THE SWISS PARADOX: Egalitarianism and Hierarchy in a Model Democracy.
The Swiss system of direct democracy is in many ways paradoxical. The federal structure counteracts the formation of centralizing state hierarchies and protects the egalitarian representation of local political interests. Simultaneously, local political structures can have hierarchical and exclusion...
| Publicado en: | Social Analysis Vol. 63; no. 1; pp. 22 - 44 |
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Spring2019
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