Abstract

'The decisive role of interest groups within the political process has become a commonplace observation' or 'Interest groups are so influential that they even have the dominant political power in democracies', such statements can quite often be found by many authors in analysing the importance of interest groups.' As Bernholz (1975: 94) points out it is surprising that measuring the scale of influence has seldom been tried.2 In this study we make an attempt to empirically measure the scale of influence of interest groups in the case of Switzerland. Switzerland was chosen, because the Swiss political system, the form of a direct democracy, offers favourable conditions where the influence of interest groups can be investigated in two ways:

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