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The Intelligibility of Referendum Issues and the Opportunities to Inform Voters. Comparative Observations with Special Regard to Hungary

open access: yesAnnales Universitatis Mariae Curie-Skłodowska. Sectio K, Politologia, 2019
The intelligibility of initiative proposals is of utmost importance in case of direct democratic decisions. This study sums up the tools by means of which voters are informed about referendum issues in countries or states with well developed direct ...
László Komáromi, Gabriella Antalicz
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“Like a Big Cool Family” – Smoothening Out Diversity Within the Police

open access: yesSwiss Journal of Sociology, 2022
This article discusses narratives on diversity within two Swiss police corps. In biographical-narrative interviews, police officers smooth out diversity by neutralizing, externalizing and dosing differences. The experience of being different and speaking
Pasche Nathalie
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The Violent Legacy of Conflict: Evidence on Asylum Seekers, Crime, and Public Policy in Switzerland

open access: yesThe American Economic Review, 2019
We study empirically how past exposure to conflict in origin countries makes migrants more violence-prone in their host country, focusing on asylum seekers in Switzerland. We exploit a novel and unique dataset on all crimes reported in Switzerland by the
M. Couttenier   +3 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

LABA/LAMA combinations versus LAMA monotherapy or LABA/ICS in COPD : a systematic review and meta-analysis [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
Acknowledgments The meta-analysis work was performed by Guruprasad Rao KS and Sharanbasappa Durg of Molecular Connections (P) Ltd, Bangalore, India, under the guidance of the manuscript authors and Novartis Pharma AG (Basel, Switzerland). Medical writing
Altman, Pablo   +8 more
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The water vapour flux above Switzerland and its role in the August 2005 extreme precipitation and flooding

open access: yesMeteorologische Zeitschrift, 2013
The water budget approach is applied to an atmospheric box above Switzerland (hereafter referred to as the “Swiss box”) to quantify the atmospheric water vapour flux using ECMWF ERA-Interim reanalyses.
Ernest N'dri Koffi   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Ideological Boundary-Making: Representing Immigrants in an Anti-Immigration Party

open access: yesSwiss Journal of Sociology, 2021
How can migrant organisations affiliated to anti-immigration political parties reconcile their party’s ideology with the representation of immigrants? Based on a website content analysis, this article investigates the representative claims of a migrant ...
Bader Dina, Feddersen Alexandra
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Switzerland

open access: yesEuropean Journal of Political Research, 1992
AbstractLocal governments play an important role in Switzerland. Despite their small size and their high number, municipalities are quite autonomous and fulfil key functions in the provision of tasks and services. What is especially noticeable is their fiscal and financial autonomy.
openaire   +1 more source

Materials science at Swiss universities of applied sciences [PDF]

open access: yes, 2019
Copyright ©Swiss Chemical Society: CHIMIA, Volume 73, Numbers 7-8, August 2019, pp. 645-655(11)In the Swiss Universities of Applied Sciences, several research institutes are involved in Materials Science, with different approaches and applications fields.
Adlhart, Christian   +14 more
core   +1 more source

The (Glg)ABCs of cyanobacteria: modelling of glycogen synthesis and functional divergence of glycogen synthases in Synechocystis sp. PCC 6803

open access: yesFEBS Letters, EarlyView.
We reconstituted Synechocystis glycogen synthesis in vitro from purified enzymes and showed that two GlgA isoenzymes produce glycogen with different architectures: GlgA1 yields denser, highly branched glycogen, whereas GlgA2 synthesizes longer, less‐branched chains.
Kenric Lee   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Governance in Crisis: Comparing Direct, Technocratic, and Hybrid Responses to COVID-19 in Switzerland, France, and Türkiye

open access: yesCurrent Perspectives in Social Sciences
This paper examines how different governance models-participatory democracy, technocracy, and hybrid systems-shaped pandemic responses in Switzerland, France, and Türkiye. Using a comparative case study approach, we analyze economic performance and COVID-
Soner Kıstak
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