The Rise and Fall of Swedish Social Democracy

Kjell Östberg's book traces the Social Democratic Party (SAP)'s dominance in Sweden from 1932 to 1976, highlighting its welfare state achievements like income justice, health insurance, and social policies that improved quality of life.

It analyzes the party's origins in class struggles, revolutionary periods, breakthroughs in the 1930s, fractures in the 1960s-70s, and eventual adaptation to neoliberalism, privatization, and rising inequality, marking the end of the Swedish model.