Direct Democratic Choice: The Swiss Experience

by Hanspeter Kriesi

Book Overview

Direct Democratic Choice sets out to understand how the citizens actually decide in direct-democratic votes. Author Hanspeter Kriesi has analyzed nearly twenty years of post-election surveys in Switzerland (1981-1999), which he has contextualized according to the various political issues and the relevant arguments provided by the political elites. This book's core argument is that the citizens who participate in direct-democratic votes make competent...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0739129066
• ISBN13: 9780739129067
• Release Date: May 2008
• Publisher: Globe Pequot Publishing Group Inc/Bloomsbury
• Length: 278 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.6" x 8.9"