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The Social Choice of EU Treaties: discrepancies between voter prefernces and referndum outcomes in Denmark
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Abstract The article applies Social Choice theory to analyse new and so far undiscovered aspects of the Danish referendums on the Maastricht Treaty in 1992 and 1993. The article queries whether the amended Maastricht Treaty adopted in 1993 was, in fact, the most preferred alternative for a majority of Danish... view more
The article applies Social Choice theory to analyse new and so far undiscovered aspects of the Danish referendums on the Maastricht Treaty in 1992 and 1993. The article queries whether the amended Maastricht Treaty adopted in 1993 was, in fact, the most preferred alternative for a majority of Danish voters. A reconstruction of voter preferences regarding the political alternatives in the European Union — the Maastricht Treaty, the amended Maastricht Treaty and the Status Quo — reveals that the amended Maastricht Treaty, despite the fact that it was the Condorcet winner and won the 1993 referendum, may not have been preferred by a majority but was probably the most preferred alternative only for a minority of the electorate.... view less
Classification
Political Process, Elections, Political Sociology, Political Culture
European Politics
Free Keywords
Maastricht Treaty; referendum; social choice; voting;
Document language
English
Publication Year
2007
Page/Pages
p. 537-553
Journal
European Union Politics, 8 (2007) 4
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1177/1465116507082813
Status
Postprint; peer reviewed
Licence
PEER Licence Agreement (applicable only to documents from PEER project)