Gonzalez-Ocantos, Ezequiel and Melendez, Carlos  <br/><br/>
Rethinking the role of issue-voting in referenda: Conjoint and vote choice analysis of perfences for constructional change in Chile 

 - Comparative Politics   
 - 56(2), Jan, 2024: p.219-242 
<br/><br/> The literature on referenda features a lively debate between those who argue that these elections are dominated by issue voting and those who assert that second order con supernatants have the upper hand, From a normative point of view, this disagreement a hardly trivial. It realties to the broader question of whether referenda re concave to some degree of robust democratic deliberation and informed citizen participation or are prone to being hijacked and distorted by short term political dynamics. – Reproduced