Normative foundations of the welfare state : the Nordic experience

edited by Nanna Kildal and Stein Kuhnle

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 them. Paying particular attention to the principles of 'universalism', 'public responsibility for welfare', and 'work for all', they consider their significance for current welfare policy and question whether external economic and ideological pressures are threatening these principles. The book is divided into three clear parts: -Part I considers the historical trajectories behind the Nordic welfare model -Part II looks more specifically on normative tensions and dilemmas in current welfare policies with a focus on women friendly welfare, attitudes to basic income and alcohol and drug misuse -Part III focuses on the possible change in the normative foundation of the Nordic welfare states This book will be essential reading for researchers and students of the welfare state and also to those in the fields of social policy, comparative politics and political economy.

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[目次]

  • Part One: Normative Foundations: Historical Perspectives
  • 1. - Nanna Kildal" and - Stein Kuhnle" - The Principle of Universalism: Tracing a Key Idea in the Scandinavian Welfare Model
  • 2. - Bo Strath" - The Normative Foundations of the Scandinavian Welfare States in Historical Perspective
  • 3. - Lars Bo Kaspersen" - The Origin, Development, Consolidation and Transformation of the Danish Welfare State
  • 4. - Anders Nordlund" - Nordic Social Politics in the Late 20th Century - an Analysis of the Political Reform Agenda
  • Part Two: Normative Tensions
  • 5. - Birte Siim" and - Anette Borchorst"
  • The Women-friendly Welfare State Revisited
  • 6. - Jan Otto Andersson" and - Olli Kangas" - Universalism in the Age of Workfare: Attitudes to Basic Income in Sweden and Finland
  • 7. - Olavi Kaukonen" and - Kerstin Stenius" - Comprehensiveness under Threat? From Administrative Coercion to Professional Subordination of Substance Misusers
  • 8. - Sven E. O. Hort" - Three Normative Worlds in Three Welfare Projects during the 1990s - Decennium Horribilis?
  • Part Three: Towards a Paradigm Shift?
  • 9. - Rune Ervik" - Changing Normative Bases of the Nordic Welfare States? The Case of Pension Provision in Norway
  • 10. - Marcus Carson" - Paradigm Shift to System Shift in the Swedish Welfare State
  • 11. - Stefan Olafsson" - Welfare Regime Shift in Iceland?
  • 12. - JA rn Loftager" - Which Democracy - Whose Welfare?

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書名 Normative foundations of the welfare state : the Nordic experience
著作者等 Kildal, Nanna
Kuhnle, Stein
シリーズ名 Routledge/EUI studies in the political economy of welfare
出版元 Routledge
刊行年月 2005
ページ数 x, 262 p.
大きさ 25 cm
ISBN 0415349435
9780415429764
NCID BA71696827
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言語 英語
出版国 イギリス
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