Swedish election corruption in a historical-comparative perspective - Photographs

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. 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.