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Constitutional monarchy based on parliamentary. They have an elected Prime Minister who serves for 4 years until the next election. Very similar to the Political system in the UK.

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Sport and Exercise for Life (SOU 1998:76), and the subsequent government bill A Sports Policy for the 21st Century – Public Health, Popular Movement and Entertainment.

Sport, it was argued, needed to deal with ‘new’ problems such as doping, violence, racism, gender discrimination and segregation.

The Swedish Sports Confederation funds were distributed to 20,164 sport clubs and their 3,147,000 members in exchange for the realisation of social policies on public health and the fostering of democratic citizens.

Starting point for voluntary and membership-based club sport in its present form and organisation, was the establishment of the umbrella organisation.

A growth of voluntarism and nationalism, competitive sports, imported from England, increased in popularity (Norberg, 2002).

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The 1967 abolition of the long-standing amateur rule propelled the professionalisation of sport (Wikberg 2005).
This process, aided by government decisions, made following the public inquiry Sport for All, paved the way for and was fuelled by the establishment of academic training of professional coaches and managers in 1973, training of future professional athletes at upper secondary elite sport schools in 1979, limited sport companies in 1999 and foreign investors in 2000.

Due to strengthening of the SSC the position vis-a-vis both the Gymnastics Federation and other movements with ambitions to benefit from the gambling revenues, also it was decided that the SSC should be solely responsible for the distribution of the grant (Norberg, 2002).

It was the sport clubs responsibility to ensure that the operation and maintenance of the facility, therefore this is the reason why there was a lack of overall planning, control or monitoring (Sjoblom,2006)

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‘The Handshake’, in 2002–2006 was to encourage sport organisations to intensify cooperation with schools, invest more in girls’ participation, prevent drug use and to reduce fees for participation, with the overarching aim of opening doors to sport for more children and youth.

The main policy priority is mass participation through widened recruitment and decrease of drop-out rates.

The aim is to explain how government involvement in sport has developed on both national and local levels, and with what consequences.

In 1903, the Swedish Sports Confederation, considered the official starting point for voluntary and membership-based sport.Voluntary and membership-based club sport was given a leading role in the fostering and promotion of health and democracy, especially through the extensive expansion of sport facilities (Sjoblom,2006).

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Century-long relationship between national and local governments and voluntary, non-profit and membership-based club sport which has resulted in extensive financial support to organised sport.

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Sport policy in Sweden, Josef Fahlen & Cecilia Stenling, 2016.

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Sport policy in Sweden, Josef Fahlen & Cecilia Stenling, 2016.