referendums

基本解释

In California, for instance, voters have the right to vote on specific fiscal policies in referendums.
例如，在加利福尼亚投票人有权在公投中对特别财政政策进行投票。
It is an identity that revolves around neutrality, and, yes, an awkward tradition of citizens’ referendums.
这是一个徘徊在中立周围的身份，也是一个对公民公投尴尬的传统。
Markets are unlikely to wait for the EU to call a constitutional convention, debate schemes for integration and negotiate a text, only to see it buffeted in parliamentary votes and referendums.
市场不可能等待欧盟召集一个制宪会议，讨论一体化的计策，并形成谈判的文本，只能看到欧盟在议会投票和公投中遭受打击。

Mr Owens has thus won quite a lot of support from businesspeople for his referendums.
ECONOMIST: A tough decision for voters and Republicans in particular
Referendums would have been lost in many other countries had their people been given a say.
ECONOMIST: The future of the European Union
In Venezuela he helped destroy democracy and reduced it to mere referendums on his persona.
CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Free Fire

If a country holds a referendum on a particular policy, they ask the people to vote on the policy and show whether or not they agree with it.

公民投票
Self-determination by referendum should obey international laws under the supervision of international institutions such as United Nations, and absolve domestic laws in the meantime.
采取公民投票的和平方式要符合国际法,要在联合国等国际机构的监督之下,同时也要符合国内法的相关规定。
“公投”
PartⅡ: focusing on Chen Shui-bian authorities to promote "referendum" the history and practice.
第二部分:着重研究陈水扁当局推动“公投”的历史及实践活动。
全民公投
This thesis holds that the reasons for Irish referendum against Lisbon Treaty Irish owe to the conflict between the member states' national interests and the arrangements of supranational mechanisms.
人类政治实验室的进程为何如此曲折起伏? 本文认为此次爱尔兰全民公投否决里斯本条约,是因为里斯本条约下的超国家机制安排与爱尔兰国家利益产生了矛盾。
历史学
公决
Referendum,initiative and recall were used and had legal foundation in early American history.
美国历史早期对公决、创制和罢免有过使用和法律规定。
商业
公民投票