Understanding the Swedish Model
Understanding the Swedish Model

Author: Jan-Erik Lane

Publisher: Psychology Press

Published: 1991

Total Pages: 232

ISBN-13: 9780714634456

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First Published in 1991. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Defending the Swedish Model
Defending the Swedish Model

Author: Gregg Bucken-Knapp

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield

Published: 2009-09-24

Total Pages: 191

ISBN-13: 0739138189

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Across Europe, the prospect of a rapidly shrinking workforce has put increased labor migration back on the political agenda. However, for many on the left, concerns exist that less restrictive labor migration policies threaten core features of the social democratic project. This is perhaps clearest in Sweden, which in late 2008 adopted a liberal approach to third-country national labor migration, allowing employers to hire freely from outside the European Union. Defending the Swedish Model explores the debate leading up to this reform, focusing on the preferences of the Swedish Social Democratic Party (SAP) and the Swedish Trade Union Confederation (LO). While generally positive to the economic potential of increased labor migration, these allies remained highly skeptical towards calls from employers and bourgeois parties for liberalization. Bucken-Knapp argues that the SAP and LO develop their labor migration policy preferences on the basis of whether specific reform alternatives are perceived as being consistent with, or as undermining, the Swedish model. In the case of third-country nationals, both allies considered liberalization a threat to full employment aims, instead seeking to preserve an influential role for the state labor market board and organized labor. Bucken-Knapp also focuses on the Swedish labor migration debate prior to the 2004 enlargement of the European Union, showing how SAP concerns over potential abuse of the universal welfare state led to its support for transitional arrangements. Defending the Swedish Model illuminates the challenges faced by social democrats and trade unions when considering the need for increased labor migration.

Dumbing Down
Dumbing Down

Author: Magnus Henrekson

Publisher: Springer Nature

Published: 2022-02-20

Total Pages: 222

ISBN-13: 3030934292

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This open access book examines the challenges and issues caused by a move to a marketized education system in Sweden. Observing the introduction of the school voucher system and a postmodern social constructivist view of knowledge, the move away from objective knowledge is identified as the core reason for Sweden’s current education crisis. The impact of declining education standards on the labor market is also discussed. This book highlights the issues seen in Sweden and suggests policies that can improve education in the rest of the Western world as well. It will be relevant to students and researchers interested in education and labor economics.

The Financialization of the Swedish Growth Model
The Financialization of the Swedish Growth Model

Author: Viktor Skyrman

Publisher: Viktor Skyrman

Published: 2024-03-01

Total Pages: 277

ISBN-13: 917731297X

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Financialization, the increasing influence of financial markets, actors, practices and measurements in political, economic and social life, continues to draw attention from scholars from diverse academic fields. Contributing to the literatures on household financialization, financial market institutionalization and the financialization of nature, this dissertation explores the underlying factors that enabled and facilitated the financialization of Sweden’s growth model. Drawing from the Regulation Approach and heterodox economics, it analyzes how covered bonds, an overlooked topic in financialization studies, have contributed to “de-risking” European financial markets, decelerated the spread of securitization, and enabled an increase in mortgage lending, house price inflation and household indebtedness, especially in Sweden. Zooming in on the Nordic forest industry, the dissertation furthermore elaborates on the differential impact of financialization on non-financial firms. Amid the entrance of shareholder value ideology, it shows how innovation was undermined through R&D downsizing while dividends have been increased to shareholders at labor’s expense. Meanwhile, profitability has been supported by appreciating forest assets that are increasingly treated as a new financial asset class by the financial sector. In addition, providing data on welfare retrenchment, financialization indicators and corporate governance, while app lying a Gramscian Regulation Approach, the dissertation analyzes the structural pressures and the formation of a particular neoliberal hegemony that have shaped the financialization of Sweden’s previously universal welfare sector. Whereas financial markets have been seen as crucial for growth and employment, the dissertation furthermore documents how financial deepening has mainly resulted in increased mortgage lending, while public sector debt has increasingly been perceived as economically detrimental by policymakers. The dissertation finalizes with some stylized facts of financialization in small Wes tern economies and how they relate to Sweden.

The Oxford Handbook of the Welfare State
The Oxford Handbook of the Welfare State

Author: Francis G. Castles

Publisher: OUP Oxford

Published: 2012-09-06

Total Pages: 908

ISBN-13: 019162828X

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The Oxford Handbook of the Welfare State is the authoritative and definitive guide to the contemporary welfare state. In a volume consisting of nearly fifty newly-written chapters, a broad range of the world's leading scholars offer a comprehensive account of everything one needs to know about the modern welfare state. The book is divided into eight sections. It opens with three chapters that evaluate the philosophical case for (and against) the welfare state. Surveys of the welfare state 's history and of the approaches taken to its study are followed by four extended sections, running to some thirty-five chapters in all, which offer a comprehensive and in-depth survey of our current state of knowledge across the whole range of issues that the welfare state embraces. The first of these sections looks at inputs and actors (including the roles of parties, unions, and employers), the impact of gender and religion, patterns of migration and a changing public opinion, the role of international organisations and the impact of globalisation. The next two sections cover policy inputs (in areas such as pensions, health care, disability, care of the elderly, unemployment, and labour market activation) and their outcomes (in terms of inequality and poverty, macroeconomic performance, and retrenchment). The seventh section consists of seven chapters which survey welfare state experience around the globe (and not just within the OECD). Two final chapters consider questions about the global future of the welfare state. The individual chapters of the Handbook are written in an informed but accessible way by leading researchers in their respective fields giving the reader an excellent and truly up-to-date knowledge of the area under discussion. Taken together, they constitute a comprehensive compendium of all that is best in contemporary welfare state research and a unique guide to what is happening now in this most crucial and contested area of social and political development.

The social construction of Swedish neutrality
The social construction of Swedish neutrality

Author: Christine Agius

Publisher: Manchester University Press

Published: 2013-07-19

Total Pages: 422

ISBN-13: 1784990027

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The end of the Cold War and the ‘War on Terror’ has signalled a shift in the security policies of all states. It has also led to the reconsideration of the policy of neutrality, and what being neutral means in the present age. This book examines the conceptualisation of neutrality from the Peloponnesian War to today, uncovering how neutrality has been a neglected and misunderstood subject in International Relations (IR) theory and politics. By rethinking neutrality through constructivism, this book argues that neutrality is intrinsically linked to identity. Using Sweden as a case study, it links identity, sovereignty, internationalism and solidarity to the debates about Swedish neutrality today and how neutrality has been central to Swedish identity and its worldview. It also examines the challenges to Swedish neutrality and neutrality broadly, in terms of European integration, globalisation, the decline of the state and sovereignty, and new threats to security, such as international terrorism, arguing that the norms and values of neutrality can be reworked to contribute to a more cosmopolitan international order.

Swedish Film
Swedish Film

Author: Mariah Larsson

Publisher: Nordic Academic Press

Published: 2010-01-01

Total Pages: 368

ISBN-13: 9185509361

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A compilation of carefully selected articles written by international film scholars, this record provides an in-depth look into the history of Swedish film. This scholarly account covers various phenomena, including the early screenings at the turn of the century, Swedish censorship, the golden age of silent films, 1930s’ comedies and melodramas, documentaries, pornography, and experimental films. In addition, this volume examines the work of important contributors, such as Ingmar Bergman, Stefan Jarl, and Peter Weiss, and discusses film policies of the new millennium.