Title: Normative foundations of the welfare state : the Nordic experience /
Authors: Kildal, Nanna.; Kuhnle, Stein.
Publisher: Routledge,
Year: 2005
Subjects: Welfare state Scandinavia.
Abstract: "This scholarly work offers analyses, perspectives and interpretations of the normative foundation of the 'Nordic welfare state model'. Welfare programmes and institutions tend to be analysed as instrumental arrangements, overlooking the fact that welfare programmes essentially are expressions of moral conceptions and values." "This book is essential reading for researchers and students of the welfare state, and also to those in the fields of social policy, comparative politics and political economy."--Jacket.
Contents: Nordic welfare model and the idea of universalism / Nanna Kildal and Stein Kuhnle -- Normative foundations of the Scandinavian welfare states in historical perspective / Bo Strath -- Origin, development, consolidation and transformation of the the Danish welfare state / Lars Bo Kaspersen -- Nordic social politics in the late twentieth century / Anders Nordlund -- Women-friendly welfare states revisited / Birte Siim and Anette Borchorst -- Universalism in the age of workfare / Jan Otto Andersson and Olli E. Kangas -- Universalism under re-construction / Olavi Kaukonen and Kerstin Stenius -- After equality? / Sven E.O. Hort -- Changing normative bases of the nordic welfare state? / Rune Ervik -- Paradigm drift in the swedish welfare state / Marcus Carson -- Normative foundations of the Icelandic welfare state / Stefan Olafsson -- Welfare as if deliberative democracy mattered / Jorn Loftager.