The Social Laboratory, the Middle Way and the Swedish Model: three frames for the image of Sweden

Marklund, Carl

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“…In other words: 'The good home does not consider anyone as privileged or unappreciated; it knows no special favorites and no stepchildren … [N]o one tries to gain advantage [at] another's expense, and the stronger do not suppress and plunder the weak', explained Swedish Prime Minister Per Albin Hansson (quoted in Pratt, 2008: 127). (For more on the history of the Swedish welfare state, see Marklund, 2009;Stråth, 1993.) The Swedish welfare state would be referred to affectionately as a 'home', inspiring feelings of warmth, trust, and fidelity, and would be managed by benevolent parents.…”

Section: Folkhemmet: the People's Homementioning

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Nordic Exceptionalism revisited: Explaining the paradox of a Janus-faced penal regime

Barker

2012

Theoretical Criminology

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Nordic penal regimes are Janus-faced: one side relatively mild and benign; the other intrusive, disciplining and oppressive. This paradox has not been fully grasped or explained by the Nordic Exceptionalism thesis which overstates the degree to which Nordic penal order is based on humaneness and social solidarity, an antidote to mass incarceration. This essay examines the split in the foundation of the Swedish welfare state: it simultaneously promotes individual well-being in the social sphere but enables intrusive deprivations of liberty and in some cases, violates the principles of human rights. The backbone of the welfare state, Folkhemmet, the People's Home, is at once demos, democratic and egalitarian and ethnos, a people by blood, exclusionary and essentialist. The lack of individual rights and an ethno-cultural conception of citizenship make certain categories of people such as criminal offenders, criminal aliens, drug offenders and perceived 'others', particularly foreign nationals, vulnerable to deprivation and exclusion.

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Section: Folkhemmet: the People's Homementioning

confidence: 99%

Nordic Exceptionalism revisited: Explaining the paradox of a Janus-faced penal regime

Barker

2012

Theoretical Criminology

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“…Another method was to refrain from claiming to have all the answers. 90 In both 1937 and 1939 the message was that Sweden in its present state was by no means a finished product; the country still had room for urgent improvement. The guide book to the Paris pavilion earnestly declared, 'for our picture to be truly representative it must not only display the results achieved in the various spheres but must also show the nature of the problems we [still] have to contend with'.…”

Section: Exhibitions: a Proven Means For Influencing The Publicmentioning

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A ‘Swedish Offensive’ at the World's Fairs: Advertising, Social Reformism and the Roots of Swedish Cultural Diplomacy, 1935–1939

Glover

Hellenes

2020

Contemporary European History

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While recent scholarship has highlighted how participating countries at the interwar world's fairs competed by displaying ideological versions of modernity, the alternative national projections of smaller states have received less attention. This study of the Swedish national pavilions from Brussels 1935 via Paris 1937 to New York 1939 analyses how a loose but well-connected network of communicators over the course of three fairs responded to, and used, the evolving trends at these international mega-events. In the threatening international atmosphere of the late 1930s, the network convinced the Swedish government to seize the opportunities opened up by the crises of capitalism and democracy. The 1937 and 1939 pavilions showcased Sweden at the world's fairs as an example of the successful handling of economic and socio-political crisis, and the experience had a formative impact on the post-war institutionalisation of Swedish cultural diplomacy.

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“…И шведские "социальные инженерыˮ, включая супругов Мюрдаль, получили достаточно щедрое финансирование от рокфеллеровских фондов. Были установлены интенсивные контакты с американскими университетами, где ряд шведских экономистов работали продолжительное время [Marklund 2009]. Вторая ветвь рабочего движения, представленная Центральным объединением профсоюзов Швеции (ЦОПШ), защищала интересы промышленных рабочих, среди которых сложились исключительно сильное национальное профсоюзное объединение "синих во-ротничковˮ и сильные отраслевые профобъединения, особенно рабочих-металлистов машиностроения.…”

Section: шведское рабочее движение в центре элитного компромисса 1930-х ггunclassified

A compromise in the name of growth: increasing public confidence in the elites in Sweden (1930–1960 years)

Viktorov¹

2020

Obshchestvennye Nauki I Sovremennost

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В статье рассматриваются исторические предпосылки и базовые элементы элитного компромисса в Швеции в эпоху распространения и расцвета массового производства в этой стране в 1930-1960-е гг. Подчеркивается роль особого видения будущего, общества "народного дома", сформулированного шведскими социал-демократами в 1930-е гг. Разбираются реформы, осуществленные в последующие десятилетия, которые превратили Швецию в одну из самых богатых и экономически развитых стран мира во второй половине ХХ в. Подвергается анализу роль основных элитных групп в этом компромиссе, включая деловые круги, руководство политических партий, организации работодателей и профсоюзов, интеллектуальную элиту. Делаются выводы об уроках элитного компромисса в Швеции для современной России. В статье выдвигается тезис о том, что переход к более справедливому и богатому обществу открытого доступа не обязательно должен сопровождаться усилением социальной мобильности в этом обществе.

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The Social Laboratory, the Middle Way and the Swedish Model: three frames for the image of Sweden

Cited by 28 publications

References 8 publications

Nordic Exceptionalism revisited: Explaining the paradox of a Janus-faced penal regime

Nordic Exceptionalism revisited: Explaining the paradox of a Janus-faced penal regime

A ‘Swedish Offensive’ at the World's Fairs: Advertising, Social Reformism and the Roots of Swedish Cultural Diplomacy, 1935–1939

A compromise in the name of growth: increasing public confidence in the elites in Sweden (1930–1960 years)

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