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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
wiley   +1 more source

Arrested Development in Beirut：Migration, Security and Dilemmas of Consociational Democracy

, 2017
This article analyses two major dilemmas in contemporary Lebanon: Firstly, based on the theory of consociational democracy it identifies an increasing divide between the state that is building on a national security consensus among the power sharing ...
L. Andersen
semanticscholar   +1 more source

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, Lucas Leemann, Andreina Thoma, André Walter   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Exploring Political Polarization Between Opponents and Supporters of Ruling Parties Following the 2019 Lebanese Uprising

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, Rim Saab, Charles Harb, Rima Majed   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

The Bright Side of Breaking Up: How Territorial Fragmentation Increases Political Engagement in Local Communities

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
wiley   +1 more source

Autocratization within Ethnic-Power Sharing: Bosnia and Herzegovina between Formal Democracy and Authoritarian Practices

Društvene i Humanističke Studije
Nearly three decades after the Dayton Peace Agreement, Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH) continues to experience democratic stagnation, institutional dysfunction, and deepening autocratization. This paper examines how the post-war institutional design of BiH,
Stefan Vukojević
doaj   +1 more source

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.
doaj  

Consociational settlements and reconstruction: Bosnia in comparative perspective, 1995 - present [PDF]

, 2013
This paper examines Bosnia with some comparative insights from Northern Ireland. Both places were extremely fragile in the immediate aftermath of their brokered peace negotiations and consociational institutions, in Bosnia in 1995 and Northern Ireland in
Stroschein, Sherrill
core  

Competing Principals in a Multinational State: Legislative Behavior in Imperial Austria, 1907–1914

Legislative Studies Quarterly, Volume 50, Issue 3, August 2025.
ABSTRACT This article examines legislative behavior in the lower house of the Imperial Austrian Reichsrat, a historical legislature representing a multinational society. The coincidence of economic and center‐periphery cleavages in that democratizing state presents an excellent opportunity to examine the influence of multiple competing principals on ...
Philip J. Howe, David Steinecke, Christina Isabel Zuber   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Challenges of Democracy in Bosnia and Herzegovina Thirty Years After Dayton

Društvene i Humanističke Studije
Thirty years after the signing of the Dayton Peace Agreement, Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH) faces numerous challenges in building a stable, functional political system and a coherent society.
Selma Ćosić, Elma Huruz Memović
doaj   +1 more source