Looking beneath the Surface: Differences in Decision-Making Structures across Processes

Fischer, Manuel (2015). Looking beneath the Surface: Differences in Decision-Making Structures across Processes. In: Sciarini, Pascal; Fischer, Manuel; Traber, Denise (eds.) Political Decision-Making in Switzerland. The Consensus Model under Pressure. Challenges to Democracy in the 21st Century (pp. 78-97). Houndmills, Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan UK 10.1057/9781137508607_4

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The previous chapter presented the overall decision-making structure in Swiss politics at the beginning of the 21st century. This provides us with a general picture and allows for a comparison over time with the decision-making structure in the 1970s. However, the analysis of the overall decision-making structure potentially neglects important differences between policy domains (Atkinson and Coleman 1989; Knoke et al. 1996; Kriesi et al. 2006a; Sabatier 1987). Policy issues vary across policy domains, as do the political actors involved. In addition, actors may hold different policy preferences from one policy domain to the next, and they may also collaborate with other partners depending on the policy domain at stake. Examining differences between policy domains is particularly appropriate in Switzerland. Because no fixed coalitions of government and opposition exist, actors create different coalitions in each policy domain (Linder and Schwarz 2008). Whereas important parts of the institutional setting are similar across policy domains, decision-making structures might still vary. As was the case with the cross-time analysis conducted in the two previous chapters, a stability of 'rules-in-form' might hide important variations in 'rules-in-use' also across different policy domains.

Item Type:	Book Section (Book Chapter)
Division/Institute:	03 Faculty of Business, Economics and Social Sciences > Other Institutions > Teaching Staff, Faculty of Business, Economics and Social Sciences 03 Faculty of Business, Economics and Social Sciences > Social Sciences > Institute of Political Science
UniBE Contributor:	Fischer, Manuel (B), Fischer, Manuel (B)
Subjects:	300 Social sciences, sociology & anthropology > 320 Political science
ISBN:	978-1-349-70160-5
Series:	Challenges to Democracy in the 21st Century
Publisher:	Palgrave Macmillan UK
Language:	English
Submitter:	Jeremy Simeon Trottmann
Date Deposited:	19 Jul 2016 11:18
Last Modified:	29 Mar 2023 23:34
Publisher DOI:	10.1057/9781137508607_4
Uncontrolled Keywords:	Democracy, European Politics, European Union Politics, Political Philosophy, Political Sociology, Political Theory
URI:	https://boris.unibe.ch/id/eprint/82811