A Political History of Sport in Sweden

In: Palgrave Studies in Sport and Politics

Abstract

Chapter 1. Introduction -- Chapter 2. Sport from above -- Chapter 3. A Swedish invention that conquered the world -- Chapter 4: The development of Swedish sport until the 1930s -- Chapter 5: The development of Swedish sport politics until the 1930s -- Chapter 6. The Social Democrats conquer sport -- Chapter 7: The golden age of sport respectability – the post-war period -- Chapter 8: The golden age of the Swedish sport model -- Chapter 9. The polarisation of sport in the post-industrial era -- Chapter 10: Sport – a political exception?