Labour Mobilization and the Strength of Capital: The Rise and Stall of Economic Democracy in Sweden

Olsen, Gregg M.

doi:10.1080/19187033.1991.11675462

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“…Considering the unique condition of Korea where the national defense budget is large, we included the proportion of the national defense budget to the total GDP (MIL) to test the argument that the size of the budget for national defense has a negative effect on welfare spending (Kim & Seong, ). Lastly, we incorporated the theory on globalization and welfare state change (Cameron, ; Olsen, ). Therefore, OPEN, the percentage of total net value of import and export to GDP, and DINVOC, which is the percentage of direct investment to GDP, were included.…”

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Explaining Korean Welfare State Development with New Empirical Data and Methods

Ahn

Lee

2012

Asian Soc Wrk & Pol Rev

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Selecting Korea as one of the conceptually classified East Asian welfare states, this paper aims to empirically investigate the determinants of Korean welfare state development. Linking the research question with the lively discussion on welfare state in Korea that is taking place domestically, this paper also aims to examine whether the development of the Korean welfare state has been influenced by politics of the left or by industrialization with functionalistic perspectives. We conduct an analysis first by regression analysis and then fuzzy-set qualitative comparative analysis (fsQCA) to examine the conditions of such development. A Korean Welfare State Dataset (KWSD) has been newly included in the Comparative Welfare State Dataset (CWSD) and we used this new dataset for our empirical analysis. Our empirical findings suggest that, at least up to the current point, factors other than economic development or industrialization are not robust enough to make a claim of a take-off of the Korean welfare state from its developmental stage. However, we also notice the influence of the left government and suggest that it is legitimate to expect an innovative change in the path of the Korean welfare state once the power resource theory is applicable.

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Explaining Korean Welfare State Development with New Empirical Data and Methods

Ahn

Lee

2012

Asian Soc Wrk & Pol Rev

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“…By the 1980s, however, the balance of power had shifted decisively in favor of capital, and when it ended centralized, coordinated bargaining in favor of industry-level and local-level negotiations, the LO lost its strategic position. Throughout the 1980s and 1990s, many of Sweden's largest and more internationally-oriented corporations became much less amenable to many aspects of the Swedish model, including the welfare state, corporatist bodies and arrangements, and even the central Swedish Employers Federation (SAF), which it had largely outgrown (1,40,41). No longer engaged in bargaining, the SAF soon reinvented itself as the central propaganda organization for neoliberalism in Sweden.…”

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What's ‘Left’ in the ‘Garden of Sweden’?

Olsen

2013

Int J Health Serv

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Liberalization, restructuring, and retrenchment have been underway in Sweden for more than two decades and have rapidly accelerated under the current non-socialist coalition government. It is uncertain how much of the Swedish social policy model is "left" now, in terms of both what remains of it and its political character. A cross-temporal look at developments within Sweden reveals striking and continual rollbacks and marketization since the 1990s. However, this view must be qualified, both because Sweden's undisputed descent is from a comparatively lofty position and because there have been some noteworthy, but often ignored, gains even amidst marked decline over the past few decades. A cross-national examination indicates that, despite rapidly rising rates of income and wealth inequality, Sweden remains an egalitarian leader in several respects. This view must be qualified, too, because, while it continues to routinely out-perform Anglo nations such as Canada, the United Kingdom, and the United States, Sweden is less often, and less notably, distinct from several of its continental counterparts in Europe now. Moreover, the foundation of the model, labor strength, has been significantly undermined.

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“…Globalisation is another suggested factor in development of welfare programmes. One stream of studies emphasised the ‘race to the bottom’ of social policy in the effort to attract foreign investment (Hirst & Thompson, ) and welfare retrenchment associated with the weakening role of labour unions (Huber & Stephens, ; Olsen, ). These studies held that globalisation has a negative effect on welfare state expansion, including family policy.…”

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The political economy of changes in family and old‐age welfare policy spending: Analysis of OECD countries, 1998–2011

2016

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This study investigated whether in times of budget constraints and in countries with relatively large family policy spending, family policy has an advantage in the budget competition with old‐age expenditures, compared with countries with a lower level of family policy spending. We employed pooled time‐series cross‐sectional analysis of 24 OECD countries from 1998 to 2011. Our findings suggest that the initial level of family spending tends to moderate the crowding‐out effect of old‐age spending, indicating that the more mature a family spending policy is, the more it resists budget competition from old‐age policy. Furthermore, the size of government debt was found to have an insignificant effect on welfare budgeting. Our findings indicate that retrenchment in welfare spending for old age cannot be fully explained by budget constraints. Politics among interest groups associated with different welfare programmes can be an important determinant in explaining changes in spending on each welfare programme.

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Labour Mobilization and the Strength of Capital: The Rise and Stall of Economic Democracy in Sweden

Cited by 23 publications

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Explaining Korean Welfare State Development with New Empirical Data and Methods

Explaining Korean Welfare State Development with New Empirical Data and Methods

What's ‘Left’ in the ‘Garden of Sweden’?

The political economy of changes in family and old‐age welfare policy spending: Analysis of OECD countries, 1998–2011

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