Democracy Issues

The democracy policy aims to safeguard and deepen Swedish democracy and includes measures to both stimulate greater and more equitable citizen participation and to promote human rights.

An important part of this work involves efforts to ensure a high voter turnout as well as to increase citizen influence and participation between elections.
The policy focuses on three aspects:

• Strengthening the conditions for participation,
• Removing obstacles to participation, and,
• Creating opportunities for greater and more equitable participation

Working for democracy also means strengthening the way democracy functions at municipal, regional and national levels, combating and preventing violence and threats against politicians and promoting, for example, the development of e-democracy.

Sweden takes part in and also contributes to the development of forums and processes for democracy development issues in the Council of Europe, the EU, the UN and other international contexts.