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The Politics of Transition: The Swedish Case

The defeat of the Swedish Social Democratic Party (SAP) in the general election of September 1991 places in jeopardy the social-democratic framework of Swedish society which has operated with considerable success for over half a century. During the only previous occasion in the past 55 years in which a bourgeois coalition assumed governmental power, from 1976 to 1982, that framework was left untouched. This time there will be considerable pressure to break with tradition. Although Conservative Prime Minister Carl Bildt presides over a shaky four party ‘bourgeois bloc’ which does not command a parliamentary majority, the electoral support for the SAP (37.6 per cent) was the lowest since 1928. Yet little over a decade ago a number of writers argued that the Swedish ‘model’ of welfare capitalism provided a sound basis for the development of fully-fledged socialism. In particular they emphasised the significance of wage earner funds in gradually transferring the ownership of the means of production to the workers. In support of this argument Walter Korpi’s 7