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Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 January 2026

Anders Widfeldt
Anders Widfeldt*
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University of Aberdeen, UK
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The political year 2014 was dominated by European and parliamentary elections, a change of government and a serious crisis for the new government shortly after taking office. Above all, events in 2014 highlighted what seems to be a new era of instability in Swedish politics.

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Political Data Yearbook , Volume 54 , Issue 1 , December 2015, pp. 286 - 293
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Copyright © 2016 European Consortium for Political Research

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