The issue of European integration is of utmost importance for contemporary Swiss politics, as underscored by the presence of three decision-making processes relating to bilateral agreements with the EU, and two additional processes with a strong European dimension (the telecommunication act and the immigration law), among the 11 most important processes of the early 2000s. Previous chapters have highlighted substantial differences between domestic and Europeanized decision-making processes in terms of institutional design and decision-making structures. Chapters 2 and 3 suggest that the peculiarities of the three decision-making processes relating to bilateral agreements go along with specific power configurations among political actors. Chapter 5 draws our attention to the impact of Europeanization on the specific decision-making structure at work in a given policy process.
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Fischer, M., Sciarini, P., & Traber, D. (2015). Europeanization, Institutional Changes and Differential Empowerment. In Challenges to Democracy in the 21st Century (pp. 139–157). Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137508607_7
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