num_pages: 227
description: This Ph.D. thesis explores the limits of political rationality. By investigating two cases of unexpectedly adaptive policymaking by newcomers to power the writer inquires into the need, felt even by modern politicians, to be recognized as "worthy" performers in the role of ruler-even at the cost of abandoning ideological principles.
title: Newcomers to Power: How to Sit on Someone Else's Throne. Socialists Conquer France in 1981, Non-Socialists Conquer Sweden in 1976
titlecomplete: Newcomers to Power: How to Sit on Someone Else's Throne. Socialists Conquer France in 1981, Non-Socialists Conquer Sweden in 1976 (Skrifter Utgivna Av Statsvetenskapliga Foreningen I Uppsala, 148)
publisher: Uppsala Universitet