The Nordic Economic, Social and Political Model: Challenges in the 21st Century

ISBN-13: 9780367134754 / Angielski / Twarda / 2021 / 262 str.

Anu Koivunen; Jari Ojala; Janne Holmén

Opis

The Nordic Model is the 20^th century Scandinavian recipe for combining stable democracies, individual freedom, economic growth and comprehensive systems for social security. But what happens when Sweden and Finland start doubting themselves and their future? Is the Nordic Model at a crossroads?

Spis treści

1. Always in crisis, always a solution? The Nordic model as a political and scholarly concept  2. Three driving forces: structural challenges for Nordic democracies in the 2010s  3. Lost land of bliss: imagined temporalities of the Nordic welfare state  4. More or less equality? facts, debates, and policies related to the Nordic model  5. Liquid neutrality: paradoxes of democracy in Finnish and Swedish NATO discussions?  6. The decline of Nordic social democracy  7. Conservatives at the crossroads: cooperating or resisting extremism and populism?  8. Nordic populists as hegemony challengers  9. Cultural policy and cultural diversity  10. Managing moods: media, politicians, and anxiety over public debate  11. Persistent paradoxes, turbulent times: gender equality policies in the Nordics in the 2010s  12. Adapting the Nordic welfare state model to the challenges of automation  13. Education 4.0. Nordic long-term planning and educational policies in the fourth industrial revolution