This article reviews how major theorists of nationalism–from Ernest Renan to Benedict
Anderson–have tried to come to grips with the puzzle that Swiss nationalism and the Swiss …

Centripetal democracy is the idea that legitimate democratic institutions set in motion forms
of citizen practice and representative behaviour that serve as powerful drivers of political …

Using Swiss data from the 2003 International Social Survey Programme (N= 902), this
multilevel study combined individual and municipality levels of analysis in the explanation of …

Scholars are divided on the merits of ethnofederalism as an institutional approach to the
management of ethnically divided societies. For some, ethnofederalism is a potentially …

If the task of constitutional theory is to set out a language in which the discourse of
constitutional law may be grounded, a question of the utmost importance is how this …

This article examines configurations of Swiss national identity that were generated in the
course of the drafting of the 2012 Female Genital Mutilation Act, a new law that seeks to …

This article questions the notion of 'consociational democracy'. It argues that it rests on shaky
ground, empirically and conceptually. As an empirical matter, a consociation is inherently …

Radical right parties have become effective electoral competitors in many parts of Western
Europe yet failed to achieve success in others. Much recent scholarship seeks to understand …

The role of the public service in managing territorial diversity has too often been overlooked
in the literature on multilingual states. In the article, we explore the issue of bureaucratic …

Ennek a könyvnek a megírása több mint tíz éven át tartott. Természetesen ez idő alatt sok
más tudományos feladattal is foglalkoztam, és némelyik fejezetet teljesen átírtam közben …