(Saskatchewan Institute of Public Policy, 2002-03) Bullinger, Anne-Béatrice
This paper summarizes and analyzes a 1999 report by the Swiss federal government and the
cantons (Conseil fédéral 1999), which presents the planned reform of the equalization
system in Switzerland. I argue that this reform is the result of hard work by both levels of
government, and that it proposes ideal solutions to reform Swiss federalism in terms of
economic rationality, but I doubt that such an extensive reform can be successfully
implemented within the Swiss political context.
