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Social Policy, Welfare State, and Civil Society in Sweden - Volume I: History, Policies, and Institutions 1884-1988 (Hardcover, 3rd Enlarged, Reset ed.)
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Social Policy, Welfare State, and Civil Society in Sweden - Volume I: History, Policies, and Institutions 1884-1988 (Hardcover, 3rd Enlarged, Reset ed.)
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Social Policy, Welfare State, and Civil Society in Sweden I-II
gives a comprehensive account of the global invention of the
welfare state, from the far north of the West to the global East
and Southeast, and from its social policy origins to the most
recent challenges from civil society. This first volume includes
four essays, by now minor classics in welfare state literature.
"Before Social Democracy: The Early Formation of a Social Policy
Discourse in Sweden" set the stage for a research current that
shifted from state welfare to welfare mix and civil society.
"Working Class Power and the 1946 Pension Reform in Sweden"
examined a key thesis in Peter Baldwin's seminal work The Politics
of Social Solidarity, and led to a lively polemic among social
historians. The third text was first published (as "Sweden") in
volume 1 of Peter Flora's magnum opus Growth to Limits: The Western
European Welfare States Since World War II. The final essay, "The
Dialectics of Decentralization and Privatization," is a
path-breaking study of the Swedish welfare state's reconstruction
in the 1980s. The second volume covers the period since 1988 - "the
lost world of social democracy" - and recent changes in comparative
welfare state research and the Nordic Model. This work is an
updated and enlarged edition in two volumes of Sven Hort's
well-known and wide-ranging dissertation Social Policy and Welfare
State in Sweden, published under the author's birth name Sven E.
Olsson in 1990. This first volume contains the original four essays
of the first edition. In praise of the new edition: "This is an
impressive, comprehensive and knowledgeable contribution to the
analysis of the early history and long-term development of the
Swedish welfare state. Through a prime focus on reform actors at
various stages we are persuasively reminded that there was a
history before the ascendance of Social Democracy from the early
1930s, that the Social Democrats played a crucial role in the
expansionary phase, and that one must go beyond theories of class
politics to get a proper understanding of the evolution and
characteristics of the modern welfare state." - Stein Kuhnle,
Professor in Comparative Politics, Hertie School of Governance and
University of Bergen "The development of the Swedish welfare state
is often sketched in fairly simplistic terms. Professor Hort's
analysis remains the most penetrating of the complex and
fascinating interplay between politics, social forces, and economic
development that explains much of the intricacies of the system
that eventually emerged." - Gunnar Wetterberg, The Royal Swedish
Academy of Sciences Sven E. O. Hort is Professor in Social Welfare
at the College of Social Sciences, Seoul National University,
Korea. He is an alumnus of Lund University. In Sweden he taught
sociology at Linneaus and Sodertorn universities. Currently he is
the chief editor of the Swedish journal Arkiv. Tidskrift for
samhallsanalys and a deputy editor of European Societies. With
Stein Kuhnle he is the author of "The Coming of East and South-East
Asian Welfare States," Journal of European Social Policy (2000).
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