Commonwealth: The Other Road to Democracy--The Swiss Model of Democratic Self-Government. Edited by DANIEL ELAZAR. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2001. Pp. xv + 272, biblio, index. US$75 (cloth) ISBN 0-7391-0236-2.

Outsiders have long looked at Switzerland as a model to imitate and have tried to identify the sources of the country's remarkable democracy. The book reviewed here falls within this time-honoured tradition by presenting Switzerland as the major example of, in the editor's words, the 'commonwealth' tradition of democratic republicanism. The editor, the late Daniel Elazar, brought together a selection of articles on different aspects of the Swiss political system, ...

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