Dissertations / Theses: 'Switzerland'

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Frei, Christa. "Overqualification in Switzerland." St. Gallen, 2008. http://www.biblio.unisg.ch/org/biblio/edoc.nsf/wwwDisplayIdentifier/03604212002/$FILE/03604212002.pdf.

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Walther, Gian-Reto. "Laurophyllisation in Switzerland /." [S.l.] : [s.n.], 2000. http://e-collection.ethbib.ethz.ch/show?type=diss&nr=13561.

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Hall, Peggy. "Normative Power Switzerland?" Thesis, Linnéuniversitetet, Institutionen för samhällsvetenskaper, SV, 2010. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:lnu:diva-10204.

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Gmür, Christine. "Dickens and Switzerland." Thesis, University of York, 2016. http://etheses.whiterose.ac.uk/15622/.

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The close connections between Charles Dickens’s biography, his literary work and Switzerland have often been overlooked or reduced to a chronology of travel. Yet, his deep personal investment in the country and its people manifests itself in numerous and often unexpected places in his fictional and personal texts. These references are often minor, do not necessarily correspond to traditional narratives about Switzerland and are thus easily dismissed as insignificant. Considered in their entirety, however, they allow a new understanding of Dickens’s interest in and literary reworking of Switzerland. Among his associations with the country were a number of profoundly personal experiences which visibly impacted on his work, style and inspiration. This dissertation looks at and beyond the period of Dickens’s travels to Switzerland during the 1840s and early 50s and considers both earlier and later references as well. Its approach demonstrates that already in his youth, Dickens was familiar with a particular picture of Switzerland through his reading and through various forms of popular entertainment. Too often simplified as a moment of personal and professional crisis, this study shows that his time in Lausanne was more complex and productive than has commonly been understood. It reveals that even in his later years, Dickens’s thoughts often returned to Switzerland and found literal and metaphorical expression in his writing. In essence, this thesis renders visible how Dickens’s experience of Switzerland was not merely episodic and does not stand unconnected to the rest of his life or his literary work, but was a significant and integral part of his imagination and in some ways, even his identity.

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Laternser, Martin Christian. "Snow and avalanche climatology of Switzerland /." [S.l.] : [s.n.], 2002. http://e-collection.ethbib.ethz.ch/show?type=diss&nr=14493.

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Heafford, Michael Richard. "British travellers in Switzerland 1814-1860." Thesis, London Metropolitan University, 2003. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.426595.

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The thesis examines British travellers in Switzerland over the period from 1814 to 1860. Evidence was gathered on the travellers themselves: their numbers, social pOSition, age and gender, as well as on the groups within which they travelled. The nature of the tours was also conSidered, in particular, their duration, the itineraries followed, and the responses of travellers to these itineraries. In order to build up as objective a picture of possible, evidence was sought from two different but complementary sources. The first comprised passport and other registers. These indicated not only the numbers of British visitors to the Continent in general, and to Switzerland in particular, but also furnished a range of information about the travellers themselves and their tours. Administrative arrangements relating to passport issue, and to frontier and internal controls, either required or requested from travellers details about their age, gender, social status and itinerary. At the same time, information was collected on the size and nature of travelling groups. In addition to collating and analysing this material, it was possible to examine the dates and places at which particular administrative formalities were carried out, and thereby to make at least tentative deductions about the rate of travel and the scope and length of the tour. In exploring the motivations of travellers, it was considered that hypotheses were likely to be more sound if objective evidence on the travellers themselves, and on the structure of their tours, was collected first. Register evidence had the benefit that it was based on a large sample of travellers; its disadvantage lay in its focus on individuals at particular places and points in time. Thus, it did not convey a global view of the Continental tour, nor did it permit any detailed conclusions to be drawn about how the components of such a tour, including, in particular, a visit to Switzerland, might have fitted together. In order to gain insights into the Continental tour as a whole, a second, complementary source of evidence was tapped: accounts written by visitors to Switzerland during the period under review. Although the sample of these visitors in relation to the overall number of travellers was necessarily a small one, it enabled itinera-ries to be followed with much greater precision, and suggested which were the most popular. Because images of Switzerland created during the period provided both a record of visits and a stimulus for them, a study of the images of Switzerland published in Britain during the first half of the century was added to the section on travelogues. The thesis seeks to contribute to the study of British travel in a way which is original in its combination of choice of period, of country, and of methodology. Firstly, little has been written about the British on the Continent between the end of the eighteenth century, when the Grand Tour may be considered to have ended, and the period when railways were sufficiently established to create new styles of travel, for instance in the development of 'package tours'. Secondly, France and Italy have dominated research studies into the British on the Continent to the relative exclusion of other countries. Finally, registers, which provide information about individual travellers, have not been exploited as an important source of evidence.

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Inderbitzin, Ivan. "The foreignisation process in Switzerland : the Swiss and their Ausländer." Monash University, School of Political and Social Inquiry, 2002. http://arrow.monash.edu.au/hdl/1959.1/8019.

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Naujoks, Christel. "Awareness and knowledge of osteoporosis in Switzerland /." Sydney, 2005. http://www.public-health-edu.ch/new/Abstracts/NC_11.10.05.pdf.

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Heinrich, Richard Felix. "A Gender Equality Comparison Switzerland and Norway /." St. Gallen, 2008. http://www.biblio.unisg.ch/org/biblio/edoc.nsf/wwwDisplayIdentifier/05610068002/$FILE/05610068002.pdf.

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Bättig, Reto. "The Valuation of Discount Certificates in Switzerland." St. Gallen, 2008. http://www.biblio.unisg.ch/org/biblio/edoc.nsf/wwwDisplayIdentifier/02603900002/$FILE/02603900002.pdf.

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Weiss, Marc. "Simulating historical locations of wetlands in Switzerland /." Birmensdorf : WSL, 2008. http://e-collection.ethbib.ethz.ch/show?type=dipl&nr=377.

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Nyffeler, Reto. "Female labor supply and taxes in Switzerland." Berlin dissertation.de, 2007. http://www.dissertation.de/buch.php3?buch=5102.

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Weinmann, Barbara. "Eine andere Bürgergesellschaft klassischer Republikanismus und Kommunalismus im Kanton Zürich im späten 18. und 19. Jahrhundert /." Göttingen : Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2002. http://catalog.hathitrust.org/api/volumes/oclc/50694467.html.

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Stojanovic, Nenad. "The idea of a Swiss nation : a critique of Will Kymlicka's account of multination states." Thesis, McGill University, 2000. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=33316.

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One of the most influential authors of the past decade who has tried to assess a theoretical model of defense of 'cultural rights' from a liberal prospective is Will Kymlicka. Kymlicka appears even to believe that his model of multiculturalism represents the only systematic account of minority rights that is yet available within liberal theory. He assumes that other liberal thinkers---e.g. Raz, Taylor, Habermas---'have sketched some concepts or principles which they think should govern liberal approaches to ethnocultural demands' but their views constitute, at the end of the day, 'more outlines than systematic theories' (Kymlicka 1997: 86, n. 1). This essay stems from my critical reading of Kymlicka's theory.
It is not my intention here to provide an alternative model of dealing with 'cultural differences'. My aims are much more modest. First, I want to provide a critical assessment of Kymlicka's theory by pointing out some of its conceptual ambiguities. Second, I want to discuss the case of Switzerland by defending the thesis that it does not constitute a multinational state. (Abstract shortened by UMI.)

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Eccher, Stephen Brett. "The Bernese disputations of 1532 and 1538 : a historical and theological analysis." Thesis, University of St Andrews, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/10023/2566.

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Given the relative paucity of treatments relating to both the 1532 and 1538 Bern Gespräche, alongside a growing historiography which has offered a clearer understanding of the backdrop around which these two debates were held, the focus of this research project will be to provide a comparative analysis of the recorded dialogues from the debates at Bern. This ecclesiologically focused comparison aims to discern whether the debate relating to the nature of the church at the 1538 session was merely a redundant exercise and continuation of the earlier 1532 disputation or whether the latter debate offered anything substantively new to the ongoing religious dialogue between these two groups. Furthermore, all of the respective views on the nature of the church manifest in these debates will be examined in light of the preceding Anabaptist/Reformed dialogue of the period to determine their place contextually. Having embarked upon the aforementioned goals several conclusions may be definitively drawn. First, the major ecclesiological suppositions expressed by both the Anabaptist and Reformed participants at the 1538 debate were, in fact, retained using the same core theological elements employed by their predecessors at the 1532 debate. Yet, despite this striking similarity, the independent nature of these debates must also be acknowledged. This may primarily be found in that both groups expressed their retained ecclesiologies with notable variation in things such as language, argumentative content, biblical corroboration, and illustrative evidence. Finally, both the similar and independent nature of these events will be shown to have been largely derived from the Anabaptist/Reformed dialogue already begun as the Swiss Brethren movement emerged from under Zwingli’s reform efforts in Zürich. Each of these conclusions should help to paint a more accurate portrait of not only what was accomplished through these debates, but where each stands contextually during the period.

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Meier, Christoph-Sebastian. "Uncertainty and International Correlations The Case of Switzerland /." St. Gallen, 2008. http://www.biblio.unisg.ch/org/biblio/edoc.nsf/wwwDisplayIdentifier/01664937002/$FILE/01664937002.pdf.

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Jenkner, Johannes. "Stratified verifications of quantitative precipitation forecasts over Switzerland /." Zürich : ETH, 2008. http://e-collection.ethbib.ethz.ch/show?type=diss&nr=17782.

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De, Micheli Schulthess Christiane M. A. "Aspects of Roman pottery in Canton Ticino (Switzerland)." Thesis, University of Nottingham, 2001. http://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/14275/.

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This work deals with the classification and further study of Roman coarse and thin walled pottery from the Locarno region of Canton Ticino, a district of Switzerland on the southern side of Central Alps, in order to establish a reference typology and chronology which may have wider value in Ticino and the nearer regions of northern Italy. The considered pottery comes from the cemeteries and, to a lesser extent, the settlements of the Locarno region, which contains by far the largest number of burials with datable grave-goods in the Canton. The Roman graves from the region range from the beginning of the 1st century AD to the end of the 4th century AD, with a concentration during the 1st and 2nd centuries AD. The analysis of coarse and thin walled pottery has highlighted the potential of information of these materials, considering various aspects such as forms, fabrics, decoration, chronology, origin and distribution. The analysis of the coarse pottery in the grave-goods, in association with sigillata and glass wares, and with coins, seems to suggest centres with stronger Roman influence and centres with stronger native background linked to the settlement of Locarno-Muralto. Parallels with finds from the Verbano region ,and western Lombardy-eastern Piemonte, in particular the area between the rivers Sesia, Po and Adda were highlighted. Lakes Verbano and Lario lead to the alpine passes and linked the Verbano area to the Raetic and Rhine regions. The same area was easily linked to main centres of the eastern Po region as far as Aquileia and Ravenna by the river Po. The present work is not only intended to fulfil the requirement of a British doctoral thesis, but also to satisfy current approaches in Switzerland and complement the systematic studies of other Roman artefacts of the region.

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De, Micheli Schulthess Christiane M. A. "Aspects of Roman pottery in canton Ticino (Switzerland) /." Oxford : J. and E. Hedges, 2003. http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb39071636z.

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Häne, Martin. "A survey of laying hen husbandry in Switzerland /." [S.l.] : [s.n.], 1999. http://www.ub.unibe.ch/content/bibliotheken_sammlungen/sondersammlungen/dissen_bestellformular/index_ger.html.

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Götze, Franziska [Verfasser]. "Demand for organic food in Switzerland / Franziska Götze." Bonn : Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek Bonn, 2019. http://d-nb.info/1199005460/34.

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Smith, Aaron O. "A phase 1 archaeological field reconnaissance prepared for proposed utility improvements within portions of Switzerland County, Indiana." Virtual Press, 2002. http://liblink.bsu.edu/uhtbin/catkey/1236372.

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An archaeological records check and field reconnaissance have been completed for a proposed utility improvement project in Switzerland County, Indiana. Twenty-nine archaeological sites were documented. These sites date from the Early Archaic to the twentieth-century.Two sites, 12Sw381 and 12Sw386, were recommended for archaeological intensive assessments, or avoidance. Two sites, 12Sw366 and 12Sw368, were considered potentially eligible to the State and National Registers of Historic Places. These sites were not recommended for further assessment, because the proposed project would not adversely effect their significant archaeological resources. Three areas were also recommended for a subsurface reconnaissance.Beyond these areas and resources, it was recommended that the remainder of the proposed project be allowed to proceed. However, it was recommended that if any unanticipated archaeological resources were encountered, the project should be halted and the Division of Historic Preservation and Archaeology of the Indiana Department of Natural Resources contacted before work resumes.
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Taplin, Mark. "The Italian reformers and the Zurich church, c.1540-1620." Thesis, University of St Andrews, 1999. http://hdl.handle.net/10023/13632.

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This study charts the developing relationship between the Zurich church and Italian-speaking Protestants between around 1540 and 1620. It explores the close ties that were established between Zurich's senior minister, Heinrich Bullinger, and Italian evangelical exiles in Switzerland and elsewhere from the early 1540s, and describes how the Zurich church facilitated the spread of Protestantism in Italian-speaking regions such as Locarno and southern Graubünden. That process culminated in the setting-up in Zurich, under Bullinger's patronage, of an Italian Reformed congregation. A particular concern of the thesis is the threat to the integrity of the Zwinglian settlement posed by the ideas and activities of religious radicals within the Italian exile community. To begin with, Bullinger was confident that those 'heretics' could be accommodated within the emerging Reformed consensus. However, a series of doctrinal disputes during the 1540s, 1550s and 1560s revealed the extent of the radicals' differences with Reformed orthodoxy and compelled the Zurichers to revise their judgement. Bullinger's hostile reaction to the publication of the allegedly heterodox Dialogi XXX by his Italian colleague, Bernardino Ochino, signalled a move from conciliation to confrontation. From the early 1560s, the Zurich divines assumed an active role in the Reformed campaign to shore up Nicene orthodoxy against the criticisms of Italian antitrinitarians, and to expel radicals from the Italian-speaking churches of the Rhaetian Freestate. In the process, they endeavoured to counter the charges of heresy that had long bedevilled Zwinglianism by articulating a conservative, 'catholic' definition of their church's identity. The study concludes by examining how relations between the Zurich church and the Italian Reformed communities of Graubünden and its subject lands were placed on a new, co-operative basis once the radical challenge had been repelled. Through its support for those vulnerable congregations, I suggest, the Zurich church gave evidence of its continued commitment to the international Protestant cause during the period following Bullinger's death. The correspondence of Bullinger and other Zurich ministers forms the dissertation's most important source. The study also draws on works produced by the Zurich divines in the context of their exchanges with Italian evangelicals, the works of the Italian exiles themselves, and the records of Zurich's Italian-speaking community.

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Gerber, Roland. "Gott ist Burger zu Bern : eine spätmittelalterliche Stadtgesellschaft zwischen Herrschaftsbildung und sozialem Ausgleich /." Weimar : H. Böhlaus, 2001. http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb38830124r.

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Knoll, Sonja. "Word order within infinitival complements in Swiss-German." Thesis, McGill University, 1992. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=61299.

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This thesis studies word order variations in Swiss-German sentences that contain infinitival complements. Such sentences exhibit interesting word order. Verbs can be in different orders and the objects selected by these verbs can be in different positions relative to them. The aim of this thesis is to give a general account of these word order facts based solely on structural properties of the complements in the underlying structure. In particular, it is claimed that Swiss-German verbs that take infinitival complements do not all select the same type of complements. Some verbs (like modals, perception verbs and causatives) select VPs, others (like raising verbs) select IPs and others (like control verbs) select IPs or CPs. Mechanisms such as extraposition, verb raising and proliticization then apply to different structures in order for the sentence to satisfy T-linking. Extraposition applies to IPs and CPs, verb raising to IPs and VPs and procliticization to verbs that are sister to VPs.

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Pammer, Christoph. "Quality of Care in Austria and Switzerland : ein Projektvorschlag /." Graz, 2004. http://www.public-health-edu.ch/new/Abstracts/PC_29.03.05.pdf.

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Bay, Francesca. "Ground motion scaling in Switzerland : implications for hazard assessment /." [Zürich] : [s.n.], 2002. http://e-collection.ethbib.ethz.ch/show?type=diss&nr=14567.

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Aschwanden, Julian. "Determinants of Share Buybacks in Switzerland An Empirical Study /." St. Gallen, 2009. http://www.biblio.unisg.ch/org/biblio/edoc.nsf/wwwDisplayIdentifier/03605284101/$FILE/03605284101.pdf.

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Ulrich, Georges Simon. "Repositioning of a Stakeholder Issue applied at Pfizer Switzerland." University of Southern Queensland, Faculty of Business, 2008. http://eprints.usq.edu.au/archive/00006256/.

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[Abstract]How can a company implement its stakeholder orientation in the interaction with its stakeholders via the media? The study is a descriptive analysis of the starting point for a campaign-oriented approach using Pfizer Switzerland as a case study. In this paper, a framework is developed on the basis of the stakeholder and the campaigning approach. This allows a company to identify how its declared stakeholder orientation is perceived within the company, by the population and the media, in order to initiate a comprehensive stakeholder communication and encourage the stakeholders to communicate with the company in appropriate fields of interaction. To achieve this, the social-economic survey research was used as a process instrument. This is generally accepted as an objectification function. On a comprehensive structural level, it should enable management to understand its environment pertaining to a specific issue, and to communicate in such a way as to achieve the desired effect. The framework was applied to the issue of trust at Pfizer. The study concludes that the role of the media, in its primary function and in its role as a platform for initiating dialogues on appropriate interaction fields, contains potential for Pfizer. At the same time, a distinction was made between the relevance of the media, and the difference between the reports published by the media and the actual perception in the population. In particular, political orientation appears to be significant for the question of having trust in Pfizer. The framework, developed on the basis of empirical opinion research, has contributed toward the management of Pfizer seeing how the company is actually perceived in the population, thereby providing a basis for further critical reflection and decision making.At Pfizer, one is convinced that the media play an important role in the communicative implementation of a stakeholder-oriented vision. Challenges need to be met so that in the future a direct and mutual exchange with the relevant stakeholders will lead to the goal of actually being perceived by the population as a trustworthy company.

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Rütschi, Christian. "Health and health insurance in Switzerland : an empirical investigation /." Berlin : dissertation.de, 2008. http://www.gbv.de/dms/zbw/568522192.pdf.

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Page, Jamie. "Prostitution and subjectivity in late mediaeval Germany and Switzerland." Thesis, University of St Andrews, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/10023/4037.

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This thesis is a study of the problem of subjectivity and prostitution in the Middle Ages. Three legal case studies of unpublished archival material and one chapter focussing on fictional texts from late mediaeval Germany and Switzerland are used to investigate the conditions of prostitutes' subjectification in law and literature. The thesis takes impetus from Ruth Karras's recent articulation of the problem of prostitution and sexuality, seeking to engage critically with her notion of “prostitute” as a medieval sexual identity that might be applied to any woman who had extra-marital sex. In dealing with trial records, it also aims to make a methodological contribution to the study of crime and the problem of locating the individual. Chapters I-III examine the records of criminal cases featuring the testimony of prostitutes, or women who risked such categorisation, to consider the available subject positions both within and outwith the context of municipal regulation. Whilst acknowledging the force of normative ideas about prostitutes as lustful women, these chapters argue that prostitutes' subject positions in legal cases were adopted according to local conditions, and depended upon the immediate circumstances of the women involved. They also consider trial records as a form of masculine discourse, arguing that an anxious masculine subject can be seen to emerge in response to the phenomenon of prostitution. Chapter IV expands this discussion by drawing on literary texts showing how prostitutes prompted concern on the part of male poets and audiences, for whom their sexual agency was a threat which belied their theoretical status as sexual objects. Note: Transcriptions of the legal cases making up chapters I-III are provided in Appendices A, B, and C.

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Hochli, Marc. "The invisible scissors : media freedom and censorship in Switzerland." Thesis, Brunel University, 2010. http://bura.brunel.ac.uk/handle/2438/4526.

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At first glance, the very idea of analysing the freedom of the media and of researching censorship in Switzerland seems absurd. After all, the Federal Constitution explicitly guarantees freedom of the media, and censorship is forbidden. Furthermore, this small, federal, multilingual and multicultural landlocked country in the middle of Europe is universally praised as a model of democracy. Indeed, in a country whose people have a far greater say in government than anywhere else, one could easily assume that the freedom of the media is a foregone conclusion. Yet, in reality, this shining image is more than a little tarnished. The "Prototype for Europe" – as the former Federal President of Germany Richard von Weizsäcker once described Switzerland – experiences the same forms and mechanisms of censorship as any other democratic country. Of course, in Switzerland "undesirable" journalists are not threatened with murder, but critically discerning authors do risk becoming social outcasts. Switzerland prohibits governmental pre-censorship, but the advertising industry has on occasion attempted to shape the content of the media by means of post-publication censorship in the form of boycotts. Switzerland is a constitutional state, yet the paragraphs of its penal and civil codes hang over media workers like the sword of Damocles. Then there are structural problems such as the lack of proper journalistic education. However one looks at it, the freedom of the media in Switzerland is officially, materially and structurally restricted. However, most people remain unconcerned by and indeed unaware of this state of affairs. Thomas Jefferson's reminder that, "to preserve the freedom of the human mind then and freedom of the press, every spirit should be ready to devote itself to martyrdom; for as long as we may think as we will, and speak as we think, the condition of man will proceed in improvement”*, has long been forgotten in Switzerland. The Swiss appear to be basking in their country’s reputation as a place without media problems. It therefore came as no surprise to us when, both in our quantitative and qualitative research, many of those interviewed were surprised and even irritated at our 2 questions about possible threats to freedom of the media in Switzerland. Some people even felt that they were being personally attacked and responded along the lines that "Instead of fouling our own nest we ought to describe the advantages of our country and our democratic system". Or: "In comparison with Russia or China we are living in a paradise": It seems that only the most critical among the media personnel, media experts and media scientists are willing to pinpoint the problems faced by the contemporary Swiss media. All the others are convinced that we have the best media on earth. This attitude of part indifference, part ignorance and part wishful thinking, was the catalyst for our research on the freedom of the Swiss media and the potential dangers and mechanisms which threaten it. Our findings reveal that all that glitters is not gold and that the Swiss media scene is, in some ways, reminiscent of a Potemkin village. *Jefferson, Thomas, Letter to William Green Mumford, 18 June 1799 (http://www.positiveatheism.org/hist/quotes/jefferson.htm, consulted 15 June 2006)

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Rütschi, Christian. "Health and health insurance in Switzerland - an empirical investigation." Berlin dissertation.de, 2007. http://d-nb.info/988891034/04.

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Zingg, Andreas. "The performance and governance of pension funds in Switzerland /." lizenzfrei, 2009. http://www.gbv.de/dms/zbw/610285696.pdf.

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Häsler, Barbara. "Economic and epidemiological aspects of bovine neosporosis in Switzerland /." Bern : [s.n.], 2006. http://www.stub.ch/index.php?p=1&i=645.

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Hartmann, Anja. "Reflexive Politik im sozialen Raum politische Eliten in Genf zwischen 1760 und 1841 /." Mainz : Von Zabern, 2003. http://catalog.hathitrust.org/api/volumes/oclc/54928999.html.

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Gutzwiller, Severin. "Analysis of Market Opportunities for Wireless Mesh Networks in Switzerland." St. Gallen, 2005. http://www.biblio.unisg.ch/org/biblio/edoc.nsf/wwwDisplayIdentifier/96102892001/$FILE/96102892001.pdf.

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Gretzinger, Julian. "Do shareholders benefit from M&A activities in Switzerland?" St. Gallen, 2007. http://www.biblio.unisg.ch/org/biblio/edoc.nsf/wwwDisplayIdentifier/01061936001/$FILE/01061936001.pdf.

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Willemse, Saskia. "A statistical analysis and climatological interpretation of hailstorms in Switzerland /." [S.l.] : [s.n.], 1995. http://e-collection.ethbib.ethz.ch/show?type=diss&nr=11137.

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Linder, Wolfgang. "Development of thunderstorms in Switzerland in relation to surface winds /." [S.l.] : [s.n.], 1998. http://e-collection.ethbib.ethz.ch/show?type=diss&nr=12589.

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Stocker, Peter Candidus. "Switzerland and its relationship to European and global security institutions." Thesis, Monterey, Calif. : Springfield, Va. : Naval Postgraduate School ; Available from National Technical Information Service, 2000. http://handle.dtic.mil/100.2/ADA379783.

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Thesis (M.A. in National Security Affairs) Naval Postgraduate School, June 2000.
Thesis advisor(s): Abenheim, Donald. "June 2000." Includes bibliographical references (p. 137-144). Also available in print.

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Zainhofer, Florian. "Life cycle investing and occupational old-age provision in Switzerland." Wiesbaden : Gabler, 2008. http://d-nb.info/988383527/04.

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Eichel, Jana [Verfasser]. "Biogeomorphic dynamics in the Turtmann glacier forefield, Switzerland / Jana Eichel." Bonn : Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek Bonn, 2017. http://d-nb.info/1135663408/34.

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Meßenzehl, Karoline [Verfasser]. "Rock slope instability in alpine geomorphic systems, Switzerland / Karoline Meßenzehl." Bonn : Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek Bonn, 2018. http://d-nb.info/1160594503/34.

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Sinelnyk, Kateryna Olehivna, and Катерина Олегівна Синельник. "The role of Switzerland in ensuring world peace and security." Thesis, National Aviation University, 2021. https://er.nau.edu.ua/handle/NAU/51635.

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1. Trachsler, D. (2012). Representing foreign interests: Rebirth of a Swiss tradition? CSS AnalysisinSecurityPolicy, 108, р. 1–4. 2. Graf A., Lanz D. Conclusions: Switzerland as a paradigmatic case of smallstate peace policy? // Swiss Political Science Review. – 2013. – Vol. 19, № 3. – P. 35– 39. 3. The Chairmanship Interlaken Recommendations // Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe [Electronic resource]. – URL : https://www. osce.org/cio/118146 (accessed : 11.03.2021) 4. Finaud M. Can Geneva become again the city of disarmament? // UN Special. – 2018. – № 6. – P. 8–9. 5. Shveytzer, V. Y., Stepanov, A. I. (2009). The specificity of neutrality. In: V. Y. Shveytzer (еd.), Alpine states and the Benelux in a changing Europe. Moscow, VesMirpub., l p. 144–164. (InRuss.).
During the Cold War, the Swiss Government adhered to the traditional understanding of security, which was limited to the military and political sphere. The concept of the common defense, which was officially adopted in 1973, provided fora build-up of military capacities of the state in order to prevent attempts to put pressure on the Confederation through intimidation, protect its national interests and pull back possible armed attacks that threatened its security. In subsequent years the international situation has evolved considerably. The priority of the modern Swiss peace policy is the new conflict prevention as well as the prevention of recurrence or deterioration of existing ones. Neutral Switzerland is in demand as a patron power: in particular, it represents the mutual interests of Georgia and Russia, which have not had direct diplomatic relations since 2008. Swiss diplomats also serve as intermediaries. Thus, M. Ambühl promoted the signing of the Zurich Protocols (2009), which marked the beginning of the normalization of relations between Armenia and Turkey. Another area of good offices is promoting dialogue, in which a third party provides only logistical support, not taking part in the negotiation process itself. In 2004, Bürgenstock (canton of Nidwalden), and in 2016–2017 - Mont Pelerin (canton of Vaud), Geneva and Crans-Montana (canton of Valais) have become platforms for exploring ways to resolve the Cyprus conflict between Greece and Turkey
Під час холодної війни швейцарський уряд дотримувався традиційного розуміння безпеки, яке обмежувалося лише військово-політичною сферою. Концепція спільної оборони, яка була офіційно прийнята в 1973 р., передбачала нарощування військового потенціалу держави з метою запобігання спробам тиску на Конфедерацію шляхом залякування, захисту її національних інтересів та відкликання можливих збройних атак, які загрожувала його безпеці. У наступні роки міжнародна ситуація значно змінилася. Пріоритетом сучасної швейцарської мирної політики є запобігання новим конфліктам, а також запобігання повторенню або погіршенню існуючих. Нейтральна Швейцарія затребувана як держава-покровитель: зокрема, вона представляє взаємні інтереси Грузії та Росії, які не мали прямих дипломатичних відносин з 2008 року. Швейцарські дипломати також виступають посередниками. Так, М. Амбюль сприяв підписанню Цюріхських протоколів (2009 р.), Що поклало початок нормалізації відносин між Вірменією та Туреччиною. Ще однією сферою добрих послуг є сприяння діалогу, в якому третя сторона надає лише матеріально-технічну підтримку, не беручи участі в самому процесі переговорів. У 2004 р. Бюргенсток (кантон Нідвальден), а в 2016–2017 рр. - Мон Пелерин (кантон Во), Женева та Кран-Монтана (кантон Вале) стали платформами для вивчення шляхів вирішення кіпрського конфлікту між Грецією та Туреччиною

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Massie, Shannon Leigh. "Re-Dwelling: A Proposal for Five Dwellings in Maggia, Switzerland." Thesis, Virginia Tech, 1996. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/30317.

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This thesis proposes five new dwellings be constructed within Maggia, a medieval village in Italian-speaking Ticino, Switzerland. The modern scheme placed within Maggia's old town outlines an attempt to revitalize the village's life by providing places for individuals, families, groups of families, and the whole village community. The act acknowledges a process of evolution which integrates old and new to continually generate livable places. Building a new element into the fabric of an old village requires an understanding of the existing place and the forces which contributed to its making. An architect designing within such a context should question the physical characteristics of the built environment and also examine natural and historical factors which may have influenced previous building. The historical, natural, and built environment contributes to forming the spirit, or experience, of the place. By attempting to define and name the elements which have created this spirit, the architect may begin to develop a design uniquely specific to its locale which contributes to the built community. A study of Maggia's existing structure reveals a widening gap between the town's old and new architecture. The proposed design attempts to mediate this separation between medieval and modern design. The project acts as a bridge, both physically and metaphorically, between the central town and newer surrounding development. While the project recognizes the medieval village as the essential monument which guides and informs new design, it simultaneously integrates modern concerns which influence the inhabitants' quality of life.
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Rosenberger, Lukas. "The Swiss English hypothesis the linguistics of English in Switzerland /." Tübingen Francke, 2006. http://d-nb.info/994607776/04.

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Gabathuler, Matthias. "Physical ecosystem determinants in high mountain lakes : the Jöri Lakes, Switzerland /." [S.l.] : [s.n.], 1999. http://e-collection.ethbib.ethz.ch/show?type=diss&nr=13449.

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Schmucki, Patrick. "The Impact of Population Aging on the Mortgage Market in Switzerland." St. Gallen, 2006. http://www.biblio.unisg.ch/org/biblio/edoc.nsf/wwwDisplayIdentifier/03601598001/$FILE/03601598001.pdf.

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Dorn, David. "An empirical analysis of early retirement : Switzerland in an international comparison /." Bern : Haupt, 2004. http://aleph.unisg.ch/hsgscan/hm00093632.pdf.

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