Comments on: Placing Swedish Governments to the Left and the Right http://jacobchristensen.name/2009/05/05/placing-swedish-governments-to-the-left-and-the-right/ Notes from the Outside of the Inside Sun, 29 Jan 2012 10:45:02 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Jacob Christensen http://jacobchristensen.name/2009/05/05/placing-swedish-governments-to-the-left-and-the-right/comment-page-1/#comment-842 Jacob Christensen Fri, 08 May 2009 17:52:15 +0000 http://jacobchristensen.name/?p=3203#comment-842 Sweden is different in some respects, as it is a very unidimensional system.

But one reason any of the Fälldin governments were out of the question as the most right-wing government was environmental policy. We shall see what results my colleague brings out.

]]> By: laurenzennser http://jacobchristensen.name/2009/05/05/placing-swedish-governments-to-the-left-and-the-right/comment-page-1/#comment-841 laurenzennser Fri, 08 May 2009 14:38:11 +0000 http://jacobchristensen.name/?p=3203#comment-841 the question is also what you consider the meaning of left and right to be. is it only socio-economic policy? what about immigration or cultural issues? the environment (that is, e. g., nuclear power in the swedish case)? surely, those might not have been as prominent issues in the late seventies as they are today, but still … see, for instance, here (p. 205) for some interesting cross-national variation:
http://www.tcd.ie/Political_Science/ppmd/PPMD_11apr2006.pdf

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