Journal article | Zeitschriftenartikel
The conflict between direct democracy and international law: analysing the Swiss case
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 the popular initiative into a potentially destabilizing political instrument and analyses efforts to solve the elusive issue of conflicts between popular sovereignty and international law.
- Umfang
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Seite(n): 3-38
- Sprache
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Englisch
- Anmerkungen
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Status: Veröffentlichungsversion; begutachtet
- Erschienen in
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Journal of the Korean-German Association for Social Sciences / Zeitschrift der Koreanisch-Deutschen Gesellschaft für Sozialwissenschaften, 25(3)
- Thema
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Staatsformen und Regierungssysteme
Recht
Staat, staatliche Organisationsformen
Recht
Konkordanzdemokratie
direkte Demokratie
internationales Recht
Volksabstimmung
Volksentscheid
Verfassungsänderung
Gesetzgebung
Volkssouveränität
Völkerrecht
Schweiz
- Ereignis
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Geistige Schöpfung
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Dostal, Jörg Michael
Champod, Marc
- Ereignis
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Veröffentlichung
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Deutschland
- (wann)
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2015
- URN
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urn:nbn:de:0168-ssoar-55607-8
- Rechteinformation
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GESIS - Leibniz-Institut für Sozialwissenschaften. Bibliothek Köln
- Letzte Aktualisierung
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21.06.2024, 16:27 MESZ
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Objekttyp
- Zeitschriftenartikel
Beteiligte
- Dostal, Jörg Michael
- Champod, Marc
Entstanden
- 2015
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