Referendum on Immigration in Switzerland by Vasily Gribovsky

“…The main political forces of the country (Christian Democrats, Social Democrats, Liberals, Greens), as well as trade unions and employers' associations did not support the proposal of the nationalists. …”
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Participation of Jews in the processes of Russian social-democratic movement by Oleksandr Bezarov

“…The Bund (the Union of Jewish Workers in Lithuania, Poland, and Russia) played a key role in organizing the Congress of the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party (RSDLP) on March 1-3, 1898, at which the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party (RSDLP) was founded which was supposed to unite revolutionary Marxist groups of the empire, regardless of their ethnicity. …”
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On the Distinct Effects of Left-Wing and Right-Wing Populism on Democratic Quality by Robert A. Huber, Christian H. Schimpf

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Public deliberation in the function of overcoming the democratic deficit, public debate and delineation from public hearing by Vukadinović Slobodan

“…The article analyses forms of direct democracy from its historical forms, in Ancient Greece, to the modern ones, in Switzerland and the USA. Pointing towards the modern flaws of representative democracy, which dominates the present world, the author explores the forms of citizen participation - from participation to influence, which assists the overcoming of the democratic deficit in practice. …”
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Patterns of (de)politicization in times of crisis: Swiss residents' political engagement, 1999–2020 by Lionel Marquis, Ursina Kuhn, Gian-Andrea Monsch

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Voting on Embryonic Stem Cell Research: Citizens More Supportive than Politicians. by David Stadelmann, Benno Torgler

“…Seldom or never attending church increases the probability of bill acceptance by over 15 percentage points, while supporting the Liberal Party and the Social Democratic Party instead of the Christian Democratic Party makes supporting the bill more likely for voters, suggesting that religious observance is important. …”
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Islam, politics and secularism in Bangladesh : contesting the dominant narratives by Md Nazrul Islam, Md Saidul Islam

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