Swiss Politics for Complete Beginners - 2nd edition

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Filigrane

Année de parution:
2015

ISBN-13: 9782832106877

<p><b>If you need to learn quickly and efficiently about Switzerland, this essay is made for you</b><br/><br/>Do you want to understand why the Swiss seem to spend their time voting on every imaginable issue?<br/>Why the housing shortage is so acute?<br/>Why Switzerland may be the only democratic country that has no majority and opposition? <br/>Why shops close so early?<br/>And you don’t want it explained in a scholarly way, as you are more interested in the spirit than in the letter?<br/>This is your book.<br/><br/><b>A straight-to-the-point essay that will provide you with key elements to understand this small but complex country that is Switzerland</b><br/><br/><!--StartFragment--><span style="font-size: 14px;float: none;">EXTRAIT</span><br style="font-size: 14px;"/><br style="font-size: 14px;"/><span style="font-size: 14px;float: none;">"“Who in the room knows the name of the Swiss president?”</span><br style="font-size: 14px;"/><span style="font-size: 14px;float: none;">That’s the question I asked a group of three hundred expatriates living in Geneva area at the beginning of a “Swiss Politics for Dummies” seminar in June, 2009. Around 10 to 15% of them raised their hands. About what I’d expected. And certainly not a bad score: these were people curious about Swiss politics. Enough, at least, to sacrifice an entire evening to listen to a lecture about it. With another group, things could have been much worse.</span><br style="font-size: 14px;"/><span style="font-size: 14px;float: none;">I don’t blame them. All the puzzled looks following my seemingly simple question reminded me of a ride on the Cairo underground a few years earlier. It was the final years of Hosni Mubarak era."</span><!--EndFragment--><br/><br/>ABOUT THE AUTHOR<br/><br/><b>Pierre Cormon</b> is a journalist and writer from Geneva, as well as an active member of the expats network glocals.com. He has written three books of fiction, in French.<br/></p>