Načini prevladavanja kulturnih, jezičnih i religijskih podjela u političkom sustavu Švicarske
The ways of overcoming cultural, language, religious divisions in the political system of Switzerland

Summary/Abstract: Switzerland is the cradle of disperse political power integrated into one political system and therefore is an example of mere contrariety to the classical Westminster model of democracy.The organization of political power is designed as an encouragement for the coexistence of different social units, with basic principles that reside on the adapted election of institutional mechanisms, but with informal arrangement conceptually adequate for heterogeneous and unstable societies. Switzerland is an example of a framework and a starting point where the majority and the minority have no significance at all, while the key mechanism for the political system´s stabilization is the non-competitive rule of conflict solving within different pluralities. The construction of political institutions and the political system is conceptualized in a way that every important representative of social groups participate in the political decision making process, especially on the level of executive power. Both federalism and the elements of consociational and direct democracy are represented within this special structural concept.

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