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Switzerland: Political Developments and Data in 2024
European Journal of Political Research Political Data Yearbook, Volume 64, Issue 1, Page 611-636, December 2025.Abstract In 2024, while Switzerland was no longer grappling with immediate crises, the lingering effects of an overlapping crisis remained evident. Public dissatisfaction grew, driven by perceptions that state interventions disproportionately favoured banks and large corporations, while the needs of ordinary citizens amid a cost‐of‐living crisis were ...
RAHEL FREIBURGHAUS
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Collective head of state and government system: Bosnia and Herzegovina solutions in the comparative law [PDF]
Strani pravni život, 2020 The collective head of state is one of the hallmarks of the unity of government. Still, on examples of its division, the dominance of the head of state within the executive indicates significant influence or predominance of elements of the presidential ...
Golić Darko P.
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Democracy in Deeply Divided Societies: Consociational Democracy in Bosnia and Herzegovina [PDF]
, 2021 Sanne Hupkes
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Municipality‐Level Outcomes of Direct‐Democratic Votes in Switzerland, 1866–2023
Swiss Political Science Review, Volume 31, Issue 4, Page 753-770, December 2025.Abstract Switzerland relies heavily on direct‐democratic institutions to decide on a wide range of political issues. Since 1848, more than 600 direct‐democratic votes have taken place at the national level. However, the lack of comprehensive data has limited the systematic use of these votes for research.
Patrick Emmenegger +3 more
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European Journal of Social Psychology, Volume 55, Issue 6, Page 979-998, October 2025.ABSTRACT The 17 October 2019 uprising in Lebanon marked a pivotal period of economic crisis and discontent with the ruling elite. We examined social cohesion post‐uprising by exploring political polarization between “anti‐ruling parties” citizens and “partisan/unaligned” citizens, in two surveys with a community sample (Study 1, N = 357) and a ...
Mortada Al‐Amine +3 more
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Journal of Regional Science, Volume 65, Issue 4, Page 951-964, September 2025.ABSTRACT Territorial reforms of administrative boundaries primarily aim at pursuing cost and administrative efficiency objectives, but their impact on the political engagement of local communities remains unclear. Moreover, while amalgamations have been widely studied, little is known about the effects of territorial fragmentation.
Augusto Cerqua, Dante Di Matteo
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THE REPUBLIC OF MACEDONIA, CONSOCIATIONAL (CONSENSUAL) ENOUGH?
Iustinianus Primus Law Review, 2014 The purpose of this paper is to show whether the Republic of Macedonia can be experienced as real consensual (consociational) democracy, if we consider Lijphart’s ten criteria (established in 1999). The subject of the analysis will be the performance
Nikola Ambarkov
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Radical Pluralization: Mobilizing the Multiple Self in Democratic Engagements
Constellations, Volume 33, Issue 1, Page 130-141, March 2026.
Hans Asenbaum, Taina Meriluoto
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Lebanon – an exemplary consociational democracy state and its eventual failure
, 2023 Przemysław Turek
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