TY - GEN AU - Ladner,Andreas AU - Soguel,Nils AU - Emery,Yves AU - Weerts,Sophie AU - Nahrath,Stéphane AU - Ladner,Andreas AU - Soguel,Nils AU - Emery,Yves AU - Weerts,Sophie AU - Nahrath,Stéphane TI - Swiss Public Administration : Making the State Work Successfully SN - 978-3-319-92381-9 PY - 2019/// CY - Cham PB - Springer Nature KW - Politics & government KW - bicssc KW - Political structure & processes KW - Public administration KW - Political economy KW - Political science KW - Public policy KW - Legislative bodies KW - Europe—Politics and government KW - Economic policy KW - Social policy N1 - Open Access N2 - Swiss citizens approve of their government and the way democracy is practiced; they trust the authorities and are satisfied with the range of services Swiss governments provide. This is quite unusual when compared to other countries. This open access book provides insight into the organization and the functioning of the Swiss state. It claims that, beyond politics, institutions and public administration, there are other factors which make a country successful. The authors argue that Switzerland is an interesting case, from a theoretical, scientific and a more practice-oriented perspective. While confronted with the same challenges as other countries, Switzerland offers different solutions, some of which work astonishingly well UR - https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/22969/1/1007189.pdf UR - https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/30921 ER -