dc.contributor.author | Dostal, Jörg Michael | de |
dc.contributor.author | Champod, Marc | de |
dc.date.accessioned | 2018-01-25T14:43:34Z | |
dc.date.available | 2018-01-25T14:43:34Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2015 | de |
dc.identifier.uri | https://www.ssoar.info/ssoar/handle/document/55607 | |
dc.description.abstract | The rising number of Swiss popular initiatives conflicting with international law reflects the decline of Swiss consensus democracy. A case in point is the 2009 ban on the construction of minarets, which focused international attention on Switzerland and its direct democracy. The Constitution can be amended through popular initiatives that - following the collection of 100,000 signatures and a popular vote - put demand on the executive and the legislature to transcribe the constitutional popular initiative into a law. Therefore, the Swiss Constitution might violate international law. This conflict arose due to the absence of judicial review, such as a constitutional court, and the absence of limits to popular initiatives. Even though in 1999 jus cogens, or mandatory international law, was established as a criterion to invalidate popular initiatives, this provision has so far never been applied. The article outlines how increased polarization in the Swiss political system has turned the popular initiative into a potentially destabilizing political instrument and analyses efforts to solve the elusive issue of conflicts between popular sovereignty and international law. | en |
dc.description.tableofcontents | Ⅰ. Introduction
Ⅱ. Stating the problem
1. Special features of the Swiss polity
2. The case of the popular initiative
3. Primacy of international law over national law
4. Jus cogens v. jus dispositivum
5. The absence of judicial review in the Swiss case
Ⅲ. Searching for solutions
1. Recent failed attempts to introduce judicial review in
Switzerland
2. The absence of judicial review and consensus democracy
3. Recent debates on the conflict between popular initiatives
and international law
Ⅳ. Conclusion | de |
dc.language | en | de |
dc.subject.ddc | Staatsformen und Regierungssysteme | de |
dc.subject.ddc | Systems of governments & states | en |
dc.subject.ddc | Recht | de |
dc.subject.ddc | Law | en |
dc.subject.other | judicial review | de |
dc.title | The conflict between direct democracy and international law: analysing the Swiss case | de |
dc.description.review | begutachtet | de |
dc.description.review | reviewed | en |
dc.source.journal | Journal of the Korean-German Association for Social Sciences / Zeitschrift der Koreanisch-Deutschen Gesellschaft für Sozialwissenschaften | |
dc.source.volume | 25 | de |
dc.publisher.country | DEU | |
dc.source.issue | 3 | de |
dc.subject.classoz | Staat, staatliche Organisationsformen | de |
dc.subject.classoz | Political System, Constitution, Government | en |
dc.subject.classoz | Recht | de |
dc.subject.classoz | Law | en |
dc.subject.thesoz | Konkordanzdemokratie | de |
dc.subject.thesoz | consociational democracy | en |
dc.subject.thesoz | direkte Demokratie | de |
dc.subject.thesoz | direct democracy | en |
dc.subject.thesoz | internationales Recht | de |
dc.subject.thesoz | international law | en |
dc.subject.thesoz | Volksabstimmung | de |
dc.subject.thesoz | plebiscite | en |
dc.subject.thesoz | Volksentscheid | de |
dc.subject.thesoz | referendum | en |
dc.subject.thesoz | Verfassungsänderung | de |
dc.subject.thesoz | constitutional amendment | en |
dc.subject.thesoz | Gesetzgebung | de |
dc.subject.thesoz | legislation | en |
dc.subject.thesoz | Volkssouveränität | de |
dc.subject.thesoz | sovereignty of the people | en |
dc.subject.thesoz | Völkerrecht | de |
dc.subject.thesoz | law of nations | en |
dc.subject.thesoz | Schweiz | de |
dc.subject.thesoz | Switzerland | en |
dc.identifier.urn | urn:nbn:de:0168-ssoar-55607-8 | |
dc.rights.licence | Digital Peer Publishing Licence - Freie DIPP-Lizenz | de |
dc.rights.licence | Free Digital Peer Publishing Licence | en |
ssoar.contributor.institution | SNU (Seoul National University) | de |
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dc.type.stock | article | de |
dc.type.document | Zeitschriftenartikel | de |
dc.type.document | journal article | en |
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