The LLSETI Laboratory invites you to attend the lecture "Who can participate? Debates on the political participation of women and foreign residents in Switzerland since 1945" by Zoé Kergomard, researcher at the University of Zurich.
It will take place on Friday, March 25, 2022 at 6:30 p.m. via zoom. To take part, simply write to stephanie.chapuis-despres@univ-smb.fr. You'll receive the link a few days before the conference. Registration is open until March 23.
CONFERENCE DESCRIPTION
In Switzerland and beyond, Swiss democracy is often presented as exemplary, even exceptional, because of the opportunities for popular participation offered by both direct democracy and federalism. But this peculiarity has been, and still is, used as anargument to limit access, as if such extensive participation should remain confined to a kind of exclusive club. This talk looks back at the debates in the Swiss public arena surrounding the political participation of women and foreign residents (two categories that are obviously not mutually exclusive) since 1945. While the belated introduction of women's suffrage at federal level in 1971 was a fundamental turning point in the history of Swiss democracy, it does not exhaust the problem of democratic inclusion, in a country that today counts around 25% of foreign residents as objects but not subjects of direct democracy.
TO FIND OUT MORE :
- LLSETi laboratory website