![]() ![]() ![]() The story of how Sweden transformed itself from a pseudo-democratic oligarchy to one of the world's foremost social democracies, is at the heart of Piketty's massive new book, which clocks in at 1,041 pages. ![]() They proceeded to win every subsequent election until 2006. The SDP catered to their voters with stiff taxes on the rich, new protections for unions, and a cutting-edge welfare state - none of which interfered with ongoing economic growth. An organized mass movement demanded reform and universal suffrage, and when that was fully achieved by 1921 (after several rounds of reforms), the Swedish Social Democratic Party (SDP) came to power on the strength of overwhelming support from workers and farmers who had been largely locked out of the previous political system. But this political system was manifestly unfair and unpopular - part of why hundreds of thousands of Swedes emigrated to the United States during this period - and the Swedish population mobilized against it. ![]()
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