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Switzerland has a much more direct democracy than most (all?) other democracies. This means citizens often vote on things similar to ballot initiatives in the U
by tallowen 10y ago
Switzerland has a much more direct democracy than most (all?) other democracies. This means citizens often vote on things similar to ballot initiatives in the US.
In the context of basic income it means such a populist policy would be have different political barriers.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Direct_democracy#Switzerland https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Direct_democracy#Switzerland
- pif 10y ago> Switzerland has a much more direct democracy than most (all?) other democracies. Just for the record, that's not as wonderful as it may seem at a first look. Direct democracy has shown its limits some times during the last year. The fundamental issues being that you can only vote yes or no for a fixed text, while a law is usually supposed to be discussed in a parliament in every detail until an agreement can be found.
- lukebuehler 10y agoAs far as I know, a referendum can take two forms: either it's the final text or it simply is a mandate to create a law with certain parameters, the lawmakers can then decide on the exact wording.
- ahakki 10y agoThere are two kinds: 1. An addition to the constitution. The parlament then has to implement that into law. 2. A referendum on a law that has been passed by parlament. This allows the citizens to revert a parlamentary decision. There is no way to vote on a new law directly. However you can get close by just having a very detailed constitutional change that doesn't leave a lot of options for implementation open.