Referendum in Sweden: Specific Features of Organization and Practice

Abstract

Candidate of Judicial Sciences, associate professor, Department of Constitutional Law of Moscow State Institute of International Relations (University) of Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs The present article is devoted to the institution of referendum in Sweden. The article describes the issues related to the peculiarities of normative regulation of this institution in Sweden, procedure of organization, consequences of holding both national and local (communal) referenda. Specific attention is paid to the analysis of the referenda which have been already held in this Scandinavian country.

Keywords

• швеция
• референдум
• избирательное право
• избирательная система
• прямая демократия
• sweden
• referendum
• electoral law
• system of elections
• direct democracy