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Zusatztext 'This is an important book as a valuable resource for policy makers who want to study and maybe appropriate the Nordic welfare model. Its in-depth material transmits the message that such a transformation is not straightforward. But it does provide the information to assess such a process.' - Yitzhak Berman, European Centre for Social Welfare Policy and Research'The collection as a whole will be aninvalueable resource for Scandinavianists and comparative welfare state researchers, especially the editors own introductory essay on The Nordic Welfare Model and the Idea of Universalism, which is quite simply the best chapter-length treatment of that topic I know. - Political Studies Review Informationen zum Autor Nanna Kildal is a Researcher at Stein Rokkan Centre for Social Studies, University of Bergen. Her current research interests are normative studies of welfare policies and studies of policy transfer. She has written a number of articles on the 1990s welfare reforms in Europe and USA. Stein Kuhnle is Professor of Comparative Politics at the University of Bergen. Among his recent publications in English are (ed.) Survival of the European Welfare State (Routledge, 2000); The Nordic welfare state in a European context: dealing with new economic and ideological challenges in the 1990s , European Review, Vol. 8, No. 3, 379-398 (2000); and Democracy and Productive Welfare: European and Korean Welfare Policy Development in Perspective , and The Journal of the Korean Economy , Vol. 3, No. 1, 59-83 (Spring 2002). Klappentext This book conveys analyses! perspectives and interpretations of the normative foundation of the unique 'Nordic welfare state model' which are relevant across the globe. Zusammenfassung This book conveys analyses, perspectives and interpretations of the normative foundation of the unique 'Nordic welfare state model' which are relevant across the globe. Inhaltsverzeichnis Part One: Normative Foundations: Historical Perspectives 1. Nanna Kildal and Stein Kuhnle - The Principle of Universalism: Tracing a Key Idea in the Scandinavian Welfare Model 2. Bo Stråth - The Normative Foundations of the Scandinavian Welfare States in Historical Perspective 3. Lars Bo Kaspersen - The Origin, Development, Consolidation and Transformation of the Danish Welfare State 4. Anders Nordlund - Nordic Social Politics in the Late 20th Century - an Analysis of the Political Reform Agenda Part Two: Normative Tensions 5. Birte Siim and Anette Borchorst - The Women-friendly Welfare State Revisited 6. Jan Otto Andersson and Olli Kangas - Universalism in the Age of Workfare: Attitudes to Basic Income in Sweden and Finland 7. Olavi Kaukonen and Kerstin Stenius - Comprehensiveness under Threat? From Administrative Coercion to Professional Subordination of Substance Misusers 8. Sven E. O. Hort - Three Normative Worlds in Three Welfare Projects during the 1990s - Decennium Horribilis? Part Three: Towards a Paradigm Shift? 9. Rune Ervik - Changing Normative Bases of the Nordic Welfare States? The Case of Pension Provision in Norway 10. Marcus Carson - Paradigm Shift to System Shift in the Swedish Welfare State 11. Stéfan Olafsson - Welfare Regime Shift in Iceland? 12. Jørn Loftager - Which Democracy - Whose Welfare?...
