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How a sustainable fiscal policy can be performed in a federal system is not only a Swiss problem but is also discussed in other federal countries like Germany and Austria, and in the European Union. Contrary to most other countries, the Swiss Fiscal system is characterised by an extensive fiscal...
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This paper investigates whether petition signing campaigns for popular initiatives constitute a partisan campaigning … cost. The analysis is based on the complete sample of Swiss federal initiatives between 1978 and 2000 with aggregate voting … data at state level. The results suggest that initiatives collecting many signatures yield higher approval rates at the …
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