Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/214453 
Year of Publication: 
2009
Series/Report no.: 
CREMA Working Paper No. 2009-26
Publisher: 
Center for Research in Economics, Management and the Arts (CREMA), Basel
Abstract: 
In comparing Switzerland and Germany, this paper discusses basic but potentially conflicting constitutional principles and the problems which can arise from such conflicts and which have to be handled by a constitution. We concentrate on three central areas: (i) the tension between democracy and the rule of law, (ii) direct versus (purely) representative democracy, and (iii) competitive versus co-operative federalism, where we also discuss problems of fiscal equalisation systems. Finally, we present some proposals for a reform of the German political system.
Subjects: 
Direct Democracy
Human Rights
Rule of Law
Federalism
Fiscal Equalisation
JEL: 
H11
H70
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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