How Sweden went from ‘least democratic’ to welfare state
Published 14 June 2019 To the left: a demonstration in Lund in 1950. (Photo: Firma Hagblom-Foto, from the Lund University archives.) To the right: Erik Bengtsson. In a new study, Lund University economic historian Erik Bengtsson debunks the myth that Sweden was destined to become a social democratic country. Instead, he argues that it was actually against all odds, as Sweden in the early 1900s was
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