Preface

Civil Society and Commonwealth: Two Models of Democratic Republicanism

Daniel J. Elazar

Part I The Swiss Commonwealth

Communal Democracy and Liberal Democracy: An Outside Friend's Look at the Swiss Political Tradition

Daniel J. Elazar

The Covenantal Basis for the Development of Swiss Political Federalism: 1291 - 1848

J. Wayne Baker

Consociational Democracy and Corporatism in Switzerland

Gerhard Lehmbruch

The Communal Basis of Swiss Liberty

Max Frenkel

The Banner of Upright Swiss Liberty

Michael Platt

Part II Governing the Commonwealth

The Swiss Communal Ethic

Terry Nichols Clark

Democracy by Competition: Referenda and Federalism in Switzerland

Bruno S. Frey

Iris Bohnet

The Role of Semi-Direct Democracy in Shaping Swiss Federalism: The Behavior of Cantons Regarding Revision of the Constitution, 1866-1981

Andre Eschet-Schwarz

Constitutional Change in Swiss Cantons: An Assessment of a Recent Phenomenon

Hanspeter Tschaeni

Administering Government in Canton St. Gallen

Ioan Bowen Rees

Switzerland as a Model in the Commonwealth Tradition

Daniel J. Elazar

Bibliography

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