FYI re research in Sweden:
 
http://www.hv.se/forskn/projekt/22.html
 
 
         Alcohol prohibition and society in a comparative
perspective. The Nordic countries and the United States in
    the time of prohibition, 1900 - 1932.
>
  Johansson, Lennart (project leader)
 
       Project period 1994 - 1998
 
>       Project        The aim of this research project is to analyze
>       abstract       and explain by international comparisons why
>                      prohibition was introduced in the USA, Finland
>                      and Norway in the 1910s, whereas the idea was
>                      rejected in Sweden, Denmark and other West
>                      European countries. In the project are studied
>                      the strength of the temperance movement, the
>                      extent of alcohol consumption, drinking
>                      cultures, the strength of the religious and
>                      radical movements, the links between economics
>                      and employment on one hand and prohibition on
>                      the other, and the First World War, as a basis
>                      for a more general understanding of
>                      socio-politically radical decisions, whereby an
>                      image is created of the political culture which
>                      enables the taking of radical alcohol-political
>                      decisions.