Political Decision-Making in Switzerland
By: and and
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- Synopsis
- The Swiss consensus democracy model has been – and remains – under pressure. While being a non-EU member, Switzerland is heavily influenced by European integration and exemplifies some of the crucial changes at work on the continent. Based on a rich collection of data covering the 11 most important Swiss decision-making processes in recent years, this book highlights these changes and related variations across policy domains. It examines Europeanization as a major driving factor in the strengthening of bureaucratic policy-making, and charts the decline of corporatist policy-making and reinforcement of partisan politics as a result of institutional reforms, mediatization, higher polarization among social partners and the rise of a populist right wing party. Switzerland has moved away from the ideal-type of consensus. Coalitions have become more unstable and policy outputs less predictable, yet this may be good news in terms of innovation.
- Copyright:
- 2015
Book Details
- Book Quality:
- Publisher Quality
- ISBN-13:
- 9781137508614
- Publisher:
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Date of Addition:
- 03/25/17
- Copyrighted By:
- Springer
- Adult content:
- No
- Language:
- English
- Has Image Descriptions:
- No
- Categories:
- Nonfiction, Politics and Government
- Submitted By:
- Bookshare Staff
- Usage Restrictions:
- This is a copyrighted book.
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