This book empirically analyzes how a minority can succeed in having its way in a modern democracy.
Identifying Arrow\'s paradox, Prisoner\'s Dilemma, and other famous game-theoretic matrices, eight important issues in Swedish parliamentary history are explained: the tariff issue in the 1880s, the introduction of universal suffrage, the introduction of parli.
The author applies modern rational choice theory to examine such paradoxical triumphs in Swedish domestic Politics over the past 100 years.
This book empirically analyzes how a minority can succeed in having its way in a modern democracy