The Institutionalization of Modernity: Shocks and Crises in Germany and Sweden
This article asks why German political history has been so full of upheavals whereas Swedish political history has been comparatively calm. This is particularly curious given that the shocks the two countries have experiences -- modernization, industrialization, etc -- are similar. For some reason, however, these shocks were not translated into crises in the case of Sweden, whereas in the case of Germany they were. The answer is institutional. Sweden had better, more flexible yet more stable, institutions than Germany.
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