Part of the project Why Centralization and Decentralization in Federations?, this article
studies dynamic de/centralization in Switzerland since 1848 and seeks to account for the …

Federalism and decentralisation offer political parties the opportunity to tailor their policy-
seeking behaviour to different regional electorates. These electorates often possess different …

Language has often been associated with the political culture of citizens and certain core
values and expectations in multilingual federations. In times of crisis, the existence and …

This book offers an up-to-date assessment of the state of Switzerland–EU relations with the
aim of drawing lessons from the Swiss experience to shed light on the challenges facing the …

Après avoir évoqué les liens entre didactique du français et évaluation laissée à l'initiative
des enseignants, cet article examine le rôle que l'on fait jouer aux évaluations …

This paper explores whether language shapes political culture by examining the case of
French and a possible transnational francophone political culture. Using original survey data …

This article puts the self-interest hypothesis to an empirical test by analysing the 2004
referendum on fiscal equalisation in Switzerland. That vote put forth a series of reforms …

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This article argues that the linguistic territoriality principle cannot be considered as a general
guideline for the design of language policy but rather as a tool to find the right balance …

Cet article appréhende la qualification comme un processus normatif qui conditionne la
mobilisation des ressources naturelles par des acteurs aux intérêts et référentiels divers …