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Reform Capacity
It is often said that effective government requires a concentration of power. If we want our political leaders to adjust public policies to changing economic, social, and political circumstances, we should, in this view, leave our leaders alone: we should put in place electoral procedures that identify a clear winner in each election, and then we should let the winning political party govern without having to cooperate with others. The argument of this book is that this view is mistaken, since it seriously underestimates the ability of political decision makers to overcome democratic paralysis by compensating losers (groups that stand to lose from a reform). Reform capacity - the ability of ...
Inward Conquest
Examining schools, libraries, prisons, asylums, and vaccines, this study is the first comprehensive look at the origins of public services.
Mass Unemployment and the State
Mass Unemployment and the State shows that domestic political arrangements have mattered greatly to the economic and labor market policies that European governments pursued in response to the problem of unemployment from the early 1970s to the present day.
The Politics of Purpose
This article develops three models of economic policymaking - the politics of bargaining, the politics of expertise and the politics of purpose - and uses these models to explain why Swedish governments made low inflation the primary objective of macroeconomic policy ten to fifteen years later than the governments of most other advanced democracies. The argument is that major economic policy shifts are caused by the disintegration of established norms regarding the purpose of political authority. Neither structural economic change nor the introduction of new economic ideas made Swedish governments give up the defense of full employment; this only happened after the set of norms that constituted Sweden's political culture changed in the late 1980s.
The Oxford Handbook of Swedish Politics
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Inward Conquest
Examining schools, libraries, prisons, asylums, and vaccines, this study is the first comprehensive look at the origins of public services.
Citizenship, Migration and Social Rights
The tensions between European conceptions of the welfare state and transnational migration have caused heated political, public, and academic debates over the last decades. Historiography, however, has not yet explored in depth how European societies struggled with this dilemma-filled relationship in the formative phases of modern welfare states from the late nineteenth century to the post-war era. The present volume contributes to filling this gap and thus to putting a highly topical issue into historical perspective. The focus is on Europe, but with a wide geographic scope that reaches also across the Atlantic. Following an introductory chapter, eleven case studies deal with four themes. T...
Strong Governments, Precarious Workers
Why do some European welfare states protect unemployed and inadequately employed workers ("outsiders") from economic uncertainty better than others? Philip Rathgeb’s study of labor market policy change in three somewhat-similar small states—Austria, Denmark, and Sweden—explores this fundamental question. He does so by examining the distribution of power between trade unions and political parties, attempting to bridge these two lines of research—trade unions and party politics—that, with few exceptions, have advanced without a mutual exchange. Inclusive trade unions have high political stakes in the protection of outsiders, because they incorporate workers at risk of unemployment in...
