The rise and fall of the miraculous welfare machine : immigration and social democracy in twentieth-century Sweden
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The rise and fall of the miraculous welfare machine : immigration and social democracy in twentieth-century Sweden
ILR Press, an imprint of Cornell University Press, 2016
- : cloth
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  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
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Includes bibliographical references and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
Sweden is well known for the success of its welfare state. Many believe that success was made possible in part by the country's ethnic homogeneity and that the increased diversity of Sweden's population is putting its welfare state at risk. Few, however, have suggested convincing mechanisms for explaining the precise relationship between relative ethnic homogeneity/heterogeneity and the welfare state. In this book Carly Elizabeth Schall acknowledges the important role of ethnic homogeneity in Sweden's thriving welfare state, but she argues that it mattered primarily because political elites-especially social democrats-made it matter.Schall shows that diversity and the welfare state are related but that diversity does not undermine the welfare state in a straightforward way. Tracing the development of the Swedish welfare state from the late 1920s until the present day, she focuses on five historical periods of crisis. She argues that the story of Swedish national identity is a story of elite-driven hegemony-building and that the linking of social democracy and national identity colored the integration of immigrants in important ways. Social democracy could have withstood the challenge posed by immigration, but the faltering of social democratic hegemony opened a door for anti-immigrant sentiment. In her deft analysis of the relationship between immigration and the welfare state in Sweden, Schall makes a compelling argument that has relevance for immigration policy in the United States and elsewhere.
Table of Contents
Introduction PART I. HOMOGENEITY IN THE PEOPLE'S HOME
Chapter 1. 1928-1932: Ethnic Nation and Social Democratic Consolidation
Chapter 2. 1945-1950: Making the "People's Home" Interlude 1. A Swedish Welfare State, a Welfare State for Swedes PART II. HETEROGENEITY IN THE PEOPLE'S HOME
Chapter 3. 1968-1975: Security, Equality, and Choice: Expanding the People's Home
Chapter 4. 1991-1995: People's Home No Longer? The Breakdown of the Miraculous Welfare Machine Interlude 2. Is There Room for Difference in Social Democracy? Chapter 5. The End of Social Democracy Hegemony Conclusions: Who Belongs in the Swedish People's Home?
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