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Why Switzerland?

Paperback • 2015 • 1. edition

Why Switzerland?

By Jonathan Steinberg

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About the book

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 lang...Show more

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9780521709552

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Cambridge University Press

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2015

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