The Oxford Handbook of Swiss Politics

Patrick Emmenegger is Professor of Comparative Political Economy and Public Policy at the University of St. Gallen. His research focuses on the political economy of welfare and skills, labour market regulation, industrial relations, democratization, state building, the politics of taxation, and institutional theory. Flavia Fossati is Assistant Professor for Inequality and Integration Studies at the University of Lausanne and at the Swiss Centre of Expertise in Life Course Research (CIR-LIVES). Her research interests include social and immigration policies, deservingness and welfare state chauvinism, and survey experiments. Silja Häusermann is Professor of Political Science at the University of Zurich. She studies welfare state politics and party system change in advanced capitalist democracies. She directs the ERC-project 'welfarepriorities' and is the co-director of the UZH University Research Priority Programme 'Equality of Opportunity'. Yannis Papadopoulos is Professor of Swiss Politics and Public Policy at the Institute of Political Studies, University of Lausanne and a member of the Laboratory for Analysis and Public Policy. His research concentrates on recent developments in Swiss policy-making and on the broader implications of governance transformations for accountability and democracy. Pascal Sciarini is Professor of Swiss and Comparative politics and Dean of the School of Social Sciences at the University of Geneva. His main research topics are decision-making processes, direct democracy, Europeanization, and electoral behaviour. Adrian Vatter is Full Professor of Political Science (Swiss Politics) at the Institute of Political Science, University of Bern. His research explores Swiss politics, federalism, direct democracy, consensus democracy, sub-national politics, and comparative public policy.

1: Patrick Emmenegger, Flavia Fossati, Silja Häusermann, Yannis Papadopoulos, Pascal Sciarini, and Adrian Vatter: Introduction
Part I. Foundations
2: Wolf Linder and Sean Mueller: Switzerland: A Paradigmatic Case of Political Integration
3: Irène Herrmann: The Historical and Institutional Formation of Swiss Political Culture
4: Markus Freitag and Alina Zumbrunn: The Political Culture of Switzerland in Comparative Perspective
5: Daniel Oesch: The Structural Shifts in Switzerland's Economy and Society, 2000-2020
6: Thomas Bernauer and Stefanie Walter: Switzerland's Position in Europe and the World
7: Delia Zollinger and Denise Traber: The Ideological Space in Swiss Politics: Voters, Parties, and Realignment
Part II. Institutions
8: Adrian Vatter: Federalism
9: Isabelle Stadelmann-Steffen and Lucas Leemann: Direct Democracy
10: Stefanie Bailer and Sarah Bütikofer: Swiss Parliament
11: Yannis Papadopoulos and Fritz Sager: The Federal Government
12: Martina Flick Witzig, Christine Rothmayr Allison, and Frédéric Varone: The Judicial System
Part III. Cantons and Municipalities
13: Adrian Vatter: Cantons
14: Andreas Ladner and Nicolas Keuffer: Swiss Municipalities
15: Daniel Kübler: Metropolitan Areas
Part IV. Actors
16: Frédéric Varone and David Giauque: Federal Administration
17: Andreas Ladner, Daniel Schwarz, and Jan Fivaz: Political Parties and Party Systems in Switzerland
18: André Mach and Steven Eichenberger: Interest Groups
19: Marco Giugni: Social Movements
20: Regula Hänggli and Alexandra Feddersen: Media and Political Communication
Part V. Elections and Votes
21: Georg Lutz and Anke Tresch: National Elections
22: Pascal Sciarini and Anke Tresch: Direct Democratic Votes
23: Fabrizio Gilardi and Alexander H. Trechsel: Digital Democracy
Part VI. Decision-Making Processes
24: Pascal Sciarini: Decision-Making Process
25: Andreas Balthasar: The Implementation and Evaluation of Public Policies
Part VII. Public Policies
26: Laurent Goetschel: Foreign Policy
27: Fabio Wasserfallen: Switzerland and the European Union
28: Andreas Wenger: Swiss Security Policy and Politics
29: Patrick Emmenegger: Economic Policy
30: Roy Gava: Banking and the Swiss Financial Centre
31: Fritz Sager and David Kaufmann: Infrastructure Policy: Transport and Energy
32: Anja Giudici and Patrick Emmenegger: Education Policy
33: Lukas Baschung and Jean-Philippe Leresche: Research, Technology, and Innovation Policies
34: Karin Ingold and Stéphane Nahrath: Environmental and Spatial Planning Policy
35: Sandra Lavenex: Migration Policy
36: Anita Manatschal: Integration Policy
37: Giuliano Bonoli and Flavia Fossati: Social Policy
38: Philipp Trein, Christian Rüefli, and Adrian Vatter: Health Policy
39: Silja Häusermann and Reto Bürgisser: Family Policy
40: Isabelle Engeli: Gender and Equality+ Policy
Part VIII. Epilogue
41: Rahel Freiburghaus and Sean Mueller: Switzerland quo vadis? Current Challenges and Potential Solutions for Swiss Politics
42: Herbert Obinger: An Outside Perspective on Swiss Politics: How Successful is Switzerland's Political System?
43: Daniel Bochsler: Chocolate Democracy