Fellow Swiss here. I mostly agree. I think the consensus government is incredibly important. I think that style of governments lead to a system where the police

Fellow Swiss here. I mostly agree. I think the consensus government is incredibly important. I think that style of governments lead to a system where the polices stay along the center of the opinion of people more or less. That leads to some progress (voting for woman) being late, but it also leads to no share turns and extreme adoption of one position or another. Even when those positions are reversed, they often leave behind some institutional decay. Another factor outside of consensus government is the federalism of government. From outside people would not believe how federal Switzerland is. In terms of school system, you can take the train, go 5 villages over and the school system might be very different. Along with many other things that would be different. The amount of federalism Switzerland is comparable to what the US has, except Switzerland has it for areas that would be counties in the US. What this prevents is the ultra dominance of capital city regions like England or France has. Infrastructure is developed for the whole country (even if the French speaking parts endlessly complain about not getting enough, arguably for good reason). I would say, one of secret of Swiss success is simply, don't do anything really badly. Everything is somewhere between good and great. One of the things I think we are not very good at is digital government, but because the old school government works pretty good and government is pretty responsive its not as big a deal. But I would love to be Estonia level with that. This is one case were federalism makes things harder.