Swiss Confederation

Constitutional Origins, Structure, and Change in Federal Democracies

Volumn 1, Issue , 2005, Pages 348-380

  Schmitt, Nicolas ^a  

^a Institute on Federalism in Fribourg   (Switzerland)

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References (13)

1. Denis de Rougemont, La Suisse ou I'histoire d'un peuple heureux (Lausanne: L'Age d'Homme, 1990), p. 18.
2. William E. Rappard, Collective Security in Swiss Experience, 1291-1948 (London:George Allen and Unwin, 1948), p. 4.
3. William Martin, Switzerland: From Roman Times to the Present (New York: Praeger, 1971).
4. James H. Hutson, The Sister Republics: Switzerland and the United States from ijj6 to the Present (Washington, DC : Library of Congress, 1991).
5. See also Wolf Linder, Swiss Democracy: Possible Solutions to Conflict in Multicultural Societies (New York: St Martin's Press, 1994).
6. A well-documented example was the fiscal dispute between Vaud and Geneva, which could not be resolved through mediation. Therefore, it was the subject of an appeal under public law in the Federal Tribunal (Art. 83 OJF, ATF 125 I 458)-19 For further background, see also Nicolas Schmitt, Federalism: The Swiss Experience (Pretoria: HSAC Publishers, 1996)
7. Oswald Sigg, Switzerland's Political Institutions (Zurich: Pro Helvetia, Arts Council of Switzerland, 1991)
8. Hans Huber, How Switzerland is Governed (Zurich: Schweizer Spiegel Verlag, 1968)
9. George Arthur Codding, The Federal Government of Switzerland (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1961)
10. and George Sauser-Hall, The Political Institutions of Switzerland (Zurich and New York: Swiss National Tourist Office, 1946).
11. Benjamin R. Barber, The Death of Communal Liberty: A History of Freedom in a Swiss Mountain Canton (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1974), p. 11.
12. See also, Yannis Papadopoulos, "Connecting Minorities to the Swiss Federal System:A Frozen Conception of Representation and the Problem of 'Requisite Variety,'" Publius: The Journal of Federalism 32 (Summer 2002): 47-65.
13. Charles Seignobos, Histoirepolitique de I'Europe contemporaine, 1814-1914, 7th ed., vol. 1 (Paris: Armand Colin, 1924), p. 323.