The Social Origins of Liberal Democracy
The Swedish Case
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3370630 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Timothy A Tilton (Indiana University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1974 |
| Volume | 68 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 561-571 |
| Publication date | 1974-06-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | American Political Science Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0003-0554 • E-ISSN: 1537-5943 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/1959505 |
| OpenAlex | W4250561180 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 13 |
| References cited | 7 |
Implicit in Dahrendorf's Society and Democracy in Germany and explicit in Moore's Social Origins of Dictatorship and Democracy are respectively a liberal and a radical model of democratic development. Neither of these models adequately accounts for the experience of Sweden, a remarkably successful "late developer." Although Swedish industrialization proceeded with little public ownership of the means of production, with limited welfare programs until the 1930s, and above all with restricted military expenditure-all factors Dahrendorf implies are crucial for democratic development-it did not produce the traditional liberal infrastructure of bourgeois entrepreneurs nor a vigorous open market society. Similarly only three of Moore's five preconditions for democracy obtained in Sweden: a balance between monarchy and aristocracy, the weakening of the landed aristocracy, and the prevention of an aristocratic-bourgeois coalition against the workers and peasants. There was no thorough shift toward commercial agriculture and, most important, there was no revolutionary break with the past. Consequently, one has to evolve a radical liberal model of development which states the conditions for the emergence of democracy in Sweden without revolution. This model contains implications for the further modernization of American politics
Aristocracy (class · Bourgeoisie · Democracy · Dictatorship · Industrialisation · Liberal democracy · Modernization theory · Monarchy · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Representative democracy · Sociology · Electoral Systems and Political Participation · Law · Political Conflict and Governance
Rise of the Bourgeoisie, Demise of Empire
The Rise and Decline of General Laws of Capitalism
Democracy, extension of suffrage, and redistribution in nineteenth-century Europe
Sounds of Loss
The Swedish Sonderweg in Question
State and Revolution in Finland
Forestalling the Business Veto
Impartial Administration and Peaceful Agrarian Reform
Getting to Sweden, Part I
The role of ‘the resources of the power hypothesis’ in explaining the Spanish welfare state between 1975–1995
Direct Democracy and Women's Political Engagement
The Origins of the Swedish Welfare State
The Rise and Decline of General Laws of Capitalism
| Unique citing works | 13 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,36 |
| Citation span | 1990 - 2023 (34) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 13 |