Scottish involvement in the Swedish Riksdag of the seventeenth century: the period from Parliamentarianism to Absolutism, c.1632-1700

This article discusses the role of one migrant ethnic group (in this case the Scots) and follows its involvement in the Swedish Parliament (Riksdag) in the early modern period. It seeks to establish whether the Scots used their ethnicity to form a particular constituency within the Swedish Parliament, or if they had become so well integrated into Swedish society that they sat in the Riksdag as Swedes regardless of their ethnic links. In doing so, this article contributes to a number of areas of interest beyond parliamentary history, not least in the fields of ethnic integration and societal acceptance in early modern Sweden.