A new Swedish model?: Swedish social democracy at the crossroads

Sweden has for a long time been viewed as a paradigmatic case for progressive politics. Swedish social democracy, to which the progressive character of such politics was attributed, could legitimately claim to have mastered the historic task of the revisionist Left: building a societal coalition aro...

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1. Verfasser:	Tsarouhas, Dimitris
Format:	Buchkapitel
Sprache:	eng
Schlagworte:	Applied philosophy Behavioral sciences Business Business administration Economic disciplines Economic policy Economics Employee compensation Employment Entitlement programs Human resources Human societies Labor Labor economics Labor markets Labor movements Labor unionization Labor unions Organized labor Philosophy Political organizations Political parties Political science Public expenditures Public finance Scope of employment Social democracy Social democratic parties Social movements Social philosophy Sociology Unemployment Unemployment insurance Wages Workforce
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Zusammenfassung:	Sweden has for a long time been viewed as a paradigmatic case for progressive politics. Swedish social democracy, to which the progressive character of such politics was attributed, could legitimately claim to have mastered the historic task of the revisionist Left: building a societal coalition around the goal of enhancing social welfare for all, while safeguarding the profitability of business and delivering economic growth. When economic crisis hit home in the early 1990s, accompanied by the loss of power to a resurgent centre-right, the Social Democratic Party (SAP) was left vulnerable to accusations of a neo-liberal transformation (Ryner 2002) and
DOI:	10.7765/9781526125095.00013