Preface 1. Introduction PART I: ORIGINS 2. The Birth of the Social Democratic Movement (1848-1916) 3. Towards a Nordic Model (1916-1940) 4. Planning the Welfare State (1940-1970) PART II: SOCIAL DEMOCRACY AND THE NORDIC MODEL 5. The Nordic Model in a Global Economy 6. The Welfare State: The Good Life or Dependency? 7. A Better and More Organized World PART III: IS THE NORDIC MODEL SUSTAINABLE? 8. Economic Growth and Environmental Protection 9. The Sustainability of the Welfare State 10. Liberty, Empowerment, and Community PART IV: CONCLUSION 11. Concluding Essay: The Power of Politics Notes Literature Index
NIKOLAI BRANDAL is a PhD fellow at the Department of Archaeology,
Conservation and History, University of Oslo, Norway. His doctoral
research concerns political extremism in the 1960s and 70s.
Alongside a scholarly interest in totalitarian movements, Brandal
has published articles and book chapters on the Second World War
and post-war Norwegian politics.
ØIVIND BRATBERG is a Post-doctoral Researcher at the Department of
Political Science, University of Oslo, Norway. His research
interests range from British party politics and territorial reform
via contemporary social democracy to the analysis of political
ideas and discourse.
DAG EINAR THORSEN received his PhD in Political Science from the
University of Oslo, Norway in 2012, concluding a research project
on the political philosophy of Karl Popper and Isaiah Berlin. He
has published a number of articles and book chapters on political
theory, ideology and the philosophy of science.
“This concise volume traces the development of the social democratic of the social democratic movement and parties in Denmark, Norway, and Sweden from their mid-nineteenth-century origins to the present. … This is a well-written monograph that would enrich courses on modern Scandinavia or even European politics.” (Eric S. Einhorn, Scandinavian Studies, Vol. 89 (1), 2017)
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