Henrik, Christoffersen; Beyeler, Michelle; Eichenberger, Reiner; Nannestad, Peter; Paldam, Martin (2013). The Good Society. A Comparative Study of Denmark and Switzerland. Berlin: Springer 10.1007/978-3-642-37238-4
Full text not available from this repository. (Request a copy)Denmark and Switzerland are small and successful countries with exceptionally content populations. However, they have very different political institutions and economic models. They have followed the general tendency in the West toward economic convergence, but both countries have managed to stay on top. They both have a strong liberal tradition, but otherwise their economic strategies are a welfare state model for Denmark and a safe haven model for Switzerland. The Danish welfare state is tax-based, while the expenditures for social welfare are insurance-based in Switzerland. The political institutions are a multiparty unicameral system in Denmark, and a permanent coalition system with many referenda and strong local government in Switzerland. Both approaches have managed to ensure smoothly working political power-sharing and economic systems that allocate resources in a fairly efficient way. To date, they have also managed to adapt the economies to changes in the external environment with a combination of stability and flexibility.
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Book (Monograph) |
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03 Faculty of Business, Economics and Social Sciences > Social Sciences > Institute of Political Science |
UniBE Contributor: |
Beyeler, Michelle |
Subjects: |
300 Social sciences, sociology & anthropology > 320 Political science 300 Social sciences, sociology & anthropology > 330 Economics |
ISBN: |
978-3-642-37238-4 |
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Springer |
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English |
Submitter: |
Michelle Beyeler |
Date Deposited: |
07 Aug 2014 15:40 |
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05 Dec 2022 14:35 |
Publisher DOI: |
10.1007/978-3-642-37238-4 |
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Uncontrolled Keywords: |
Comparative Economics, Happiness Studies, Institutional Equivalence, Public Choice, Social Welfare |
URI: |
https://boris.unibe.ch/id/eprint/54274 |
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