nam 22 uu 4500 10.17176/20230602-231132-0 DE-Verfassungsblog cr||||| 230602s2023||||xx#|||||o|||| ||| 0|eng|| 10.17176/20230602-231132-0 doi eng 342 23 Schmid, Samuel D. Author aut (orcid)0000-0003-1105-3071 Democratizing Switzerland - The Significance of the New Naturalization Initiative Schmid, Samuel D. Verfassungsblog 2023-06-02 Text txt rdacontent Computermedien c rdamedia Online-Ressource cr rdacarrier About 25% of Switzerland’s permanent population do not possess the red passport necessary to vote due to one of the most restrictive citizenship law’s in the Western world. The Democracy Initiative is trying to change this. While unlikely to succeed, they are nonetheless starting an important conversation about how to fix Switzerland’s semi-democracy. CC BY-SA 4.0 Citizenship Naturalization Referendum Switzerland Max Steinbeis Verfassungsblog gGmbH Verfassungsblog 2366-7044 https://verfassungsblog.de/democratizing-switzerland/ raw object