Stories - Switzerland

Local Measures Need a Counter

Two contradicatory ballot measures teach us better than one

Radical Democrats in Desert

Diamonds and deliberation.

Photo credit: Budapest, by Jorge Fraganillo, via Flickr, CC BY 2.0 Deed

Cities Carry Torch of Democracy

In Europe, progressive cities such as Budapest, Amsterdam, Helsinki and Lausanne work to counteract autocrats...

CC 4.0 license. Demonstration in Hong Kong north coast against pseudo-universal suffrage., 2015

Make Voting Rights Universal

Truly universal suffrage doesn't exist. Let's change that.

PODCAST: The evolution of women's political power in Switzerland

That's a wrap - Looking back on the first Online Forum on Modern Direct Democracy

From 21-29 September of this year, the world's largest gathering of direct democracy activists and experts...

How the postponed referendum in Switzerland impacts citizens' initiatives

While timely and necessary, the measures to halt the spread of COVID-19 have had an enormous impact not only...

What drives citizen participation?

For seven years, Dr Klaus Hofmann has been researching legal instruments of direct democracy worldwide for...

Swiss and US democracy: Twins Separated At Birth?

No other countries in the world have such strong direct democratic people´s rights as the United States and...

Popular Votes On Strengthening Modern Direct Democracy In Ticino And Geneva

More than 100 million people across the world were called to the ballot stations on the last weekend of...