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The 1976 Election: New Trends in the Swedish Electorate
Author(s) -
Petersson Olof
Publication year - 1978
Publication title -
scandinavian political studies
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.65
H-Index - 41
eISSN - 1467-9477
pISSN - 0080-6757
DOI - 10.1111/j.1467-9477.1978.tb00172.x
Subject(s) - bureaucracy , socialization , volatility (finance) , political science , government (linguistics) , political economy , mythology , demographic economics , public administration , economics , sociology , politics , law , econometrics , social science , history , linguistics , philosophy , classics
This article summarizes some of the main findings from the 1976 Swedish Election Study. The defeat of the Social Democrat government in 1976 was caused by three issues: bureaucracy, socialization, and nuclear power. Although net changes were small, the actual number of voters switching parties was the largest recorded during the last twenty years. The traditional image of the stable Swedish voter is becoming a myth. Aggregate stability is combined with a large and increasing individual volatility.