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1992 ◽  
Vol 21 (3) ◽  
pp. 415-417
Author(s):  
Richard Parry
Keyword(s):  
North America ◽  
Welfare State ◽  
Comparative Study ◽  
Free Market ◽  
Capitalist Society ◽  
Social Effects ◽  
The Social ◽  
Harvester Wheatsheaf ◽  
The Welfare State ◽  
Advanced Capitalist

Denmark: The Rise of Fascism and the Decline of the Nordic Model

2018 ◽  
Vol 18 (1) ◽  
pp. 133-145 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jasna Balorda
Keyword(s):  
Welfare State ◽  
Free Market ◽  
Public Support ◽  
Far Right ◽  
Social Democratic ◽  
People's Party ◽  
Social Sphere ◽  
The Social ◽  
Social Agendas ◽  
The Welfare State

Contrary to its conventional image as a social-democratic paragon, the Danish welfare state has, in recent decades, been undergoing significant changes as a response to the intrusion into the social sphere by self-regulating markets and a final departure from Keynesian politics of universalism and solidarity. This article examines the evident decline of the Nordic model as a result of neoliberal globalisation and establishes an association between the erosion of the welfare state and the emergence of fascist political sentiment in Denmark. An analysis of the Danish People's party and its growing public support among the disenfranchised working class communities in Denmark demonstrates how those overlooked by the free market and unrepresented by the liberal left become increasingly more receptive to the proposed social agendas of the far right campaigns.

Essays on the Welfare State

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Richard M. Titmuss
Keyword(s):  
Welfare State ◽  
Family Life ◽  
Social Issues ◽  
Social Effects ◽  
Ageing Population ◽  
Social Division ◽  
Taxation Policy ◽  
The Social ◽  
Selection Of ◽  
The Welfare State

The author of this book was a pioneer in the field of social administration (now social policy) and this reissued classic contains a selection of his most famous writing on social issues. It covers subjects ranging from the position of women in society, changes in family life, and the social effects of industrialisation, to the problems of an ageing population, pensions, social security and taxation policy, and the development of the national health service. This collection contains one of the author's most original contributions to the analysis of welfare policy — his reflections on ‘The social division of welfare’. The book stands the test of time as representative of his thinking, and as an inspiration to those who wrestle with the complex issues of our welfare state.

“They want us out”: Urban regeneration and the limits of integration in the Danish welfare state

2017 ◽  
Vol 37 (3) ◽  
pp. 297-316 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mette-Louise E Johansen ◽  
Steffen B Jensen
Keyword(s):  
Welfare State ◽  
Physical Space ◽  
Urban Regeneration ◽  
Social Effects ◽  
Housing Project ◽  
Self Administration ◽  
Perceived Need ◽  
The Social ◽  
Policy Work ◽  
The Welfare State

This article explores how a group of Palestinian families perceive and cope with urban regeneration in Denmark's largest public housing project, Gellerupparken. The neighborhood is publicly known as a criminal hotspot, politically defined as a migrant “ghetto”, and targeted by state policies as the other in need of change. The aim of the article is to show how urban regeneration is broader than the transformation of physical space and includes the perceived need to reform residents through a host of biopolitical interventions. While most policy work aim at establishing trusting and collaborative state-citizen relations, the perspective of the residents in Gellerupparken illuminate that the social effects of urban regeneration can be seen as paradoxical ones. Although Danish gentrification policies resonate with some sections of the residents, and can even count on the active participation of many residents in the self-administration of their neighborhood, the state's interventions only seem to strengthen its conflicts with other residents, as well as enhance the distance between resident groups. In this way, the article explores what we call the limits to integration as the practices of the families in our study run counter to embodied notions of Danishness within the welfare state.

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