Globalization, Europeanization and the End of Scandinavian Social Democracy?

by Edited by Robert Geyer, Christine Ingebritsen and Jonathan W. Moses

• ISBN13: 9780312224202
• ISBN10: 0312224206
• Format: Trade Book
• Copyright: 2000-02-05
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Summary

A key debate in the 1980s and 1990s revolves around the growing power of globalization and, in the European context, Europeanization. Denmark, Norway and Sweden lie at the heart of the debate over whether the end of the nation-state has arrived or if national distinctions remain paramount. This volume answers the question of whether or not we are witnessing the end of the social democratic era by exploring the development of Scandinavian economic policy and welfare state/social policy.

Author Biography

Robert Geyer is in the Department of Politics at the University of Liverpool. Christine Ingebritsen is in the Department of Scandinavian Studies at the University of Washington.

Jonathan W. Moses is in the Department of Sociology and Political Science at the University of Trondheim, Norway.

Table of Contents

List of Tables and Figures	ix
Acknowledgements	xi
Notes on the Contributors	xii
Introduction	1	(22)
Jonathon W. Moses
Robert Geyer
Christine Ingebritsen
Part I Economic Policy
Europeanization and the Crisis of Scandinavian Social Democracy	23	(22)
Ton Notermans
Bad Timing: Recommodification, Credit Reform and Crises of Coordination in Norway and Sweden in the 1980s and 1990s	45	(17)
Bent Sofus Tranoy
Floating Fortunes: Scandinavian Full Employment in the Tumultuous 1970s-1980s	62	(23)
Jonathon W. Moses
Part II Welfare State and Social Policy
Social Democratic Welfare States in a Global Economy: Scandinavia in Comparative Perspective	85	(54)
Duane Swank
Equality and Swedish Social Democracy: The Impact of Globalization and Europeanization	139	(27)
Katie Verlin Laatikainen
Europeanization and the Scandinavian Model: Securing Borders and Defending Monopolies	166	(13)
Christine Ingebritsen
Part III Social Democracy and the European Union
Just Say No! Norwegian Social Democrats and the European Union	179	(19)
Robert Geyer
The Impact of Globalization and European Integration on the Danish Social Democratic Party	198	(20)
Jens Henrik Haahr
Making Peace with the Union? The Swedish Social Democratic Party and European Integration	218	(22)
Lee Miles
References	240	(15)
Index	255