Why Switzerland?

Why Switzerland?
Author: Jonathan Steinberg
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 324
Release: 1996-09-28
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780521484534

Index - p. 288-300

Switzerland

Switzerland
Author: Rebecca Rowell
Publisher: ABDO Publishing Company
Total Pages: 146
Release: 2013-01-01
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 1614808813

Explore diverse landscapes, travel back in time, and discover unique populations, all without leaving your chair! Start your international tour in Switzerland, land of Lake Geneva, the Alps, cheese, chocolate, and so much more. This colorful, informative book introduces Switzerland's history, geography, culture, climate, government, economy, and other significant features. Sidebars, maps, fact pages, a glossary, a timeline, historic images and full-color photos, and well-placed graphs and charts enhance this engaging title. Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state standards. Essential Library is an imprint of Abdo Publishing, a division of ABDO.

Direct Democracy in Switzerland

Direct Democracy in Switzerland
Author: Gregory Fossedal
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 555
Release: 2018-02-06
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1351522213

Only one country in the world--Switzerland--is a direct democracy, in which, to an extent, the people pass their own laws, judge the constitutionality of statutes, and even have written, in effect, their own constitution. In this propitious volume, Gregory Fossedal reports on the politics and social fabric of what James Bryce has called "the nation that has taken the democratic idea to its furthest extent." The lessons Fossedal presents, at a time of dissatisfaction with the role of money and privileged elites in many Western democracies, are at once timely and urgent.

Switzerland in Europe

Switzerland in Europe
Author: Christine Trampusch
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 273
Release: 2011-03-14
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1136815023

The book provides the first systematic overview of Swiss political economy in comparative perspective. It provides an analysis of major socio-economic institutions, economic actors, economic and social policies, and political institutions and their recent changes.