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Social rights and social security: the Swedish welfare state, 1900-2000.
Urban Lundberg,Klas Åmark +1 more
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The road to the modern welfare state and the crisis it met during recent decades is presented.Abstract:
(2001). Social Rights and Social Security: The Swedish Welfare State, 1900-2000. Scandinavian Journal of History: Vol. 26, No. 3, pp. 157-176.read more
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Democracy, Redistribution, and Political Participation: Evidence from Sweden 1919-1950
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Gender and the Development of Welfare Regimes
TL;DR: The idea of the male-breadwinner family model has served historically to cut across established typologies of welfare regimes, and further that the model has been modified in different ways and to different degrees in particular countries as mentioned in this paper.