This contribution addresses the input legitimacy of the British EU membership referendum of June 2016. It considers who was given a vote in the first place, and whether those given a vote could make a reasonable choice in light of the campaign. More precisely, it assesses the following four...

Re-reading Schumpeter's classic Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy in the present context is a curious but, I believe, sobering experience. A liberal and a capitalist, Schumpeter nevertheless believed the future lay with socialism. Following Weber, he maintained that the increasingly cartelized...