Suchergebnisse

This article aims at analysing the specificity one of the institutions of executive branch in the Swiss Confederation as well as it aims at providing details concerning the direction of changes in composition of the Federal Council and the directions of evolution of principles applying to appointment of the Swiss government's members. This work was motivated by the fact that Switzerland is an example of a country which adopted unusual solutions concerning selection and functioning of the executive branch. As a consequence, it caused an opinion that the Swiss Confederation is one of the most stable democracies in the world. However, recent years prove that political practice translates significantly into evolution of the Swiss solutions because division of powers in the parliament contributed to a "collapse" of the so-called "magic formula" (German: Zauberformel), which guaranteed the great (and stable) government coalition and contributed to emergence of initiatives that aim at changing principles of selecting executive branch in the country