{"id":1646,"date":"2007-09-22T11:36:37","date_gmt":"2007-09-22T11:36:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jcm.org.uk\/blog\/2007\/09\/22\/mill-referendums-and-eu-democracy\/"},"modified":"2008-02-02T13:16:49","modified_gmt":"2008-02-02T13:16:49","slug":"mill-referendums-and-eu-democracy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/2007\/09\/mill-referendums-and-eu-democracy\/","title":{"rendered":"Mill, referendums, and EU democracy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>More from me at dLiberation &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/opendemocracy.net\/blog\/dliberation\/on_referedums\">On referendums<\/a>, looking at the motives and practicalities of a referendum on the reform treaty, and <a href=\"http:\/\/opendemocracy.net\/blog\/dliberation\/mill_and_eu_democracy\">Mill and EU democracy<\/a>, using a long-dead liberal to explore the problem of rational ignorance in the construction of a pan-European demos. (Hark at me, with my proto-academic pretensions&#8230;)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>More from me at dLiberation &#8211; On referendums, looking at the motives and practicalities of a referendum on the reform treaty, and Mill and EU democracy, using a long-dead liberal to explore the problem of rational ignorance in the construction &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/2007\/09\/mill-referendums-and-eu-democracy\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31,12],"tags":[177],"class_list":["post-1646","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-elsewhere","category-eu-reform","tag-eu-reform"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1646","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1646"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1646\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1646"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1646"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1646"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}