Posted Jun 29, 2009 8:53 UTC (Mon) by Seegras (subscriber, #20463)
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Our swiss democracy certainly is better (and might be, depending on criteria, even older than the US one), but it's certainly not perfect.
We've got a lot of the same problems as the USA; tough generally in lesser extent, since we've got some more safeguards built in. (Like: A ruling council of 7 people which serves also as cabinet, instead of a president who can choose his own cronies as cabinet).