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Introduction to the Special Issue “The 2019 Swiss National Elections”
Author(s) -
Giger Nathalie,
Traber Denise,
Tresch Anke
Publication year - 2022
Publication title -
swiss political science review
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.632
H-Index - 30
eISSN - 1662-6370
pISSN - 1424-7755
DOI - 10.1111/spsr.12532
Subject(s) - variety (cybernetics) , immigration , political science , representation (politics) , competition (biology) , stock (firearms) , political economy , regional science , sociology , positive economics , law , economics , geography , politics , ecology , archaeology , artificial intelligence , computer science , biology
This Special Issue brings together a large variety of contributions dealing with the influence of issues and issue competition, the structure of attitudes towards immigration and international cooperation and a series of non‐policy factors such as campaign consultants and the rise of female representation in Switzerland. In this introduction we place the contributions in the broader framework of current debates in the international literature and stress the substantial and methodological innovations of the articles. Last, we offer some more general thoughts on almost 30 years of Swiss electoral research taking stock of the historical development.