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This book is the first treatment in English of the medieval Swedish kingdom in its formative period, the twelfth and thirteenth centuries. It provides an overview of Scandinavian research on the subject and an analysis of all aspects of kingship and government. ... Read more

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report form the YES-CONFERENCE, Ronneby, Sweden, May 5-7, 1986. 120 pages. The participants were representatives of 17 European governments who had answered YES to all five questions. Those who had not said yes were invited as observers. ... Read more

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This digital document is an article from Government Finance Review, published by Government Finance Officers Association on October 1, 1997. The length of the article is 1659 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

From the supplier: A group of Swedish delegates were welcomed in the celebration of the 1997 Government Finance Officers Assn annual conference which was held in Fort Lauderdale, FL. The 25 delegates represent two factions: board members and top management of the company that handles the pension funds for local government employees and representatives of local government and counties. Part of the arrangement for the Swedish delegates is to take a number of study tours before the conference. One of the most important benefits of the conference is to meet other professionals from the US and Canada.

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Title: The GFOA annual conference from a Swedish perspective. (Government Finance Officers Assn)
Author: Johnny Larsson
Publication: Government Finance Review (Magazine/Journal)
Date: October 1, 1997
Publisher: Government Finance Officers Association
Volume: v13Issue: n5Page: p47(2)

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This comprehensive and systematic review of Sweden's efforts at regulatory reform examines recent performance and assesses regulatory policies and institutions, competition policy, market openness, and multi-level regulatory governance. A special chapter covers envirionmental regulation.Table of Content : Summary Chapter 1. Performance and Appraisal -Introduction -Section 1. Macroeconomic Context -Section 2. Regulatory Reform: Its Contribution to Performance So Far -Section 3. Regulatory Reform: Emerging Challenges -Section 4. Moving Forward: Regulatory Capacities for Promoting Further Reform Chapter 2. Regulatory Governance Chapter 3. Competition Policy Chapter 4. Market Openness Chapter 5. Multi-level Regulatory Governance Chapter 6. Environment ... Read more

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This Elibron Classics book is a facsimile reprint of a 1905 edition by Macmillan and Co., Ltd., London. ... Read more

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Following the stranding of a Soviet Whiskey-class submarine in 1981 on the Swedish archipelago, a series of massive submarine intrusions took place within Swedish waters.

However, the evidence for these appears to have been manipulated or simply invented. Classified documents and interviews point to covert Western, rather than Soviet activity. This is backed up by former US Secretary of Defense Caspar Weinberger, who stated that Western "testing" operations were carried out regularly in Swedish waters. Royal Navy submarine captains have also admitted to top-secret operations.

Ola Tunander's revelations make it clear that the United States and Britain ran a "secret war" in Swedish waters. The number of Swedes perceiving the Soviet Union as a direct threat increased from 5-10 per cent in 1980 to 45 per cent in 1983. This Anglo-American "secret war" was aimed at exerting political influence over Sweden. It was a risky enterprise, but perhaps the most successful covert operation of the entire Cold War. ... Read more

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A Western deception operation
In October 1982, mysterious submarines entered Swedish waters. They were stigmatized by the military as Soviet war ships testing Swedish preparedness for a new attack on Western frontiers.
The submarine hunt by the Swedish army started 2 weeks after the Social Democratic Party won a parliamentary election under Olof Palme, who not only supported Third World freedom movements like the Sandinistas in Nicaragua, but more importantly campaigned for a Nordic and Central European Nuclear Weapons-Free Zone. Therefore he initiated a Western-Soviet dialogue on security and disarmament.
Olof Palme was considered to be a high security risk by the US, NATO and some industrial and military leaders in Sweden. He was shot dead one month before a trip to Moscow.

Through a meticulous examination of all events Ola Tunander arrives at the conclusion that there was absolutely no USSR involvement in the affair. It was a pure Western provocation, a form of psychological warfare in order to undermine Olof Palme's credibility, to destabilize his government, to counter his policies and to undercut the popular support for his Party.
The effective result was a complete change in Swedish public opinion concerning Soviet aggression. It provoked, de facto, a change in Swedish international neutrality policies.

Deception operations are an alternative means to the use of force in order to dominate democratic States. By creating a false reality through covert incidents (by foreign or by the country's own military forces) public opinion can be manipulated, thereby forcing (or giving the opportunity to) elected governments to carry out the policies of international (military) authorities and not their own ones. Similar operations were launched in other NATO States (Belgium, Italy).

But this book shows also another extremely important political phenomenon. Western democracies were (are) ultimately not ruled by elected (formal) governments but by parallel (informal) ones; as Caspar Weinberger asked in this case: the `political' or the `military' Sweden? This ruling informal power structure is mostly composed by military and industrial leaders.

Ola Tunander wrote a thriller script which is a must read for all those who want to understand the world we live in.
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After three-quarters of a century in which Sweden had been reckoned as one of the great powers of Europe, it fell almost overnight into the position of being one of the weakest. But if in international affairs this was a period of decrepitude, in domestic affairs it was a period of remarkable achievements. Between 1720 and 1772 Sweden had the most advanced constitution in Europe. Foreign observers regarded her as 'the freest country in the world'. To an analysis of the principles and practice of the constitution, and of the nature and functioning of Swedish parties, the central chapters of this book are devoted. The final chapter attempts to explain why it was that in 1772 Gustav III was so easily able to bring the Age of Liberty to an end, and why an egalitarian social revolution, which had seemed imminent, was temporarily aborted by his coup d'état. ... Read more

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Originally published in 1988, this book asks the question, how does the political system affect the behaviour of individuals? Donald Granberg and Sören Holmberg use long-term cross-sectional and panel national surveys of electorates in two very different democratic systems - Sweden and the United States - to examine an issue that has implications for our understanding of both social and psychological processes and also political systems in general. Their interdisciplinary and comparative survey considers such topics as ideological perception of abstract and concrete issues at the party and individual level; the polarisation,interrelation and transitivity of attitudes; the relationship between intention and behaviour; and the ways in which behaviour may be predicted. The book offers a detailed and convincing analysis of the interaction of political context with social psychological processes. It will be of interest not only to social, political and comparative psychologists, but also to all researchers with an interest in electoral behaviour. ... Read more

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Politics of Sweden. Monarchy of Sweden, Constitution of Sweden, Prime Minister of Sweden, Government of Sweden, Parliament of Sweden, Judicial system of Sweden, Counties of Sweden, Nuclear power in Sweden, Foreign relations of Sweden, Swedish Armed Forces, List of political parties in Sweden, Politics of the European Union, Alliance for Sweden ... Read more