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The Madisonian Turn
Parliamentary democracy is the most common regime type in the contemporary political world, but the quality of governance depends on effective parliamentary oversight and strong political parties. Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway, and Sweden have traditionally been strongholds of parliamentary democracy. In recent years, however, critics have suggested that new challenges such as weakened popular attachment, the advent of cartel parties, the judicialization of politics, and European integration have threatened the institutions of parliamentary democracy in the Nordic region. This volume examines these claims and their implications. The authors find that the Nordic states have moved away fro...
Welfare States and Immigrant Rights
Welfare States and Immigrant Rights deals with the policies and politics of immigrants' inclusion and exclusion in six countries representing different types of welfare states: the United States, the United Kingdom, Germany, France, Sweden, and Denmark.
Socialdemokrater möter invandrare
I få städer har socialdemokraterna haft en så dominant ställning som i Landskrona under 1900-talet. Länge har också invandrare kommit dit, som arbetskraft eller på flykt undan krig och förtryck i sina ursprungsländer. Men trots arbetarrörelsens uttalade engagemang för att invandrarna ska välkomnas och integreras väl tycks främlingsfientliga strömningar ha fått ett särskilt starkt fäste i Landskrona. I Socialdemokrater möter invandrare analyserar historikern Hans Wallengren arbetarrörelsens sätt att hantera invandring, segregation och främlingsfientlighet i Landskrona efter 1945. Han blottlägger attityder, handlingar och tänkesätt som påverkat arbetet och format arbe...
Segregation and Mistrust
By examining social networks in North America, Europe and Australia, this book argues segregation, not diversity reduces trust between people.
Religious Complexity in the Public Sphere
This book is an empirical comparative study of the complexity of religion in the public spheres of the five Nordic countries. The result of a five-year collaborative research project, the work examines how increasingly religiously diverse Nordic societies regulate, debate, and negotiate religion in the state, the polity, the media, and civil society. The project finds that there are seemingly contradictory religious trends at different social levels: a growing secularization at the individual level, and a deprivatization of religion in politics, the media, and civil society. It offers a critique of the current theories of secularization and the return of religion, introducing religious complexity as an alternative concept to understand these paradoxes. This book is for scholars, students, and readers with an interest in understanding the public role of religion in the West.
National Relations
In Stockholm in January of 1945, an assembly of Swedish diplomats and businessmen initiated an organization that was to improve the country’s reputation abroad. The new, semi-governmental Swedish Institute was charged with explaining Sweden’s policy of neutrality during the war, with encouraging peace-building, and with promoting foreign trade in the new international world order. Original and insightful, this account analyzes the policies, funding, and national narratives of the Swedish Institute. Providing a historical perspective on the politics of Swedish propaganda and explaining how ideas of communication shaped the Institute’s work and its representations of Sweden, this record also offers a comparative perspective on American national identity and its inherent notions of national exceptionalism.
Contested Technologies
Addressing the important perspectives on xenotransplantation and human embryonic stem cell research, this book explores both the enthusiastic proponents and vehement resistance to these new biomedical technologies. Investigating the political, social, and ethical forces behind this kind of research and development, as well as the commercial actors and strong financial incentives that are necessary, these stories of hope, fear, and hype are matched by stories of success, failure, and fraud, showing how these technologies have become truly polarizing.
