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Policy Innovation and Institutional Stability in Sweden

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 January 2009

Francis G. Castles
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Despite the greatly enhanced interest in processes of political change that political scientists have shown in recent years, there are still areas that have received attention in only the most speculative manner. Modernization, political development and comparative history are becoming established subdisciplines, reflecting ‘the change to change’. But the political processes involved in the transformation of advanced industrial societies have as yet received only cursory empirical treatment.

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British Journal of Political Science , Volume 6 , Issue 2 , April 1976 , pp. 203 - 216
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1976

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