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ZusammenfassungDie folgende Untersuchung prüft Joachim Raschkes Theorie vom Wechsel politischer Paradigmen am Abstimmungsverhalten des Kantons Basel‐Landschaft. Danach sollte sich ein Übergang vom "Herrschafts‐" zum "Verteilungsparadigma" sowie Hinweise dafür zeigen, dass wir uns gegenwärtig in einer Phase befinden, in der sich das "Paradigma der Lebensweise" durchsetzt. Der Aufsatz thematisiert mit den politischen Paradigmen und dem Abstimmungsverhalten inhaltliche Aspekte der politischen Kultur des Kantons Basel‐Landschaft. Indem die Analyse die Stimmbeteiligung, die Ja/Nein‐Stimmen‐Differenz und inhaltlich bestimmte Abstimmungsgruppen berücksichtigt, greift sie auf Methoden der älteren Abstimmungsforschung in der Schweiz zurück. Der empirische Befund widerspricht Raschkes Thesen nicht. Parallel zur Durchsetzung des "Verteilungspardigmas" in der Zwischenkriegszeit schwächt sich die Auseinandersetzung um Herrschaftsfragen ab. Hinweise auf einen erneuten Paradigmenwechsel sind zu beobachten. Allerdings zeichnen sich erst Konturen eines neuen Paradigmas ab. Ob es sich um das von Raschke postulierte "Paradigma der Lebensweise" handelt, ist eine vorläufig offene Frage. Die Antwort wird aus den gegenwärtigen Kämpfen um die institutionelle Ausgestaltung der "Standorte" resultieren.

This article applies coincidence analysis ( CNA), a Boolean method of causal analysis presented in Baumgartner (2009a), to configurational data on the Swiss minaret vote of 2009. CNA is related to qualitative comparative analysis (QCA) (Ragin 2008), but contrary to the latter does not minimize sufficient and necessary conditions by means of Quine–McCluskey optimization, but based on its own custom built optimization algorithm. The latter greatly facilitates the analysis of data featuring chain-like causal dependencies among the conditions of an ultimate outcome—as can be found in the data on the Swiss minaret vote. Apart from providing a model of the causal structure behind the Swiss minaret vote, we show that a CNA of that data is preferable over a QCA.

Purpose– The purpose of this paper is to analyse the effect of cantonal social policies and cultural settings (in Switzerland) on women's and men's employment behaviour. Special consideration is given to the transition to parenthood.Design/methodology/approach– Based on data from the Swiss Labour Force Survey (SLFS) this paper conducts multilevel analyses to test individual and cantonal effects on the probability of employment and on working hours. To analyse the effect of parenthood, models for women and men with children under three are contrasted with models for women and men without children or with older children.Findings– The paper documents the persistence of gender inequality in employment linked to parenthood. How the reconciliation of work and family life can be realised for women and men strongly depends on a set of policies and cultural conditions. Moreover, individual characteristics such as education or marriage are important predictors.Research limitations/implications– A shortcoming of this study is the focus on the individual employment use and not on household-level division of labour. This disadvantage is due to the design of the SLFS, which is (at present) the only available survey to allow regionalisation at the cantonal level. However, the paper adds important results to the debate about gender inequality and parenthood in Switzerland as previous research has focused only little on cantonal diversity.Originality/value– The paper connects to previous cantonal comparative studies of female employment but extends their analyses in three important ways. By analysing cantonal differences in policies and culture this paper takes the diversity of framework conditions in Switzerland into account. Furthermore it simultaneously analyses male and female employment behaviour to get a better understanding of gender inequality and parenthood.