Scope
The Instrument of Government (Swedish: Regeringsformen) - one of the Fundamental Laws of the Realm - sets out the responsibilities and duties of the Government, the Prime Minister and other Cabinet Ministers.
In a unique feature of the Swedish constitutional system, individual Cabinet Ministers do not bear any individual ministerial responsibility for the performance of the agencies within their portfolio (they formally report directly to the Government), and are prohibited to act unilaterally (thus the origin of the pejorative (in Swedish political parlance) term ministerstyre ) in matters handled by the individual agencies, unless specifically provided for in law.
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“The scope of modern government in what it can and ought to accomplish for its people has been widened far beyond the principles laid down by the old “laissez faire” school of political rights, and the widening has met popular approval.”
—William Howard Taft (1857–1930)
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