title: Sonderfall Schweiz: Willensnation (nation by will) or multicultural polity
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metadata.value: Abalian, Anna I.
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metadata.name: dc.date.accessioned
metadata.value: 2024-06-27T20:22:18Z
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metadata.value: 2024-06-27T20:22:18Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.issued
metadata.value: 2024-03
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metadata.value: Abalian A. I. Sonderfall Schweiz: Willensnation (nation by will) or multicultural polity. Political Expertise: POLITEX, 2024, vol. 20, no. 1, pp. 95–104. https://doi.org/10.21638/spbu23.2024.108 (In Russian)
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metadata.value: https://doi.org/10.21638/spbu23.2024.108
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metadata.value: http://hdl.handle.net/11701/45646
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metadata.name: dc.description.abstract
metadata.value: The article is devoted to the study of the origins of Swiss statehood, regarded through the prism
  of the political and cultural nation concepts. It traces the main stages of the Old Confederation,
  features of the formation of unique public institutions, such as direct democracy, communalism,
  eternal neutrality. Special attention is paid to the linguistic factor in the political life of the country
  and its conflict potential. The author concludes that the cumulative effect of consociational democracy
  and cross-cutting cleavages, together with institutionalized quadrilingualism, reduces
  the probability of ethno-political conflicts. Advocating the concept of “nation by will” (Willensnation)
  as the main source of Swiss statehood, the author appeals to such factors as the peculiarities of the historical development of the country and its geographical position in the environment of
  European absolutist regimes, direct democracy, “cantonization”, religious landscape, high level of
  literacy of the population, contributed to social communication, economic modernization, system
  of “linguistic harmony” (Sprachfrieden). In conclusion, it is argued that in the late 19th century on
  the basis of civil identity, the cultural national consciousness was gradually formed under the influence
  of the state patriotic discourse, which united a complex of myths, symbols and narratives
  with the institutions of the Confederation.
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metadata.name: dc.description.sponsorship
metadata.value: The research was carried out within the framework of the Russian Science Foundation grant
  RSF_SRG_2023 — 1 no. 23-28-00360 “Ethnic Federalism as a model of national self-determination:
  a comparative analysis”.
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metadata.value: ru
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metadata.name: dc.publisher
metadata.value: St Petersburg State University
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metadata.name: dc.relation.ispartofseries
metadata.value: Political Expertise: POLITEX;Volume 20; Issue 1
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Switzerland
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: political nation
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Willensnation
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: identity
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: nation-building
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: quadrilingualism
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: direct democracy
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.title
metadata.value: Sonderfall Schweiz: Willensnation (nation by will) or multicultural polity
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metadata.value: Article
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