Herbert Tingsten

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Herbert Tingsten

Herbert Lars Gustaf Tingsten (17 March 1896 – 26 December 1973) was a Swedish political scientist, writer and newspaper publisher. He was a professor of political science at Stockholm University from 1935 to 1946, and executive editor of the newspaper Dagens Nyheter from 1946 to 1959.

Herbert Tingsten was born in Järfälla, Stockholm County, the son of city servant Karl Tingsten and his wife Elin Bergenstjerna. He finished his doctoral thesis in 1923 while working as secretary in the Swedish parliament's Committee on the Constitution. As a political scientist his main fields included constitutional history, constitutional law and the history of ideas.

Tingsten changed his political views several times during his life. In his early youth he was a conservative and later a radical left-wing liberal. During the 1920s he joined the Swedish Social Democratic Party and was on the left-wing faction of the party. In 1941 he wrote Den svenska socialdemokratiens idéutveckling ("The Ideological Development of the Swedish Social Democrats"), where he criticized the party for not fulfilling the marxist goals of nationalizations of the private industry. However, after reading Friedrich Hayek's The Road to Serfdom in 1944, Tingsten became a convinced believer in a free market economy and in 1945 he left the Social Democratic Party. He was one of the original participators of the Mont Pelerin Society, founded in 1947.

Tingsten was an early opponent of Nazism, which he warned against during the early 1930s, as well as of the threat of Communism. During his time as executive editor of Dagens Nyheter, Tingsten argued for Swedish membership in NATO. He also supported Israel.

In a number of books and publications, Tingsten anticipated some of the major issues in the political developments of the 20th century, such as the rise of fascism, apartheid in South Africa, the transition of socialism into social democracy as well as the need for democratic vitality in Western societies. Tingsten had a deep erudition in both Anglo-Saxon and Continental European science and literature. He created the concept of political behaviour in his 1936 book, pioneering the analysis of election statistics.

Published works

Note: The following list includes original editions only, not later published or translated editions.
  • Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. [The referendum institution in United States of North America (sic)]
  • Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. [Constitutional warrant laws in modern parliaments]
  • Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.[Prohibition law results in the United States of North America (sic)]
  • Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. [Studies over the constitutional committee's decharge procedure : some questions in connection to later praxis]
  • Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. [American democracy : constitution of the United States State-life]
  • Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. [Studies regarding ministerial governance]
  • Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. [The governmental expansion during and after the world war : studies on constitutional warrant laws]
  • Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. [From parliamentarism to dictatorship : The fascist conquest of Italy]
  • Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. [Investigation regardin the introduction of an agenda institute among other things ]
  • Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. [The national dictatorship : The nazi and fascist ideas]
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  • Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. [The conservative ideas]
  • Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. [The Swedish social democrat's idea development]
  • Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. [Idea critique]
  • Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. [Problems in Swedish democracy]
  • Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. [Current federation states]
  • Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. [Debate regarding Nordic unity]
  • Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. [Swedish foreign policy debate between the world wars]
  • Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. [English colonial debate]
  • Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. [Peace and security after the second world war : a Swedish discussion post]
  • Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. [Democracy's problem]
  • Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. [Problems in the USA]
  • Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. [Argument]
  • Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. [The Revolution's inheritors : South American perspective]
  • Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. [Problems in West Germany]
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  • Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. [Ideas and geniuses]
  • Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. [Problems in South Africa]
  • Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. [Parties and Politics]
  • Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. [Japan]
  • Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. [The threatened Israel]
  • Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. [On the war path]
  • Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. [At the market place]
  • Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. [Opinions and motives]
  • Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. [My life]
  • Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. [Should the royal power be strengthened : critique of the constitutional recommendation]
  • Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. [Victoria and the Victorians]
  • Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. [When Churchill ceased power and other essays]
  • Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. [From idea to idyll : the happy democracy]
  • Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. [Strugle around the idyll]
  • Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. [Notices on life and death]
  • Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. [Journal from America]
  • Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. [My political horizon and other essays]
  • Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. [God and fatherland : studies of a hundred years of school propaganda]
  • Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. [When dusk falls]
  • Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. [Perspective on business debate]
  • Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. [Companion for my thoughts]
  • Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. [Escape attempt(s?) : notices 1971-1972]

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