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Johan Matz, photo.

Johan Matz

Associate professor | Senior lecturer | Director Intelligence analysis studies

Johan Matz, photo.

Intelligence Oversight in Sweden and the Role of the Opposition : Three Intelligence Crises and their Political Repercussions

Author

  • Johan Matz

Editor

  • Kira Vrist Rönn
  • Diderichsen Adam
  • Hartmann Mia
  • Melanie Hartvigsen

Summary, in English

The role of the parliamentary opposition remains conspicuously absent in the literature on intelligence accountability and oversight. This chapter addresses the role of the parliamentary opposition in the oversight of Sweden’s intelligence agencies. In the first section, this chapter addresses the so-called institutional opportunity structures, whereby the opposition may challenge the majority on issues of intelligence; in the second section, the chapter approaches three crises of intelligence in Sweden through the prism provided by the oppositional politics perspectives.

Department/s

  • Department of Political Science

Publishing year

2024

Language

English

Pages

105-118

Publication/Series

Intelligence Practices in High-Trust Societies: Scandinavian Exceptionalism?

Document type

Book chapter

Publisher

Routledge

Topic

  • Political Science

Status

Published

ISBN/ISSN/Other

  • ISBN: 978-1-032-61703-9