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The Government of the Kingdom of Sweden (Swedish: Konungariket Sveriges regering) is the national cabinet of Sweden, and the country's executive authority. The Government consists of the Prime Minister and their cabinet ministers (Swedish: Statsråd). [1] The Government is responsible for its actions to the Riksdag.
Sweden is formally a monarchy with a monarch holding symbolic power. Sweden has a typical Western European history of democracy, beginning with the old Viking age Ting electing kings, ending with a hereditary royal power in the 14th century, that in periods became more or less democratic depending on the general European trends. The current ...
The name for Sweden is generally agreed to derive from the Proto-Indo-European root *s(w)e, meaning "one's own", referring to one's own tribe from the tribal period. [16] [17] [18] The native Swedish name, Sverige (a compound of the words Svea and rike, first recorded in the cognate Swēorice in Beowulf), [19] translates as "realm of the Swedes", which excluded the Geats in Götaland.
1672-1697 : King Charles XI of Sweden; 1697-1697 : Privy Council, government under the minority of the monarch; 1697-1718 : King Charles XII of Sweden; 1718-1738 : Chancellery President Arvid Horn, leader of a Cap Party government; 1738-1765 : Parliamentary rule with a Hat Party government; 1765-1769 : Parliamentary rule with a Cap Party government
In most parliamentary democracies, the head of state commissions a politician to form a government. Under the new Instrument of Government [12] (one of the four fundamental laws of the Constitution) enacted in 1974, that task was removed from the Monarch of Sweden and given to the Speaker of the Riksdag. To make changes to the Constitution ...
This category focuses on the work of national and local governments in Sweden. For other aspects of the political process in Sweden see Category:Politics of Sweden . Subcategories
This change in terminology reflected a significant shift in Sweden's system of government, marking the full establishment of parliamentary rule. [ 5 ] Since 1997, the Government Offices have been organized as a single agency, comprising the Prime Minister's Office, all ministries, and the Government Offices Office for Administrative Affairs ...
In 1974, it was decided that the number of seats from 1977 were to be reduced to 349. The new instrument of government adopted in 1974 left the monarch as a ceremonial head of state without political power. [9] The new instrument of government read as follows: [9] “All public power in Sweden proceeds from the people. Swedish democracy is ...