http://dx.doi.org/10.17176/20170720-105116 https://staging.verfassungsblog.de/why-do-we-need-international-legal-standards-for-constitutional-referendums/ Why Do We Need International Legal Standards for Constitutional Referendums? Kovács, Kriszta eng 2017-07-20 electronic resource text/html ddc:342 Constitutional referendum International Referendum Law State of Emergency Turkish Constitutional Referendum Verfassungsblog Verfassungsblog--2366-7044 CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 Important substantive and institutional guarantees ensure the democratic quality of the general elections. In the case of a referendum these substantive and procedural guarantees are almost completely missing. Only international soft law deals with the question of the democratic quality of the referendum. Recent experience with Turkey, Hungary and other places show that this needs to change.