Nordic Nostalgia and Nordic Light: the Swedish model as Utopia 1930–2007
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In the last decade, Sweden has emerged on the other side of the 1990s crisis with, if not its self-image intact, then at least a reasserted confidence as, once again, the most modern country in the world as mentioned in this paper.Abstract:
In the last decade, Sweden has emerged on the other side of the 1990s crisis with, if not its self-image intact, then at least a reasserted confidence as, once again, the most modern country in the ...read more
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Imagined communities: Reflections on the origin and spread of nationalism
TL;DR: In this paper, Imagined communities: Reflections on the origin and spread of nationalism are discussed. And the history of European ideas: Vol. 21, No. 5, pp. 721-722.
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Growing public - social spending and economic growth since the eighteenth century
TL;DR: Addison and Siebert as discussed by the authors describe anti-union legislation in the UK during the period 19801993 and relate it to the recent decline of unionism, and discuss the prospect of new legislation seeking to regulate the employment relation from the level of the European Union.
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Nordic Exceptionalism Revisited: Explaining the Paradox of a Janus-Faced Penal Regime
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TL;DR: The authors examines the split in the foundation of the Swedish welfare state: it simultaneously promotes individual well-being in the social sphere but enables intrusive deprivations of liberty and in some cases, violates the principles of human rights.
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Nordic Exceptionalism revisited : Explaining the paradox of a Janus-faced penal regime
TL;DR: The Nordic penal regimes are Janus-faced: one side relatively mild and benign; the other intrusive, disciplining and oppressive as discussed by the authors. But this paradox has not been fully grasped or explained by the Nordic Excep...
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Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism
TL;DR: In this paper, Anderson examines the creation and global spread of the 'imagined communities' of nationality and explores the processes that created these communities: the territorialisation of religious faiths, the decline of antique kingship, the interaction between capitalism and print, the development of vernacular languages-of-state, and changing conceptions of time.
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Imagined communities: Reflections on the origin and spread of nationalism
TL;DR: In this paper, Imagined communities: Reflections on the origin and spread of nationalism are discussed. And the history of European ideas: Vol. 21, No. 5, pp. 721-722.
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Modern Social Imaginaries
TL;DR: The Modern Moral Order and the Specter of idealism as discussed by the authors have been identified as the foundations of the modern social imagination, and the modern moral order has been called the "Social Imaginary".
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Just institutions matter : the moral and political logic of the universal welfare state
TL;DR: Rothstein this paper argues that the choice of such institutions at certain formative moments in a country's history is what determines the political support for different types of social policy, and thus explains the great variation among contemporary welfare states in terms of differing moral and political logics which have been set in motion by the deliberate choices of political institutions.