The conflict between direct democracy and international law: analysing the Swiss case
Abstract: The rising number of Swiss popular initiatives conflicting with international law reflects the decline of Swiss consensus democracy. A case in point is the 2009 ban on the construction of minarets, which focused international attention on Switzerland and its direct democracy. The Constitution can be amended through popular initiatives that - following the collection of 100,000 signatures and a popular vote - put demand on the executive and the legislature to transcribe the constitutional popular initiative into a law. Therefore, the Swiss Constitution might violate international law. This conflict arose due to the absence of judicial review, such as a constitutional court, and the absence of limits to popular initiatives. Even though in 1999 jus cogens, or mandatory international law, was established as a criterion to invalidate popular initiatives, this provision has so far never been applied. The article outlines how increased polarization in the Swiss political system has turned
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Deutsche Nationalbibliothek Frankfurt am Main
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Online-Ressource
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Englisch
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In: Journal of the Korean-German Association for Social Sciences / Zeitschrift der Koreanisch-Deutschen Gesellschaft für Sozialwissenschaften ; 25 (2015) 3 ; 3-38
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Recht
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Mannheim
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2015
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Dostal, Jörg Michael
Champod, Marc
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urn:nbn:de:0168-ssoar-55607-8
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Open Access unbekannt; Open Access; Der Zugriff auf das Objekt ist unbeschränkt möglich.
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- Dostal, Jörg Michael
- Champod, Marc
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- 2015
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