Rise and Decline of Nations: Sweden
作者:
Agne Gustafsson,
期刊:
Scandinavian Political Studies
(WILEY Available online 1986)
卷期:
Volume 9,
issue 1
页码: 35-50
ISSN:0080-6757
年代: 1986
DOI:10.1111/j.1467-9477.1986.tb00334.x
出版商: Blackwell Publishing Ltd
数据来源: WILEY
摘要:
The development of the Swedish political economy is interesting in the perspective of the Mancur Olson theory about the rise and decline of nations. It is shown that the general argument of RADON is not in agreement with facts about the growth of the affluent society in Sweden between 1870 and 1970. The strong growth in the overall economic output took place in a society where a number of distributional coalitions were strongly organized. Also the special argument in RADON about the reversed consequences of broad interest organizations meets with little support. Whatever is meant by an encompassing interest organisation, what was crucial in the Swedish case was the strong position of party government and the broad participatory nature of the political process. Directly contradicting the RADON argument is the fact that the structure of distributional coalitions has in general become even more encompassing since 1970. yet the economic situation of Sweden has deteriorated considerably. The predicament of party government mest be emphasized, as the period since 1970 has witnessed a decline in the capacity of political leadership to govern the country.
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