Fifteen years ago, Katzenstein convincingly emphasized the specific features of small European states to cope with their external environment: international liberalization, domestic compensation and flexible adjustment to fluctuations of international markets through democratic corporatist...

This research paper discusses the role of institutions in the rapid growth and successful international integration of Switzerland during the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. In analysing the emergence and consolidation of the institutions whose existence was crucial, the paper looks...

Lobbying en Suisse : spécificités et diversités = Lobbying in der Schweiz : Eigenheiten und Vielfalt / Gisela Hürlimann -- Lobbying and business power in corporate governance politics / Pepper D. Culpepper -- Solvente Kriegsherren, vernetzte Wirte, empfängliche Politiker : Interessenpolitik...

This paper provides an overview of continuity and change in the Swiss and Austrian political economies over the last 20 years. After outlining the different institutional foundations of economic governance in both countries (fragmented state, constrained executive power and bourgeois dominance...

The Swiss Federal Parliament has adopted in 1991 a new Stock Corporation Law, which is generally considered to constitute a big step towards more minority shareholder protection (MSP) and more transparency of Swiss companies. We argue that, even though the changes might seem limited in...