LEADER 03179nam 22006135 450 001 9910473451703321 005 20251010075038.0 010 $a9783030632663 010 $a3030632660 024 7 $a10.1007/978-3-030-63266-3 035 $a(CKB)4100000011728535 035 $a(DE-He213)978-3-030-63266-3 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC6460302 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL6460302 035 $a(OCoLC)1235597643 035 $a(oapen)https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/63744 035 $a(PPN)259466247 035 $a(ODN)ODN0010073891 035 $a(oapen)doab63744 035 $a(EXLCZ)994100000011728535 100 $a20210120d2021 u| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurnn#008mamaa 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aSwiss Democracy $ePossible Solutions to Conflict in Multicultural Societies /$fby Wolf Linder, Sean Mueller 205 $a4th ed. 2021. 210 1$aCham :$cSpringer International Publishing :$cImprint: Palgrave Macmillan,$d2021. 215 $a1 online resource (xxiii, 295 pages) $cillustrations (some color) 311 0 $a9783030632656 311 0 $a3030632652 327 $a1. Introduction -- 2. Building a Multicultural Society by Political Integration -- 3. Federalism -- 4. Direct Democracy -- 5. Consensus Democracy: The Swiss System of Power-Sharing -- 6. Comparative Perspectives -- 7. Switzerland in Europe and the World. 330 $aThis open access book provides an updated and fully revised 4th edition of this authoritative analysis of Swiss democracy. It particularly explains the institutions of federalism and consensus government through political power sharing. In this new edition, the authors also address several important changes and challenges that have affected Swiss democracy, including the country's relationship with the EU, fiscal equalisation, direct democracy and the legitimacy of national referendums, territorial conflict, as well as the polarisation of party politics. Wolf Linder is Professor emeritus of the Institute of Political Science, University of Berne, Switzerland. His main areas of research are Swiss politics, direct democracy and Europeanisation. Sean Mueller is Senior Researcher at the Institute of Political Science, University of Berne, Switzerland. His main areas of research are Swiss and comparative federalism, power-sharing and direct democracy. . 606 $aEurope$xPolitics and government 606 $aPolitical science 606 $aEuropean Politics 606 $aPolitical Science 615 0$aEurope$xPolitics and government. 615 0$aPolitical science. 615 14$aEuropean Politics. 615 24$aPolitical Science. 676 $a320.94 676 $a320.9494 686 $aPOL007000$aPOL058000$2bisacsh 700 $aLinder$b Wolf$f1944-$4aut$4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut$01439569 702 $aMueller$b Sean$4aut$4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910473451703321 996 $aSwiss democracy$93601827 997 $aUNINA