direct democracy

I’m writing this blog entry in respect to a Twitter exchange I’ve had. In the context of an exchange on Direct Democracy and Switzerland, it would appear that my correspondent has trawled the news for some ‘dirt’ on Switzerland and come up with a story on apartheid in Switzerland. The…

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The Swiss vote to ban the building of minarets is a surprise outcome, and believers in multiculturalism won’t like it, but the Swiss have an admirably democratic system (arguably the best in the world), based on direct democracy, which many so-called liberals fear, because it expresses the will of the…

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