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Publications: Publication: Debating responsibility ()

Abstract

On 9 February, the Swiss will vote on an initiative ‘for environmental responsibility’. Meanwhile, a broad coalition of NGOs is collecting signatures for an initiative ‘for responsible big business’, just over four years after the failure of the first so-called ‘responsible business’ initiative. That initiative was supported by a narrow majority of voters and almost all the cantons in French-speaking Switzerland, but was rejected by the majority of cantons. These two projects therefore put the notion of responsibility back at the forefront of the political stage, in an attempt to impose a broader understanding of it.