Gregory A. Fossedal
Direct Democracy in Switzerland
2002
Si te theatre est petit, le spectacle a done de la grandeur.-- Alexis de Tocqueville
Contents
Foreword: Alfred R. Berkeley III ix Preface: Richard Holbrooke xv Part 1. Conception 1. Pilgrimage 3 Part 2. History 2. 1291 11 3. Willensnation 19 4. Geodeterminism 29 Part 3. Institutions 5. Constitution 43 6. Executives Branch 51 7. Judiciary 69 8. Parliament 75 9. Referendum 87 10. Communities 117 Part 4. Issues 11. Education 135 12. Taxes 145 13. Crime 155 14. Welfare 171 15. Press l81 16. Family 193 17. Army 205 18. Switzerland Accused 213 19. Diversity 233 Part 5. L'Idee Suisse 20. The End of History
and the Next Citizen251 Bibliography 271 Index 279 Figures and Tables
- Figure 3.1: The low of goods, people, and ideas in Western Europe -- roughly 1200 to the present. The core: Switzerland
- Figure 3.2: The Growth of Willensnation (snapshot from 1291, 1353, and 1999)
- Table 4.1: Swiss Religious Wars
- Table 5.1: Constitutions at a Glance: Provisions for Selected Countries
- Table 6.1: Military Crises and the Swiss Executive
- Table 7.1: Supreme Courts Compared
- Table 8.1: Salaries for Legislators (ECU per month)
- Table 9.1: Direct Democracy in Switzerland
- Table 10.1: Communities in Contrast: Decision-Making Level and Method for Selected Acts
- Figure 11.1: Math Performance by Country
- Table 11.1: Swiss Schools Compared
- Figure 11.2: Education Bureaucracy Index
- Table 12.1: Personal Income Tax Rates by Country
- Figure 13.1: Murder Rates by Country
- Figure 13.2: Rape Crimes Per 1 Million Persons
- Figure 13.3: Total Drug Offenses and Drug Trafficking Rates
- Table 13.1: Criminal Justice Spending by Level of Government
- Figure 13.4: Total Drug Arrests in Zürich City
- Figure 13.5: Drug Seizures by Zurich Police (cantonal and city, combined)
- Figure 14.1: Average Combination of Social Welfare and Assistance by Cantons
- Figure 15.1: Comparison of the Number of Newspapers, Radio Stations, and Television Stations by Language
- Table 16.1: The Families of Nations (selected comparative statistics)
- Table 16.2: Teen Pregnancy, Birth, and Abortion Rates
- Figure 16.1: Swiss Women's Wages, 1940-2000
- Figure 18.1: Swiss National Bank Gold Purchases from German Reichsbank
- Table 18.1: Meeting the Nazi Threat Military Spending per Capita, 1935
- Table 18.2: Havens from the Holocast Jewish Refugees from Germany Accepted per 1 Million Persons in Country's 1930 Population
- Figure 19.1: Reasons for Pride in Being Swiss
- Table 20.1: Sovereign Acts in Direct and Representative Democracies
- Table 20.2: How "The People" Are Heard -- Direct versus Representative Democracy