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This comprehensive and innovative book demonstrates the dynamics of
welfare policies in different socioeconomic settings by providing
comparative analyses of the Baltic and Nordic welfare state
systems. The book contributes to finding and reflecting upon
innovative solutions to common challenges in European welfare
states. Challenging conventional welfare state research, the
authors compare the Nordic countries with the welfare states of the
market-oriented democracies of the Baltic area, discussing welfare
state theories, family policy regimes and welfare state models. Top
international contributors provide a better understanding of the
complex inequalities that families and individuals are facing in
the 21st century, and cover important topics such as poverty,
social insurance and family policy in the Nordic and Baltic areas.
Challenges to the Welfare State will be of great interest to social
policy scholars and policy makers, particularly those with an
interest in the Baltic and Nordic countries. It will also be a
welcome addition to the literature for students interested in
family policy and pension protection reforms, and those with a
general interest in the contemporary welfare state studies in
Europe.
From the welfare state's origins in Europe, the idea of human
welfare being organized through a civilized, institutionalized and
uncorrupt state has caught the imagination of social activists and
policy-makers around the world. This is particularly influential
where rapid social development is taking place amidst growing
social and gender inequality. This book reflects on the growing
academic and political interest in global social policy and
'globalizing welfare', and pays particular attention to
developments in Northern European and North-East Asian countries.
Providing historical and future-oriented perspectives on welfare
issues and policies, Globalizing Welfare assesses the relevance of
the Northern European welfare experience for East Asia, and
addresses the differing ways that countries in the two regions are
responding to similar challenges of increasing inequality,
demographic change, and shifting relations between the state,
market and non-profit organizations. With topical analysis of
policy responses to these shared issues across contexts, the book
assesses how these globalized, cross-cutting issues will impact
future developments in welfare states. This book is a valuable
resource for scholars and students alike of sociology, political
science, economics, social policy and public administration,
providing up-to-date knowledge of welfare state developments. It
will also be of interest to policy-makers concerned with social
welfare globally.
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 second volume aims at
the civil society challenge to the welfare state since 1988, or
"the lost world of social democracy." It opens with an overview of
the three generations of comparative welfare state research, from
Harold Wilensky to Gosta Esping-Andersen, Theda Skocpol and
onwards. Inspired by the work of Norbert Elias, Karl Polanyi, and
Stein Rokkan as well as by Benedict Anderson, Tom Nairn and Elinor
Ostrom, the civilizing process and embeddedness of the
welfare-industrial complex are scrutinized. The author's key
concepts are imagined welfare communities, and common pool
resources in (civil) society and state. Privatization trends in
Sweden - from take-off to bonanza - and domestic resistance to the
powers of the day are then lucidly assessed, and the simultaneous
deconstruction and reconstruction of a once famous welfare state is
elaborated with force and vigour. Finally, the cross-national
Scandinavian differences are outlined. The five essays of volume II
emphasize the historical relativity of social welfare institutions
and argue against all developmental metaphysics. 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. The first volume contains the original four essays
and covers the formation and evolution of the Swedish welfare state
1884-1988. In praise of the new edition: "The publication of this
book in 1990 marked a turning point in understanding of how the
Swedish welfare state should be conceptualized both from a
historical and comparative perspective. Its combination of
sophisticated theoretical perspectives and in-depth empirical
analysis became a model for many later studies of welfare state
regimes. Added to the timely new edition is a 'volume II' sequel
that updates and deepens the analysis of how the Swedish welfare
state has fared during the era of globalization. This new edition
is a 'must read' for everyone interested in the history and future
of welfare state regimes." - Bo Rothstein, August Rohss Chair in
Political Science, University of Gothenburg In praise of the first
edition: ..". takes us beyond simple analyses, emphasizing the deep
historical roots of social democracy in Sweden and considering the
role of ideas, the organization of politics, and the activities of
social classes other than labor in building and securing Swedish
social policy. Olsson's book presents a comprehensive overview of
the development of the Swedish welfare state and a detailed
consideration of several key episodes of welfarestate development."
- American Journal of Sociology "This is a very scholarly and broad
ranging analysis of the postwar Swedish welfare state ... which is
invaluable for comparative policy analysis." - Critical Social
Policy ..". essential reading for sociologists and political
scientists." - Contemporary Sociology 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).
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).
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 second volume aims at
the civil society challenge to the welfare state since 1988, or
"the lost world of social democracy." It opens with an overview of
the three generations of comparative welfare state research, from
Harold Wilensky to Gosta Esping-Andersen, Theda Skocpol and
onwards. Inspired by the work of Norbert Elias, Karl Polanyi, and
Stein Rokkan as well as by Benedict Anderson, Tom Nairn and Elinor
Ostrom, the civilizing process and embeddedness of the
welfare-industrial complex are scrutinized. The author's key
concepts are imagined welfare communities, and common pool
resources in (civil) society and state. Privatization trends in
Sweden - from take-off to bonanza - and domestic resistance to the
powers of the day are then lucidly assessed, and the simultaneous
deconstruction and reconstruction of a once famous welfare state is
elaborated with force and vigour. Finally, the cross-national
Scandinavian differences are outlined. The five essays of volume II
emphasize the historical relativity of social welfare institutions
and argue against all developmental metaphysics. 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. The first volume contains the original four essays
and covers the formation and evolution of the Swedish welfare state
1884-1988. In praise of the new edition: "The publication of this
book in 1990 marked a turning point in understanding of how the
Swedish welfare state should be conceptualized both from a
historical and comparative perspective. Its combination of
sophisticated theoretical perspectives and in-depth empirical
analysis became a model for many later studies of welfare state
regimes. Added to the timely new edition is a 'volume II' sequel
that updates and deepens the analysis of how the Swedish welfare
state has fared during the era of globalization. This new edition
is a 'must read' for everyone interested in the history and future
of welfare state regimes." - Bo Rothstein, August Rohss Chair in
Political Science, University of Gothenburg In praise of the first
edition: ..". takes us beyond simple analyses, emphasizing the deep
historical roots of social democracy in Sweden and considering the
role of ideas, the organization of politics, and the activities of
social classes other than labor in building and securing Swedish
social policy. Olsson's book presents a comprehensive overview of
the development of the Swedish welfare state and a detailed
consideration of several key episodes of welfarestate development."
- American Journal of Sociology "This is a very scholarly and broad
ranging analysis of the postwar Swedish welfare state ... which is
invaluable for comparative policy analysis." - Critical Social
Policy ..". essential reading for sociologists and political
scientists." - Contemporary Sociology 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).
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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