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Institutional Change in the Public Sphere - Views on the Nordic Model (Hardcover)
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Institutional Change in the Public Sphere - Views on the Nordic Model (Hardcover)
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The main focus of the book is institutional change in the
Scandinavian model, with special emphasis on Norway. There are many
reasons to pay closer attention to the Norwegian case when it comes
to analyses of changes in the public sphere. In the country's
political history, the arts and the media played a particular role
in the processes towards sovereignty at the beginning of the 20th
century. On a par with the other Scandinavian countries, Norway is
in the forefront in the world in the distribution and uses of
Internet technology. As an extreme case, the most corporatist
society within the family of the "Nordic Model", it offers an
opportunity both for intriguing case studies and for challenging
and refining existing theory on processes of institutional change
in media policy and cultural policy. It supplements two recent,
important books on political economy in Scandinavia: Varieties of
Liberalization and the New Politics of Social Solidarity (Kathleen
Thelen, 2014), and The Political Construction of Business Interests
(Cathie Jo Martin and Duane Swank, 2013). There are further reasons
to pay particular attention to the Scandinavian, and more
specifically the Norwegian cases: (i) They are to varying degrees
neo-corporatist societies, characterized by ongoing bargaining over
social and political reform processes. From a theoretical
perspective this invites reflections which, to some extent, are at
odds with the dominant conceptions of institutional change. Neither
models of path dependency nor models of aggregate, incremental
change focus on the continuous social bargaining over institutional
change. (ii) Despite recent processes of liberalization, common to
the Western world as a whole, corporatism implies a close
connection between state, public sphere, cultural life, and
religion. This also means that institutions are closely bundled, in
an even stronger way than assumed for example in the Varieties of
Capitalism literature. Furthermore, we only have scarce insight in
the way the different spheres of corporatism are connected and
interact. In the proposed edited volume we have collected
historical-institutional case studies from a broad set of social
fields (a detailed outline of contents and contributors is
attached): * Critical assessments of Jurgen Habermas' theory of the
public sphere * Can the public sphere be considered an institution?
* The central position of the public sphere in social and political
change in Norway * Digital transformations and effects of the
growing PR industry on the public sphere * Institutionalization of
social media in local politics and voluntary organizations *
Legitimation work in the public sphere * freedom of expression and
warning in the workplace * "Return of religion" to the public
sphere, and its effects
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