Bibliograph

Why Switzerland?, Jonathan Steinberg, University of Pennsylvania

Type

Label

Why Switzerland?, Jonathan Steinberg, University of Pennsylvania

Language

eng

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Why Switzerland?

Medium

electronic resource

Nature of contents

dictionaries

Oclc number

941874819

Responsibility statement

Jonathan Steinberg, University of Pennsylvania

Series statement

Cambridge Social Sciences eBooks

Summary

Revised and completely updated edition of Jonathan Steinberg's classic account of Switzerland's unique political and economic system. Why Switzerland? examines the complicated voting system that allows citizens to add, strike out, or vote more than once for candidates, with extremely complicated systems of proportional representation; a collective and consensual executive leadership in both state and church; and the creation of the Swiss idea of citizenship, with tolerance of differences of language and religion, and a perfectionist bureaucracy which regulates the well-ordered society. This third edition tries to test the flexibility of the Swiss way of politics in the globalized world, social media, the huge expansion of money in world circulation and the vast tsunamis of capital which threaten to swamp it. Can the complex machinery that has maintained Swiss institutions for centuries survive globalization, neo-liberalism and mass migration from poor countries to rich ones?--, Provided by publisher

Table Of Contents

Why Switzerland? -- History -- Politics -- Language -- Wealth -- Religion -- Why Italian Switzerland? -- Switzerland and the European Union -- The crisis of Swiss identity

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