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Buhari’s victory in Nigerian election has global significance

This content was published on Apr 8, 2015 Four years after the Jasmin revolution Tunisia has a modern constitution, a freely elected parliament and president – and also a new coalition government. But the "Arab world's first modern democracy" is challenged in its foundations by the deadly attack on the National Museum.

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Are card-carrying party stalwarts a dying breed?

This content was published on Apr 8, 2015 Up until the 1970s there were about 50,000 members, and at the end of 2013 there were not much more than 30,000 left. We are talking primarily about the members of the Social Democratic Party, which in four decades has lost about 40% of its paid-up membership. The shrinking of the party’s grassroots seems to…

Democracy

Poll finds Swiss wary of political change

This content was published on Mar 31, 2015 Fear for the economy could see Swiss citizens sticking to the political status quo in parliamentary elections in October, a survey shows.

Democracy

Swiss pledge aid for Kyrgyz elections

This content was published on Mar 26, 2015 Swiss President Simonetta Sommaruga and Foreign Minister Didier Burkhalter assured Almazbek Atambaev of Switzerland’s continuing support of the democratic process in Kyrgyzstan, according to a justice ministry statement on Thursday. Local, parliamentary and presidential elections are set to be held in 2015 and 2017. “For these funds the appropriate equipment will be purchased,” a senior…

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Winning by losing, Tunisia style

This content was published on Mar 23, 2015 Four years after the Jasmin revolution Tunisia has a modern constitution, a freely elected parliament and president – and also a new coalition government. But the "Arab world's first modern democracy" is challenged in its foundations by the deadly attack on the National Museum.

Opinion

Democracy

A lesson for people’s rights grumblers

This content was published on Mar 19, 2015 The public does foolish things when you let them have a say; this is a common complaint in a democracy. In the late 1990s, business leaders and professors viewed voters as an obstacle to progress. Economist Walter Wittmann formulated this distrust against direct democracy in the book title, which describes direct democracy as an impediment…

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Parliament works out kinks in second homes law

This content was published on Mar 12, 2015 Swiss lawmakers have agreed on how to enforce new limits on the construction of secondary properties.

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Learning by doing

This content was published on Mar 11, 2015 How Swiss teenagers get to know the world of politics first hand, and learn to formulate and defend their points of view.

Centrist parties lack ‘initiative savviness’

This content was published on Mar 9, 2015 The Christian Democrats’ populist initiative calling for tax breaks for families only managed to garner the support of a quarter of the electorate. And the Liberal Green Party took a beating with 92% of voters rejecting its initiative on replacing value added tax (VAT) with a new levy on fossil fuels, one of the worst…

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Victory for national languages in local vote

This content was published on Mar 8, 2015 Just over 60% of voters in the central Swiss canton marked their ballots in favour of maintaining two foreign languages at the primary school level. By rejecting the proposal by the conservative right Swiss People’s Party, Nidwalden remains in line with most other cantons. The model they have adopted institutionalises the teaching of two languages,…

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