Tiden
Editor-in-chiefPayam Moula
CategoriesPolitical magazine
FrequencyQuarterly
PublisherTankesmedjan Tiden
FounderHjalmar Branting
Founded1908
CountrySweden
Based inStockholm
LanguageSwedish
WebsiteTiden
ISSN0040-6759
OCLC163433420

Tiden (Swedish: The Times) is a quarterly theoretical political journal published in Stockholm, Sweden, since 1908. It is organ of the Social Democratic Party. Its original subtitle was Tidskrift för socialistisk kritik och politik (Swedish: Journal of Socialist Criticism and Politics) which is later changed to Socialdemokratisk idé- och debattidskrift (Swedish: Magazine of the Social Democratic Views and Debate).

History and profile

Tiden was established by the Swedish social democrat politician Hjalmar Branting in 1908.[1][2] It is an official publication of the Social Democratic Party[3][4] which was started to provide a platform for political and cultural discussions among the party members.[5]

Tiden was a monthly publication from 1908 to 1917.[4] In the period between 1918 and 1929 it came out eight times per year.[4] Then it was published ten times per year from 1930 to 1992.[4] From 1999 its frequency was switched to bimonthly.[4] It is published by Tankesmedjan Tiden, a leftist think tank founded in 2006, on a quarterly basis.[6] The magazine is headquartered in Stockholm.[1]

Editors and contributors

Many leading politicians from the Social Democratic Party edited Tiden, including its founder Hjalmar Branting.[4] The others included Pierre Schori and Gösta Edgren.[7] Sture Henriksson edited the magazine between 1956 and 1957.[4] Since March 2018 its editor-in-chief has been Payam Moula.[2]

The contributors of Tiden have been mostly members of the party,[7] including Olof Palme.[8] One of them was Birgitta Dahl who published articles in the magazine on gender equality.[9] Carl Lindhagen, mayor of Stockholm, argued in his article published in the magazine in 1910 that social democracy should integrate humanism and avoid dogmatism.[10]

However, Tiden has also had international contributors such as German political scientist Fritz Croner who used the term planned economy for the first time in Tiden during World War I referring to German economic planning.[11] A well-known Swedish economist Gunnar Myrdal also contributed to Tiden publishing articles on the planning of economy in Sweden.[11]

References

  1. ^ a b "Tiden Magasin". tidskrift.nu (in Swedish). Retrieved 15 August 2022.
  2. ^ a b "Om Tiden". Tiden (in Swedish). Retrieved 15 August 2022.
  3. ^ Timothy A. Tilton (Spring 1987). "Why don't the Swedish Social Democrats Nationalize Industry?". Scandinavian Studies. 59 (2): 150. JSTOR 40918846.
  4. ^ a b c d e f g "Nyckeltitel: Tiden" (in Swedish). Libris. Retrieved 15 August 2022.
  5. ^ Nils Edling (2013). "The Primacy of Welfare Politics: Notes on the language of the Swedish Social Democrats and their adversaries in the 1930s". In Heidi Haggrén; Johanna Rainio-Niemi; Jussi Vauhkonen (eds.). Multi-layered Historicity of the Present: Approaches to social science history. Helsinki: University of Helsinki. pp. 130–131. ISBN 978-952-10-8909-1.
  6. ^ Sigurd Allern; Ester Pollack (2020). "The Role of Think Tanks in the Swedish Political Landscape". Scandinavian Political Studies. 43 (3): 154. doi:10.1111/1467-9477.12180. hdl:10852/78855. S2CID 225217306.
  7. ^ a b Ian R. Barnes (September 1980). "The Changing Nature of the Swedish Aid Relationship During the Social Democratic Period of Government". Cooperation and Conflict. 15 (3): 146. doi:10.1177/001083678001500302. S2CID 153882616.
  8. ^ Leslie Derfler (2011). The Fall and Rise of Political Leaders: Olof Palme, Olusegun Obasanjo, and Indira Gandhi. New York: Palgrave Macmillan. p. 15. ISBN 978-0-230-11724-2.
  9. ^ Leila Brännström; Markus Gunneflo (2022). "Swedish Foreign Policy Feminisms: Women, Social Democracy and Capitalism". The Australian Feminist Law Journal. 47 (2): 19. doi:10.1080/13200968.2022.2088189. S2CID 250648770.
  10. ^ Jae-Hung Ahn (June 1996). "Ideology and Interest: The Case of Swedish Social Democracy, 1886-1911". Politics & Society. 24 (2): 157. doi:10.1177/0032329296024002005.
  11. ^ a b Sami Outinen (2020). "From Democratic Socialism and Rational Planning to Postmodern Identity Politics and Market-Orientation: Ideological Development of the Social Democrats in Sweden and Finland in the Late 20th Century". Työväentutkimus: 8. doi:10.37456/tvt.91142. hdl:10138/325431. S2CID 230539504.

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