| Title: | Switzerland: World Investment Service |
| Price: | $575.00 |
| Publication Date: | May 17, 2008 |
| Source: | World Investment Data and Forecast |
| Brief Excerpt: | ... is a federal state and a parliamentarydemocracy with strong direct-democratic elements. Several national referendums are heldevery year, and the need to build sufficient support for legislation so that it can pass areferendum has led to a consensus-oriented political process. From #### until ####, the federal government was run by the four major parties: thepopulist right-wing Swiss People's Party (SVP), the centre-right Radical Democratic Party(FDP), the centrist Christian Democratic Party (CVP), and the left-wing Social-democraticParty (SP). Following the election in ####, the distribution of seats in the seven-membercabinet changed for the first time, reflecting a strengthening of the SVP to the detriment ofthe CVP in the National Council (the lower house of parliament). Then, after the ####election, the SVP moved into opposition, in reaction to the failure of parliament to re-elect the SVP's leading personality, Christoph Blocher, to... |
| Word Count: | 22621 |
| Length: | 48 Pages |
| Country: | Switzerland |
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