Political Change in Switzerland: From Stability to Uncertainty

ISBN-13: 9781138386440 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 196 str.

Clive H. Church

Opis

This title explains the striking recent internal and external political developments in Switzerland, an important but surprisingly little known and often misunderstood country.

Recenzje

"Church draws a rich and very detailed picture of 40 years of Swiss politics, as a historian occasionally referring to roots of the past. In many respects, the account on Political Change is in line with Swiss academics’ views, while in others it opens new perspectives. The chapters on the establishment’s response to populism and on the negotiations between Brussels and Bern are particularly sober and reveal illusionary positions of the government, and of Euroskeptics and Europhiles as well."
Wolf Linder, Prof. em. University of Bern, Swiss Political Science Review, 2017 March

Spis treści

1. Introduction; 2. The Sonderfall Schweiz and Swiss Domestic Politics; 3. The Sonderfall Abroad: Foreign Policy and European Community Relations; 4. An Unsettled Society: Globalization and Socio-Economic Change; 5. A New Place in the World?; 6. The Populist Turn; 7. The Social Basis of the Populist Challenge; 8. The Political Strategies of Swiss Populism; 9. The Establishment Response; 10. Questions about Foreigners; 11. European Questions; 12. Retrospect and Prospects; Bibliography

O autorze

Clive H. Church is Emeritus Professor of European Studies at the University of Kent in Canterbury, England. Educated as a historian at Exeter and London Universities, he has taught History, European Studies and Politics at Trinity College Dublin, the University of Lancaster and, finally, at the University of Kent. He has been visiting and working on Switzerland since 1971. He is the author of The Politics and Government of Switzerland (Palgrave, 2004), an edited volume on Switzerland and the European Union (Routledge, 2007) and (with Randy Head) of A Concise History of Switzerland (Cambridge, 2013) together with a large number of articles, contributions and monitoring reports on Switzerland. He has also written widely on European history, integration and the EU treaties.