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To: SeekAndFind
Sweden is a traditional authoritarian state with a king and a limited franchise ~ in their case the people vote for politicians who then set the national agenda.

Most likely not the best form of government.

70 posted on 05/25/2013 11:43:44 AM PDT by muawiyah
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To: muawiyah
Sweden is a traditional authoritarian state with a king and a limited franchise ~ in their case the people vote for politicians who then set the national agenda.

On one level this is correct and on another completely inaccurate.

Sweden is a parliamentary democracy, with members of the Riskdag elected on a proportional basis. Thus people vote not for a representative for their district, as in US and UK, but for a party, which then doles out its seats by its own criteria. A great many other countries operate on a similar system, which allows minority opinions to have some voice in the government.

We could have a good argument over whether this is a more or less democratic system than ours, but it is certainly not authoritarian in any real sense of the term.

As far as a "limited franchise" goes, Sweden had effective universal suffrage roughly 40 years before the US did.

108 posted on 05/25/2013 2:53:45 PM PDT by Sherman Logan
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