Understanding Party Dominance: The Case of the Swedish Social Democrats
The modern parliamentary system is unimaginable without political parties. The central place in any system, even undemocratic ones, is organized around a political party as the main vehicle behind politics itself (van Biezen, 2004). While loose groupings of interests supporting a certain leader or policy have been present since the emergence of parliamentarism, it is only in the last two centuries that mass-based political parties have taken center stage in political life (Scarrow, 2005). Althou...