Description:In Direct Democracy in Switerland, Fossedal has developed a shrewd, sensitive overview of Switerlands high notion of statecraft. He details the reasons for studying Switerlands distinctive institutions, and explores the origins and development of the ancient Swiss democracy, which reaches back a thousand years. He shows how Switerland handles the political questions common to all modern societies, such as education, taxes, crime, welfare, the Holocaust. He concludes with the ongoing debate over two very different visions of democracy, direct versus representative.