Klaus Petersen

Åsa Lundqvist

Based on an analysis of the historical facts of the welfare states in Denmark, Finland, Norway and Sweden in the 20th Century, this book offers an analysis of the interplay between science, experts, politicians and institutions in policy areas such as public health, unemployment insurance, child psychiatry, alcohol research and social insurance.

Knowledge, Politics and Bureaucracy in Nordic Welfare States

In Experts We Trust

Lars Mjøset

Haldor Byrkjeflot

Mads Mordhorst

This critical and empirically based volume examines the multiple existing Nordic models, providing analytically innovative attention to the multitude of circulating ideas, images and experiences referred to as "Nordic". It addresses related paradoxes as well as patterns of circulation, claims about the exceptionality of Nordic models, and the diffusion and impact of Nordic experiences and ideas. Providing original case studies, the book further examines how the Nordic models have been constructed, transformed and circulated in time and in space. It investigates the actors and channels that have been involved in circulating models: journalists and media, bureaucrats and policy-makers, international organizations, national politicians and institutions, scholars, public diplomats and analyses where and why models have travelled. Finally, the book shows that Nordic models, perspectives, or ideas do not always originate in the Nordic region, nor do they always develop as deliberate efforts to promote Nordic interests. This book will be of key interest to Nordic and Scandinavian studies, European studies, and more broadly to history, sociology, political science, marketing, social policy, organizational theory and public management. The Open Access version of this book, available at http://www.taylorfrancis.com, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license.

The Making and Circulation of Nordic Models, Ideas and Images

Allan C. Hutchinson

Socially organized activity cannot occur without censorship. Going beyond ideological arguments, this collections of essays explores the extent of censorship in Canada today, the forms censorship takes, and the interests it serves.

Interpreting Censorship in Canada

Pauli Kettunen

Welfare state models have for decades been the gold standard of welfare state research. Beyond Welfare State Models escapes the straitjacket of conventional welfare state models and challenges the existing literature in two ways. Firstly the contributors argue that the standard typologies have omitted important aspects of welfare state development. Secondly, the work develops and underlines the importance of a more fluid transnational conceptualisation. As this book shows, welfare states are not created in national isolation but are heavily influenced by transnational economic, political and cultural interdependencies. the authors illustrate these important points of criticism with their studies on the transnational history of social policy, religion and the welfare state, Nordic cooperation within the fields of social policy and marriage law, and the transnational contexts of national family policies.

Transnational Historical Perspectives on Social Policy

Beyond Welfare State Models

Adele Chynoweth

Bernadette Lynch

Sarah Smed

Museums and Social Change explores the ways museums can work in collaboration with marginalised groups to work for social change and, in so doing, rethink the museum. Drawing on the first-hand experiences of museum practitioners and their partners around the world, the volume demonstrates the impact of a shared commitment to collaborative, reflective practice. Including analytical discussion from practitioners in their collegial work with women, the homeless, survivors of institutionalised child abuse and people with disabilities, the book draws attention to the significant contributions of small, specialist museums in bringing about social change. It is here, the book argues, that the new museum emerges: when museum practitioners see themselves as partners, working with others to lead social change, this is where museums can play a distinct and important role. Emerging in response to ongoing calls for museums to be more inclusive and participate in meaningful engagement, Museums and Social Change will be essential reading for academics and students working in museum and gallery studies, librarianship, archives, heritage studies and arts management. It will also be of great interest to those working in history and cultural studies, as well as museum practitioners and social activists around the world.

Challenging the Unhelpful Museum

Museums and Social Change

Sonya Michel

In this interdisciplinary volume, leading and emerging scholars examine the relationship between homogeneity and welfare state development. They trace Gunnar MyrdalÕs influence on thinking about race in the US and explore current European statesÕ appro

An American Dilemma?

Race, Ethnicity and Welfare States

Per H. Hansen

En præsentation af danske designmøbler og kunsthåndværk skabt af de arkitekter og designere, som har møbleret danske hjem i generationer. Der er både verdenskendte klassikere og mindre kendte designperler. Bogens afsnit omhandler forskellige møbeltyper: Spisebordsstole og spiseborde, sofaer og sofaborde, lænestole og armstole, kunsthåndværk etc. Derfor er den velegnet at medbringe, når man besøger loppemarkeder, auktioner etc. For hvert møbel angives arkitekt/designer, producent, prisleje, evt. mærkning og supplerende oplysninger om fx lignede møbler fra samme designer. Bogen har også biografier om de store designere og gode råd om at købe i klassikerbutikker, på nettet og på auktioner.

300 danske designmøbler

Niels Finn Christiansen

Jørn Henrik Petersen

Hvor kom velfærdsstaten fra? Hvorfor ser den ud, som den gør? Det er vigtige spørgsmål for dem, der vil have en dybere forståelse af den danske velfærdsmodel. I Frem mod socialhjælpsstaten fortælles historien om den første moderne socialpolitiske lovgivning i Danmark, som så dagens lys i 1890'erne. Først trækkes de lange linjer tilbage til den før-velfærdsstatslige regulering af tiggere, hjemløse, forældreløse m.v., der havde en rudimentær og tilfældig karakter. I den sidste halvdel af 1800-tallet begyndte imidlertid - i kølvandet på industrialisering, urbanisering og modernisering - en international diskussion om "det sociale spørgsmål". Diskussionen blev forstærket af den demokratisering, der gradvis satte sig igennem i en række lande. Det førte til en begyndende udskillelse af forskellige befolkningsgrupper fra fattiglovtidens enhedsforsørgelse. Alderdomsforsørgelsen så dagens lys i 1891 fulgt af en revideret fattiglov. De fulgtes i 1892 af loven om sygekasser, der sikrede de syge. I 1898 fik vi den første udgave af en ulykkesforsikringslov. Baggrunden for disse love, de politiske processer og debatter, lovenes konkrete udformning og idemæssige baggrund analyseres detaljeret. Det er historien om et politisk system og sociale eksperter, som skal træffe beslutninger på et nyt område. Det rejser dybt principielle spørgsmål om forsikring kontra forsørgelse, om værdighedsbetingelser, om skøn over for ret, om hvem der skal betale, og hvem der skal have - grundlæggende ideologiske spørgsmål som både dengang og i dag er centrale for både kritikere og forsvarere af velfærdsstaten. Frem mod socialhjælpsstaten er det første af i alt seks bind i værket Dansk Velfærdshistorie. De følgende fem bind bærer titlerne Mellem skøn og ret (1900-1933), Velfærdsstaten i støbeskeen (1933-1956), Velfærdsstatens storhedstid (1956-1973), Velfærdsstat i tidehverv (1973-1993) og Hvor glider vi hen? (1993-2010).

Velfærdsstaten i tidehverv : perioden 1973-1993

Dansk velfærdshistorie

Welfare state models have for decades been the gold standard of welfare state research. Beyond Welfare State Models escapes the straightjacket of conventional welfare state models and challenges the existing literature in two ways. Firstly the contributors argue that the standard typologies have omitted important aspects of welfare state development. Secondly, the work develops and underlines the importance of a more fluid transnational conceptualisation. As this book shows, welfare states are not created in national isolation but are heavily influenced by transnational economic, political and cultural interdependencies. The authors illustrate these important points of criticism with their studies on the transnational history of social policy, religion and the welfare state, Nordic cooperation within the fields of social policy and marriage law, and the transnational contexts of national family policies. This fascinating work contributes to the understanding of the current changes of welfare states by discussing the relationship between globalized capitalism and social political regulations and by arguing that transnational transformations importantly take place within and between nation states.

Klaus Petersen

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