Constitutional Reforms of the 1970s and the Performance of Swedish Governance: Statistical Evidence

Abstract

Swedish constitutional documents are relatively easy to modify and so continue to be a work in progress. However, the last major reform of the basic procedures and constraints under which governmental decisions are made took place in the 1970s. Although the major reforms were adopted with broad support within the Riksdag, not all of the changes adopted can be regarded as improvements based on the abstract analysis of part II. The matter taken up in the present chapter is whether the problems anticipated by the theoretical analysis have in fact materialized.