https://secondorder.ch/en/Recent content on secondorder.chHugoenSun, 12 Apr 2026 19:09:23 +0200https://secondorder.ch/en/posts/2026-04-12_zuerich-wie-die-stadt-waehlt/Sun, 12 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://secondorder.ch/en/posts/2026-04-12_zuerich-wie-die-stadt-waehlt/Vote shares in council elections since 1990: SP stable at 30%, Greens and GLP grew, SVP halved, FDP and CVP/Mitte stagnating.https://secondorder.ch/en/posts/2026-04-10_zuerich-kommunal/Fri, 10 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://secondorder.ch/en/posts/2026-04-10_zuerich-kommunal/97% of parliamentary proposals are accepted. Pure popular initiatives pass 31% of the time. In between: the counter-proposal.https://secondorder.ch/en/posts/2026-04-04_zuerich-kantonal/Sat, 04 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://secondorder.ch/en/posts/2026-04-04_zuerich-kantonal/In cantonal votes in the 2020s, the city of Zurich deviates 10 percentage points from the canton-wide result. In the 1970s, it was 3.https://secondorder.ch/en/posts/2026-04-01_zuerich-stimmt-anders/Wed, 01 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://secondorder.ch/en/posts/2026-04-01_zuerich-stimmt-anders/In a typical federal vote in the 2020s, the city of Zurich deviates 13 percentage points from the national result. In the 1970s, it was 6.https://secondorder.ch/en/about/Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000https://secondorder.ch/en/about/<p>This is about economics, politics, and history — and more. Finding patterns, turning them into theses, testing them — sometimes seriously, sometimes playfully. Classically liberal.</p> <p>With the ambition to understand a topic beyond the first answer — and Switzerland as the reference point, not because it&rsquo;s perfect, but because among the real-world implementations of liberal ideas it ranks near the top.</p> <p>Zurich, April 2026</p>