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Normative Foundations of the Welfare State

The Nordic Experience

By: Nanna Kildal,Stein Kuhnle

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Normative Foundations of the Welfare State

The Nordic Experience

By: Nanna Kildal,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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1134272820

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The Korean State and Social Policy

How South Korea Lifted Itself from Poverty and Dictatorship to Affluence and Democracy

By: Stein Ringen

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The Korean State and Social Policy

How South Korea Lifted Itself from Poverty and Dictatorship to Affluence and Democracy

By: Stein Ringen

Introduction: the birth of the state -- The state meets modernity -- The state meets business -- The state meets voluntarism -- The state meets democracy -- Conclusion: the anatomy of the state.

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Oxford University Press

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0199734356

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9780199734351

Citizens, Elections, Parties

Approaches to the Comparative Study of the Processes of Development

By: Stein Rokkan

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Citizens, Elections, Parties

Approaches to the Comparative Study of the Processes of Development

By: Stein Rokkan

Stein Rokkan became one of the central figures of European comparative politics and political sociology in the post-war decades. Citizens, Elections, Parties remains the most complete guide to Rokkan's work up to 1970, and it is for this that Rokkan is most widely known today. The core question at the heart of this seminal work is what explains the political behaviour of citizens. The book brings together a series of studies, some conceptual and theoretical, others empirical and statistical, of processes of political development in industrialising and industrialised societies. The fourteen studies presented in the volume focus on three central themes in the comparative sociology of national development: first, the extension of citizenship to hitherto underprivileged strata of each territorial population; second, the mobilisation of the new masses through the institutionalisation of elections and the formation of parties and popular movements; and third, the reactions of the mobilised masses to the alternatives presented to them by the inherited national regime, by the parties, and by the new media of communication. Rokkan's work, as represented in Citizens, Elections, Parties, remains alive today; his analysis of the structural underpinnings of citizen behaviour was innovative and highly ambitious in its day and still remains relevant, with many of the questions he raised still not receiving an adequate answer. This edition includes a new introduction by Alan Renwick.

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ECPR Press

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0955248884

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9780955248887

State Formation, Nation-building, and Mass Politics in Europe

The Theory of Stein Rokkan : Based on His Collected Works

By: Stein Rokkan

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State Formation, Nation-building, and Mass Politics in Europe

The Theory of Stein Rokkan : Based on His Collected Works

By: Stein Rokkan

Stein Rokkan was one of the leading social scientists of the post-war world. He was a prolific writer, yet nowhere is his contribution to social science - the conceptual and developmental map of Europe - presented in an integrated and systematic way. Stein Rokkan had plans to do this butdied before the work could be started. Drawing on Rokkan's published, unpublished, and translated writings, this book systematizes and integrates Rokkan's numerous writings in the way he wanted to do himself.

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Clarendon Press

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0198280327

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Welfare Trends in the Scandinavian Countries

By: Robert Erikson,Erik Jorgen Hansen,Stein Ringen,Hannu Uusitalo

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Welfare Trends in the Scandinavian Countries

By: Robert Erikson,Erik Jorgen Hansen,Stein Ringen,Hannu Uusitalo

Discusses important aspects of the development of the welfare state in the Scandinavian countries and Iceland since the mid-1970s. It focuses on societal changes during a period of modest economic growth. Topics include labour market benefits, education and social mobility, class and inequality, income distribution and trajectories and health.

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Routledge

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1315488280

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The Possibility of Politics

A Study in the Political Economy of the Welfare State

By: Stein Ringen

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The Possibility of Politics

A Study in the Political Economy of the Welfare State

By: Stein Ringen

The Possibility of Politics explores the power of political reform, specifically reform of the modern welfare state. Can reform be effective if limited to cautious and piecemeal interventions that avoid radicalism and revolution? Can it also avoid unwanted consequences? Will the welfare state survive in the future? Stein Ringen views the welfare state as a large-scale experiment in political reform. To ask if the welfare state works is to ask if political reform is possible at all. By its nature, the welfare state is reform on a grand scale, for it attempts to change the circumstances individuals and families live under without changing and disrupting society itself. But is it realistic to believe a population can get together, set goals and then try to meet these goals through collective actions, specifically public policies, without causing unintended consequences and destroying the state in the process? The welfare state attempts, idealistically, to redistribute welfare without reshaping the economic processes that cause inequities in the first place. Ringen considers how well redistribution has met the test in terms of political legitimacy, its intended effects on poverty and inequality, as well as its undesired and unintended effects on economic efficiency and the quality of private life. Ultimately, does the welfare state work? Further, is the welfare state a good thing? In considering these questions, The Possibility of Politics should be of particular value to academics and advanced students interested in political theory, public economics, social administration, and political sociology. Stein Ringen is professor of sociology and social policy at Oxford University and a Fellow of Green College. He teaches social and political theory and research methodology for graduates in social policy, sociology, politics, economic and social history and other subjects.

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Transaction Publishers

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141283161X

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9781412831611

Nation of Devils

Democratic Leadership and the Problem of Obedience

By: Stein Ringen

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Nation of Devils

Democratic Leadership and the Problem of Obedience

By: Stein Ringen

How does a government get the people to accept its authority? Every government must make unpopular demands on its citizens; the challenge is that power is not enough, the populace must also be willing to be led.

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Yale University Press

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0300199015

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9780300199017

The Story of Scandinavia

From the Vikings to Social Democracy

By: Stein Ringen

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The Story of Scandinavia

From the Vikings to Social Democracy

By: Stein Ringen

In The Story of Scandinavia, political scholar Stein Ringen chronicles more than 1,200 years of drama, economic rise and fall, crises, kings and queens, war, peace, language and culture. Scandinavian history has been one of dramatic discontinuities of collapse and restarts, from the Viking Age to the Age of Perpetual War to the modern age today. For a thousand years, the Scandinavian countries were kingdoms of repression where monarchs played at the game of being European powers, at the expense of their own populations. The brand we now know as "Scandinavia" is a recent invention. During most of its history, Denmark and Sweden, and to some degree Norway, were bloody enemies. These sentiments of enmity have not been fully settled. Under the surface of collaboration remain undercurrents of hatred, envy, contempt and pity. What does it mean today to be Scandinavian? For the author, whose identity is Scandinavian but his life European, this masterly history is a personal exploration as well as a narrative of compelling scope.

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Weidenfeld & Nicolson

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1474625223

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State Formation, Nation-building, and Mass Politics in Europe

The Theory of Stein Rokkan : Based on His Collected Works

By: Stein Rokkan

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By: Stein Rokkan

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State Formation, Nation-building, and Mass Politics in Europe

The Theory of Stein Rokkan

By: Stein Rokkan,Peter Flora

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State Formation, Nation-building, and Mass Politics in Europe

The Theory of Stein Rokkan

By: Stein Rokkan,Peter Flora

Stein Rokkan was one of the leading social scientist of the post-war world. He was a prolific writer, yet nowhere is his contribution to social science--the conceptual and developmental map of Europe--presented in an integrated and systematic way. Drawing on Rokkan's published, unpublished and translated writings, this book systematizes and integrates Rokkan's numerous writings in the way he himself planned to do.

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Normative Foundations of the Welfare State

The Nordic Experience

By: Nanna Kildal,Stein Kuhnle

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The Nordic Experience

By: Nanna Kildal,Stein Kuhnle

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Normative Foundations of the Welfare State

Normative Foundations of the Welfare State

The Korean State and Social Policy

The Korean State and Social Policy

Citizens, Elections, Parties

Citizens, Elections, Parties

State Formation, Nation-building, and Mass Politics in Europe

State Formation, Nation-building, and Mass Politics in Europe

Welfare Trends in the Scandinavian Countries

Welfare Trends in the Scandinavian Countries

The Possibility of Politics

The Possibility of Politics

Nation of Devils

Nation of Devils

The Story of Scandinavia

The Story of Scandinavia

State Formation, Nation-building, and Mass Politics in Europe

State Formation, Nation-building, and Mass Politics in Europe

State Formation, Nation-building, and Mass Politics in Europe

State Formation, Nation-building, and Mass Politics in Europe

Normative Foundations of the Welfare State

Normative Foundations of the Welfare State

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