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anonymous efficient power

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Switzerland's model: nobody abroad knows its ministers, yet the power structure simply functions without charismatic leaders, combined with referenda, a model he holds up against leader-centred politics.

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… But I think as a model, this more anonymous, efficient power, and at the same time reliance on referenda, what is the plural of referendums, is a model to follow because I'm very much a pessimist here.
Slavoj Žižek