Problems in Paradise?: Changes and Challenges to Swedish Democracy - Hardcoverby Daniel Silander (Editor) Just 25 years ago, Europe was engaged in a process of democratization and integration. The EU, with an expanded number of member states, became a symbol of a democratic, peaceful and prosperous Union. However, recent years have seen the reversal of democratization in many of the countries that went through political transition in the 1990s. Even in established democracies, growing authoritarian tendencies have been apparent