Editing Referendum (section)

==By country==
{{Further|Referendums by country}}
Since the end of the 18th century, hundreds of national referendums have been organised in the world;<ref>{{in lang|fr}} Bruno S. Frey et Claudia Frey Marti, ''Le bonheur. L'approche économique'', [[Presses polytechniques et universitaires romandes]], 2013 ({{ISBN|978-2-88915-010-6}}).</ref> almost 600 national votes have been held in [[Voting in Switzerland|Switzerland]] since its inauguration as a [[Modern history of Switzerland|modern state in 1848]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/explore-600-national-votes_how-direct-democracy-has-grown-over-the-decades/41481992 |title=How direct democracy has grown over the decades |author=Duc-Quang Nguyen |publisher=swissinfo.ch – a branch of the Swiss Broadcasting Corporation SRG SSR |date=17 June 2015 |location=Berne, Switzerland |access-date=2016-01-28 |archive-date=2016-08-06 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160806005325/http://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/explore-600-national-votes_how-direct-democracy-has-grown-over-the-decades/41481992 |url-status=live }}</ref> [[Italy]] ranks second with 78 [[Referendums in Italy|national referendums]]: 72 popular referendums (51 of which were proposed by the [[Radical Party (Italy)|Radical Party]]), 4 constitutional referendums, [[1946 Italian institutional referendum|one institutional referendum]] and [[1989 Italian advisory referendum|one advisory referendum]].<ref>{{Cite web | url=http://elezionistorico.interno.it/index.php?tpel=F | title=Dipartimento per gli Affari Interni e Territoriali | access-date=2017-10-13 | archive-date=2017-10-26 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171026045058/http://elezionistorico.interno.it/index.php?tpel=F | url-status=live }}</ref>