As to judicial intervention in politics, Sweden sides with skepti cal states like the United Kingdom or Third and Fourth Republic France. The Social Democrats, in power for more than four decades, have consis tently defended a majoritarian and popular sovereignty view of democracy, hostile to built-in checks on the elected representatives. But judgments of the European Court on Human Rights at Strasbourg, and a gradual weakening of the Social Democratic dominance in Swedish politics, have initiated a slow but steady process toward a more significant role for court litigation and the judicial branch. This judicialization of the political process will probably accelerate now that interest organizations have discovered this "American" way of influencing politics.
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