold that created a strategic dilemma and a psychological side effect among voters. In the three years between introduction and abolition, two referendums were triggered. After the first referendum—a treaty between the EU and Ukraine, rejected by Dutch voters—support for referendums soured among centrist politicians and highly educated, progressive voters. Despite positive experiences with the second referendum, the legislation was abolished as part of the coalition agreement by the new government. This article provides a thick description of the Dutch referendum legislation trajectory (instigation, design, implementation, and abolition) to an international audience as well as a theoretical explanation of its comparatively late introduction and remarkably swift abolition. We discuss the roles of public opinion and coalition politics in the face of constitutional rigidity. Ultimately, we draw three broader theoretical lessons from the Dutch referendum experience.

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