Only one country in the world--Switzerland--is a direct democracy, in which, to an extent, the people pass their own laws, judge the constitutionality of statutes, and even have written, in effect, their own constitution. In this propitious volume, Gregory Fossedal reports on the politics and social fabric of what James Bryce has called "the nation that has taken the democratic idea to its furthest extent." The lessons Fossedal presents, at a time of dissatisfaction with the role of money and privileged elites in many Western democracies, are at once timely and urgent.
- ISBN10 1412805058
- ISBN13 9781412805056
- Publish Date 30 June 2005 (first published 31 January 2002)
- Publish Status Active
- Publish Country US
- Publisher Taylor & Francis Inc
- Imprint AldineTransaction
- Format Paperback
- Pages 304
- Language English