Swedish election corruption in a historical-comparative perspective

Creator/Principal investigator(s):

Jan Teorell - Lund University, Department of Political Science orcid

Description:

This is a study of historical election related legal cases in Sweden. Documentation is only available in Swedish.

Purpose:

The aim of this research project is to describe and explain how and why corrupt electoral practices were abolished in established democracies.

Subject area:

elections, HISTORY (CESSDA Topic Classification)
Social Sciences, Political Science, History (The Swedish standard of fields of research 2011)

Keywords:

election campaigns, appeals (legal), criminal courts, constituencies, photography, political corruption, qualitative data, political history, 18th century, 19th century, texts, paleography, manuscript, handwriting, cursive, kurrent

Principal organisation:

Lund University

Accessibility status:

Access to data through SND
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Homepage:

Lund university, Department of Political Science

Responsible department/unit:

Lund University

Creator/Principal investigator(s):

Jan Teorell - Lund University, Department of Political Science orcid

Identifiers:

SND-ID: SND 0965

Description:

This is a study of historical election related legal cases in Sweden. Documentation is only available in Swedish.

Purpose:

The aim of this research project is to describe and explain how and why corrupt electoral practices were abolished in established democracies.

Language:

Swedish

Geographic spread:

Geographic location: Sweden

Lowest geographic unit:

Constituency

Highest geographic unit:

National area (NUTS2)

Unit of analysis:

Time Method:

Sampling procedure:

Total universe/Complete enumeration

Funding:

Swedish Research Council — Ref. VR 2008:1843

Subject area:

elections, HISTORY (CESSDA Topic Classification)
Social Sciences, Political Science, History (The Swedish standard of fields of research 2011)

Keywords:

election campaigns, appeals (legal), criminal courts, constituencies, photography, political corruption, qualitative data, political history, 18th century, 19th century, texts, paleography, manuscript, handwriting, cursive, kurrent

Available documentation:

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Publications

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Teorell, J. (2012). Omval och andra omtagningar under 300 år. In L. Berg & H. Oscarsson (ed.), Omstritt omval (p. 39-54). Gothenburg: SOM-institutet.
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Teorell, J. (2013). Varför är valfusk så ovanligt i Sverige?. In Statsvetenskapens frågor. (p. 75-83). Lund: Studentlitteratur.
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Version 1.0:

2015-09-15 doi:10.5878/002721

Dataset 1

Swedish election corruption - Variable data

Suggested citation:

Jan Teorell. Lund University (2015). Swedish election corruption - Variable data. Swedish National Data Service. Version 1.0. https://doi.org/10.5878/002721

Creator/Principal investigator(s):

Jan Teorell - Lund University, Department of Political Science orcid

Description:

This dataset is made up of an MS-Excel file containing information regarding election related legal cases in Sweden between the years of 1713 and 1869. Currently data is only available in Swedish and only presented in this .xcl-format.

Photo documentation and transcription of old texts.

Keywords:

election campaigns, appeals (legal), criminal courts, constituencies, political corruption, qualitative data, political history

Data format / data structure:

Still image

Collection methodology:

Review of relevant material in the Swedish National Archives

Time period(s) investigated:

1713 — 1869

Variables:

90

Version 1.0:

2015-09-15 doi:10.5878/002722

Dataset 2

Swedish election corruption - Photographs

Suggested citation:

Jan Teorell. Lund University (2015). Swedish election corruption - Photographs. Swedish National Data Service. Version 1.0. https://doi.org/10.5878/002722

Creator/Principal investigator(s):

Jan Teorell - Lund University, Department of Political Science orcid

Description:

This dataset contains 12296 photographies of election related legal cases in Sweden through the eighteenth and nineteenth century. The photos are in TIFF-format and depict hand written texts in books and on archive cards, photographed at the National Archives. Example images can be found in the documentations tab above.

Keywords:

photography

Data format / data structure:

Still image

Collection methodology:

Review of relevant material in the Swedish National Archives

Time period(s) investigated:

1713 — 1869

Published: 2015-07-22