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Abstract: Civil society organizations are found in all possible parts of Swedish society, conducting a multitude of different tasks, involving all types of people in a rainbow-like organizational plethora. We can understand civil society development as a number of waves of interpretations of problems and new needs in society – and the particular social movements and other organizational solutions developed to meet these problems

and needs. It is argued that the different traditions found in these waves are replacing each other in a slow process as the dominant – but not only – civil society tradition in a country. In this paper, this process is recognized as an important factor in deciding how a country’s civil society is shaped. In three tables, the situation of civil society in Sweden is compared to the situation in other countries. The resulting picture of a rather extreme end position for civil society organizations in Sweden is used as a background to discuss the future, particularly in relation to the state sphere and that of industry and trade.

Keywords: Sweden; civil society; nonprofit sector; popular movement; association; foundation

30 pages, May 21, 2004

Note: Prepared for and presented at Yonsei University 21-22 May 2004 (The 1st International Korean Studies Workshop on: “Civil Society & Consolidating Democracy in Comparative Perspective”)

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