ABSTRACT
The organizational changes and experiences of the Swedish Green party, Miljöpartiet de Gröna, during the 1980s and 1990s undoubtedly reflects familiar battles within many green parties regarding the challenge of implementing an unconventional party style into what is a very conventional party system. During this period, as this chapter will discuss, the party was forced into a significant overhaul of its organizational structures and format, as it sought to establish itself within the Swedish party system and break the long standing five-party stranglehold on political representation. Interestingly, however, the Swedish Greens were able to adopt a pragmatic reassessment of organizational structures without the large-scale party factionalism and debates witnessed in many other green parties.
