Normative foundations of the welfare state : the Nordic experience / edited by Nanna Kildal and Stein Kuhnle.

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TextSeries: Routledge/EUI studies in the political economy of welfare ; 7.Publication details: London ; New York : Routledge, 2005.Description: 1 online resource (x, 262 pages)Content type:

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0415349435
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0203695240
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1281157953
9781281157959
9786611157951
6611157956
9781134272839
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9781134272785
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9780415429764
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HV318 .N644 2005eb

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Contents:

Chapter 1 Introduction / NANNA KILDAL -- part PART I Normative foundations: historical perspectives -- chapter 2 The Nordic welfare model and the idea of universalism1 / NANNA KILDAL -- chapter 3 The normative foundations of the Scandinavian welfare states in historical perspective / B O STRÅTH -- chapter 4 The origin, development, consolidation and transformation of the Danish welfare state / LARS B O KASPERSEN -- chapter 5 Nordic social politics in the late twentieth century: an analysis of the political reform agenda / ANDERS NORDLUND -- part PART II Normative tensions -- chapter 6 The women-friendly welfare states revisited1 / BIRTE SIIM -- chapter 7 Universalism in the age of workfare: attitudes to basic income in Sweden and Finland / JAN OTTO ANDERSSON AND OLLI E . KANGAS -- chapter 8 Universalism under re-construction: from administrative coercion to professional subordination of substance misusers / OLAVI KAUKONEN -- chapter 9 After equality? Normative innovations from Lindbeck to Svegfors -- towards a dynamic conservatism? 1 / SVEN E . O . HORT -- part PART III Towards a paradigm shift? -- chapter 10 Changing normative bases of the Nordic welfare state? The case of pension provision in Norway / RUNE ERVIK -- chapter 11 Paradigm drift in the Swedish welfare state / MARCUS CARSON -- chapter 12 Normative foundations of the Icelandic welfare state: on the gradual erosion of citizenship-based welfare rights / STEFÁN ÓLAFSSON -- chapter 13 Welfare as if deliberative democracy mattered / JØRN LOFTAGER.

Summary: This is a sharp analysis of the unique Nordic welfare system with urgent lessons for governments and societies across the globe. Welfare programs and institutions tend to be analyzed as instrumental arrangements, overlooking the fact that welfare programs are essentially expressions of moral conceptions and values. This book recognises this distinction and offers analyses, perspectives and interpretations of the normative foundation of the 'Nordic welfare state model'. These authors examine the main normative principles in this model, exploring their origins and the relationship between.

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This is a sharp analysis of the unique Nordic welfare system with urgent lessons for governments and societies across the globe. Welfare programs and institutions tend to be analyzed as instrumental arrangements, overlooking the fact that welfare programs are essentially expressions of moral conceptions and values. This book recognises this distinction and offers analyses, perspectives and interpretations of the normative foundation of the 'Nordic welfare state model'. These authors examine the main normative principles in this model, exploring their origins and the relationship between.

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