ABSTRACT
This chapter presents a review of sixty-four crises that involved national-level public administrators in Sweden between 1931 and 2005. The survey, in turn, paints a historical portrait of the types of crises national-level public institutions and decision-makers in Sweden found themselves drawn into and the critical decisions they faced. The discussion of the crises is centered on who the key decision-makers were, what institutions they represented, what the socio-political context of the crisis was, and how specific action or inaction during the management of the crisis influenced the accountability process. This portrait also provides a long view of changes to the social and political environment in which these crises occurred and the efforts to exert accountability were pursued.
