Sammanfattning
The chapter acknowledges an early attempt in Sweden during the formative first half of the nineteenth century to govern more interactively through associations. The case is hushållningssällskapen (henceforth HHS), representing a prominent example among new associational organizations, that was at the time assigned governance functions related to agricultural and associated matters by the state. The chapter’s findings build on recent research that has shown the decisive role that such organizations could play during a time when more elaborate and persistent institutions for governance and administration were still in the making or none existent in Sweden. The results confirm that HHS provided a new arena for interaction, for instance between old elites and the emerging elites of a new societal order, and between the state and those who were affected by its policies. Furthermore, the results show that the emerging elites, represented by wealthy farmers and a rising middle class of professionals, successfully filled the seats as the old elites, nobility, and clergy, gradually retreated. While the chapter provides examples of how this arena for interaction functioned in practice, it calls for additional targeted studies of associational organizations as governance arrangements to further our understanding of Sweden’s political economy at the brink of modernity.
Originalspråk | Engelska |
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Titel på värdpublikation | New Perspectives on Swedish Economic History |
Undertitel på värdpublikation | Institutions, Infrastructure and Finance |
Redaktörer | Susanna Fellman, Jan Ottosson |
Förlag | Palgrave Macmillan |
Kapitel | 8 |
Sidor | 157-173 |
Antal sidor | 17 |
ISBN (elektroniskt) | 978-3-031-68042-7 |
ISBN (tryckt) | 978-3-031-68041-0 |
Status | Publicerad - 2024-dec.-16 |
Nationell ämneskategori
- Ekonomisk historia (50203)
Nyckelord
- governance
- agricultural history
- Associations
- institutional development
- representation
- power relations