Swedish Politics in the Late Nineteen-Sixties
Dynamic Stability
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4874077 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Jane Perry Clark Carey, Andrew Galbraith Carey (City of New York) |
| Year | 1969 |
| Volume | 84 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 461-485 |
| Publication date | 1969-09-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Political Science Quarterly (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0032-3195 • E-ISSN: 1538-165X |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (OUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/2147270 |
| OpenAlex | W2313139203 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
When the Swedish Parliament, the Riksdag, opened its new session in January 1969, with traditional pomp and ceremony and in the presence of King Gustav VI Adolph and Prime Minister Tage Erlander, among its deputies were a number of new faces, some half of whom, symptomatically, were under age forty. A few other young people paraded outside, their banners referring to the colorful ceremony as an upper-class farce. It looked as though new forces were ruffling the usually calm and outwardly untroubled waters of Swedish politics. The new members had been elected to the Riksdag's Second Chamber' the preceding September 15, sometimes referred to by headlines as Sweden's Day of Fate because of the importance of the elections. Other factors beside good weather combined to bring to the polls the highest percentage of voters (88.7) ever to cast their ballots. World tensions, the new place of youth in political life, and, most
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| Citations per year | 0.04 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 1973 - 2012 (40) |
| Highly cited | No |