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Just like homebuyers in any country behave responsibly when it comes to paying their mortgages.īut another more interesting reason explaining why there are no demagogical promises, by the Left or the Right in Switzerland, could be that Swiss politicians do not have the power to make the grandiose promises that politicians in representative democracies make. One powerful reason for their high sense of responsibility is that they know they have to handle the effects of what they vote in referendums. They further from falling into that than any representative democracy. Others even say that direct democracy can easily turn into “the tyranny of the majority”, presumably incited by demagogues.

#DEMOCRACY 3 UNEMPLOYMENT FREE#

Things like “free healthcare for all”, “free education”, free this and free that, but is not like that, it is the opposite. In a country where the citizens decide, some people would expect that “populist policies” (of the right and the left) would drive referendums. This explanation makes sense we all know that most people in any country behave responsibly when they are responsible for the effects of their actions.ĭirect democracy makes the Swiss citizen responsible for the effects of the results of referendums. The Swiss say that direct democracy fosters the development of more responsible citizens. My suspicion is that Switzerland’s low youth unemployment rate has something to do with the common-sense, responsible approach Swiss-Germans, Swiss-French, Swiss-Italians and Swiss-Romansh have to issues. This shows a multicultural society can be a high performance one. While both are European cultures, they are different between themselves and also from the Swiss Germans. Switzerland’s merit is even more remarkable because almost 40% of the Swiss are French or Italian speakers. We can attribute the figures for Japan and South Korea to “cultural differences”, but what about Germany ? Another European country sharing language and much culture with the more than 60% Swiss Germans.įor some reason, Switzerland is more efficient than Germany, and not just for youth employment. Even the next best countries Japan, Germany and South Korea have approximately 30%, 80% and 254% higher youth unemployment rates than Switzerland. I only list democracies because, even if totalitarian societies had lower unemployment rates than Switzerland, which they don’t, losing human dignity is too high a price to pay.

It is interesting that the country where citizens have more political and economic rights than anywhere else in the World, again shows better management than the rest. Switzerland has lower youth unemployment rates than any other country, not just among democracies, but also all totalitarian and authoritarian regimes those who claim total economic and political control of the population by the state is good for everything. I never thought direct democracy and youth employment could be related, but perhaps they are Switzerland, the only direct democracy the World has at the local, cantonal (state or province in federal countries) and national level, the lowest youth unemployment rate in the World.

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