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ABSTRACT The article describes the development of Swedish environmental policy by paying attention to the context of Swedish political culture. It describes the successes and, mainly, the failures of Sweden's environmental policy since the late sixties and traces its less-than-satisfactory state to the political culture of a welfare state which for a long time tended to view environmental concerns as likely to upset the socioeconomic welfare policies based on cost-effectiveness and anti-inflationary policies. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]