Social Rights and Social Security: The Swedish Welfare State, 1900-2000

Lundberg, Urban; Åmark, Klas

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“…For the U.S. transition from the poor law system to social welfare, see Trattner (1998) or Katz (1986). 25 See Edebalk (2009), Lundberg and Åmark (2001), Rosenthal (1967) for overviews of the development of poor relief and social insurance in Sweden. at least three local appointees, one of whom should be a woman.…”

Section: Public Spending Programsmentioning

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Democracy, Redistribution, and Political Participation: Evidence From Sweden 1919-1938

Hinnerich

Pettersson‐Lidbom

2014

Econometrica

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In this paper, we compare how two different types of political regimes—direct versus representative democracy—redistribute income toward the relatively poor segments of society after the introduction of universal and equal suffrage. Swedish local governments are used as a testing ground since this setting offers a number of attractive features for a credible impact evaluation. Most importantly, we exploit the existence of a population threshold, which partly determined a local government's choice of democracy to implement a regression‐discontinuity design. The results indicate that direct democracies spend 40–60 percent less on public welfare. Our interpretation is that direct democracy may be more prone to elite capture than representative democracy since the elite's potential to exercise de facto power is likely to be greater in direct democracy after democratization.

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Section: Public Spending Programsmentioning

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Democracy, Redistribution, and Political Participation: Evidence From Sweden 1919-1938

Hinnerich

Pettersson‐Lidbom

2014

Econometrica

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“…The struggle against poverty, however, dominated the Scandinavian social policy until the 1950s, a policy which was highly gendered, with the male bread-winner model as a startingpoint for its politics. Untouched by the Second World War, Sweden was in an advantageous economic position by the 1950s (Lundberg and Å mark 2001).…”

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Prostitution as Vagrancy: Sweden 1923–1964

Svanström

2006

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“…Other macro-level studies have shown that people do not give less during economic downturns, which is further evidence that having less money to spend does not make the public less willing to give per se (Arulampalam et al, 2009). The emerging welfare state actively sought to do away with some charities in social service areas such as eldercare, childcare, disability care, and treatment of drug addiction because these and other services were considered to be social rights to be maintained by the state and that should not dependent on charity (Lundberg & Åmark, 2001;Rothstein, 1994Rothstein, , 2001Siisiainen, 1999;Vamstad, 2007;van Oorschot & Arts, 2004). The other aspect of taxation, the raised expectations on the public sector to address needs, is more difficult to dismiss.…”

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Charitable Giving in a Universal Welfare State—Charity and Social Rights in Sweden

Vamstad

Essen

2012

Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly

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The aim of this article is to explore how charitable giving is structured in a universal welfare state. The article presents new data based on more than 200 national fundraising campaigns in Sweden during the past 60 years. The varying success of these campaigns for different causes creates a historical pattern of charitable giving under a social democratic welfare regime. Which causes are still considered urgent and appropriate for donations in a country where welfare is considered to be a social right, and how have these attitudes developed over time? More specifically, the article analyses differences in the success of campaigns for domestic and for international causes, including several subcategories of campaigns. The results not only show that Swedes give considerably more money to causes not addressed by the state but also that charitable giving in Sweden is increasing for all types of causes.

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Social Rights and Social Security: The Swedish Welfare State, 1900-2000

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Democracy, Redistribution, and Political Participation: Evidence From Sweden 1919-1938

Democracy, Redistribution, and Political Participation: Evidence From Sweden 1919-1938

Prostitution as Vagrancy: Sweden 1923–1964

Charitable Giving in a Universal Welfare State—Charity and Social Rights in Sweden

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