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The Relational Nordic Welfare State: Between Utopia and Ideology

✍ Scribed by Sakari Hänninen (editor), Kirsi-Marja Lehtelä (editor), Paula Saikkonen (editor)

Publisher
Edward Elgar Publishing
Year
2019
Tongue
English
Leaves
277
Category
Library
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✦ Synopsis

The success of the Nordic welfare state is well known, but the key drivers of its remarkable expansion are not. This book explores the relationships between citizens that constitute the normative groundwork of Nordic societies, arguing that the quality of relations steers welfare development.

Chapters explore relations of reciprocity, trust and equality that characterize the relational Nordic welfare state. Through an interdisciplinary approach, expert contributors consider the establishment and growth of welfare institutions in Nordic countries and evaluate the neoliberal challenge that these institutions have faced since the 1980s. This book reveals how and why Nordic societies may find a path of balanced and sustainable development.

Timely and insightful, this book will be indispensable for scholars and students of social and political sciences, as well as jurisprudence, especially those interested in welfare states.

Contributors include: M. Berg, S. Blomgren, P. Borioni, S. Hänninen, M. Jokela, P. Kettunen, M. Kivipelto, T. Kotkas, P.H. Kristensen, K.-M. Lehtelä, K. Lilja, E. Moen, M. Perlinski, P. Saikkonen, S.F. Schram, K. Tuori, N. Witoszek

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter
Copyright
Contents
Contributors
Preface
Introduction: the Nordic welfare state as a state of civilisation
PART I Autonomy
1. Neoliberal relations of poverty and the welfare state
2. The Nordic welfare state and the challenge of difference
3. The profits and pitfalls of prosociality: cultural-evolutionary perspectives on Scandinavia
PART II Participation
4. The Nordic model in ordo-liberal Europe: from welfare parity to social hierarchy?
5. The rise and fall of the Nordic utopia of an egalitarian wage work society
PART III Inclusion
6. Nordic welfare states, trust and the rights discourse: the history of the children’s day care system in Finland
7. A social constitution of Europe?
PART IV Sustainability
8. The eco-social Nordic welfare state – a distant dream or a possible future?
9. Social sustainability and the organization of social work from the perspective of Finnish adult social work practitioners
10. Civilizing business enterprises: the search for a new Nordic growth and development model
Epilogue: the Nordic welfare state beyond ideology and utopia
Index

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