Clive Church

Political Change in Switzerland

From Stability to Uncertainty

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)
• Seitenzahl: 208
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. Juni 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 238mm x 158mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 434g
• ISBN-13: 9781857437805
• ISBN-10: 1857437802
• Artikelnr.: 43675339

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

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
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