This book uses Sweden as a test case to analyze how parliament and
elected representatives function in a representative democracy.
Despite the status of Scandinavian countries as perhaps the world's
most egalitarian societies, the book argues that the best summary
characterization of Swedish representative democracy is an elitist
system run from above. The book also argues that an individualist
representational model is relevant to the Swedish setting and most
likely, to other settings as well. Representative democracy is not
just party-based democracy - not even in a country with strong and
disciplined parties. The book takes a broad approach to the study
of political representation. It integrates into a single analytical
framework concepts and theories from neighbouring traditions such
as legislative behaviour, opinion formation and interest
organizations. The study is based on a comprehensive set of data,
including three surveys of the Members of the Swedish Parliament,
corresponding voter surveys and content analysis of mass media and
parliamentary records.
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