The Referendum in the Modern Constitution

Research Project

Project/Area Number	13620033
Research Category	Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
Allocation Type	Single-year Grants
Section	一般
Research Field	Public law
Research Institution	Osaka Sangyo University
Principal Investigator	IGUCHI Shusaku Osaka Sangyo University, Dept. of Human Environment, Assistant Professor, 人間環境学部, 助教授 (80268234)
Project Period (FY)	2001 – 2002
Project Status	Completed (Fiscal Year 2002)
Budget Amount *help	¥2,300,000 (Direct Cost: ¥2,300,000) Fiscal Year 2002: ¥500,000 (Direct Cost: ¥500,000) Fiscal Year 2001: ¥1,800,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,800,000)
Keywords	referendum / direct democracy / 直接民主制 / 国民投票
Research Abstract	This research tries to illuminate the place of the referendum in the Modern Constitution by surveying the states and the circumstances of the referendum in the French Modern Constitution. In the French Constitution, the referendum was totally rejected by the Constitution itself under the third republic, it was limitedly introduced under the forth republic and the referendum has developed under the fifth republic. But French referendum shows the danger of "referendum as administrative state tool", which in only a type of the referendum in modern constitution.