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.