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VoteWorld Comparative Parliamentary Roll-Call Voting Reference File
Switzerland
Basic Information:
Parliament website: http://www.parlament.ch
Size of parliament: 200 (national council), 46 (council of states)
Form of government: parliamentary
Electoral system: proportional representation
Continuous democracy since: 1848
Last parliamentary election: 19 October 2003
Freedom House political freedom score in 2004: 1
Population: 7.5 million
Research:
Hertig, Hans-Peter (1978) ‘Party Cohesion in the
Swiss Parliament’, Legislative Studies Quarterly 3(1):
63-81.
Lanfranchi, Prisca and Ruth Lüthi (1999) ‘Cohesion
of Party Groups and Interparty Conflict in the Swiss Parliament: Roll
Call Voting in the National Council’, in Shaun Bowler, David M.
Farrell and Richard S. Katz (eds) Party Discipline and Parliamentary
Government, Columbus: Ohio State Press.
Data:
Contact: Simon Hug (University of St. Gallen)
Contact Person: Heddy Riss
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