Amicable Agreement Versus Majority Rule: Conflict Resolution in Switzerland

When the German edition of Steiner’s masterful analysis of Switzerland’s political system was first published in 1970 as Gewaltlose Politik und kulturelle Vielfalt, it was greeted by the American Political Science Review as a laudable departure from conventional comparative series.“ This new edition, extensively revised and expanded, makes Steiner’s innovative study available to political theorists in the English-speaking world.”

Originally published 1974.

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