Democracy is today a concept that is overwhelmingly positively
evaluated almost everywhere, but even the most universalistic
oriented accounts generally discuss a number of paradigmatic cases
such as Athenian democracy, French democracy, or American
democracy. A lot has been written about socio-economic and cultural
backgrounds of democratic regimes as well as their institutional
settings. By contrast, not much is known about the political
manoeuvres and speech acts by which "democracy" has been tied to
particular regions and cultures in concrete historical situations.
This book discusses a series of efforts to rhetorically produce and
reproduce a particular Nordic version of democracy. It will show
that the rhetorical figure "Nordic democracy" was a product of the
age of totalitarianism and the Cold War. It will explore the ways
in which "Nordic democracy" was used, mainly by the social
democrats, to provide the welfare politics with cultural and
historical legitimacy and foundations, and thus acknowledge the
ideological and geopolitical context in which the "Nordic welfare
state" was conceptualised and canonised.
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