Swedish Family Policy - Continuity and Change in the Nordic Welfare State Model

2011 ◽  
Vol 45 (2) ◽  
pp. 180-193 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kimberly Earles
Keyword(s):  
Welfare State ◽  
Family Policy ◽  
State Model ◽  
Continuity And Change ◽  
Swedish Family ◽  
Nordic Welfare State

Continuity and change in Swedish family policy reforms

2011 ◽  
Vol 21 (3) ◽  
pp. 225-237 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pernilla Tunberger ◽  
Wendy Sigle-Rushton
Keyword(s):  
Family Policy ◽  
Policy Reforms ◽  
Continuity And Change ◽  
Swedish Family

Why Ranting about the COVID-19 Economy as a Woman Sounds Different in Copenhagen and in Cincinnati

2021 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Aneta Spendzharova
Keyword(s):  
Welfare State ◽  
Gender Equality ◽  
Economic Effects ◽  
State Model ◽  
First Year ◽  
Career Opportunities ◽  
Economic Support ◽  
The Usa ◽  
Nordic Welfare State ◽  
The Government

Before the covid-19 pandemic, significant advances have been made in the advanced industrialized economies toward greater gender equality in the workplace, especially since the 1990s. However, the first year of the pandemic has led to dramatic backsliding in gender equality even among countries that have adopted sizeable relief packages to combat the devastating economic effects of the pandemic. This commentary argues that the pandemic has reinforced existing vulnerabilities in IPE. The essay takes stock of government economic support measures in selected OECD economies. It then compares the government responses in two representative cases with very different welfare state legacies—Denmark as a case representative of the Nordic welfare state model and the USA as a case representative of the liberal welfare state model. The main finding is that the Nordic welfare state model has been more successful in protecting vulnerable social groups, such as women, in times of severe crisis. The contrast is especially visible if we compare the performance of Denmark in terms of maintaining female labor force participation during the pandemic with that of the USA, where women as a social group have been set back decades in terms of exit from the formal labor market as well as loss of job and career opportunities.

scholarly journals Introduction: ‘Public Islam’ and the Nordic Welfare State: Changing Realities?

2014 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 4 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ulrika Mårtensson
Keyword(s):  
National Identity ◽  
Welfare State ◽  
National Identities ◽  
State Model ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
The Reformation ◽  
Nordic Welfare State ◽  
Issue Public ◽  
Institutional Order ◽  
Academic Debate

This is not a stand-alone article but the introduction to the special issue ‘Public Islam and the Nordic Welfare State: Changing Realities?’ The introduction surveys the emergence of the Nordic welfare state model with the Reformation and its development to the present day, focusing on religion, welfare and institutional order, and how national identities correspond and change with the institutional orders, as they develop. Included in this survey is the academic debate about de-secularization, actualized in the European and Nordic contexts by immigration of Muslims. It is argued that the Nordic states are moving towards an increasingly secularized institutional order and national identity, which in itself explains why Muslims are publicly perceived as a potentially problematic group.

scholarly journals Nordic Majority Churches as Agents in the Welfare State: Critical Voices and/or Complementary Providers?

2009 ◽  
Vol 45 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Anne Birgitta Pessi ◽  
Olav Helge Angell ◽  
Per Pettersson
Keyword(s):  
Welfare State ◽  
State Model ◽  
Small Contribution ◽  
Public Authorities ◽  
Welfare Provision ◽  
The Public ◽  
Nordic Welfare State ◽  
The Church ◽  
Municipal Level

The article compares the role in welfare provision of the majority churches in Finland, Norway and Sweden. The Nordic welfare state model implies a large public sector and a correspondingly small contribution to welfare provision by the voluntary sector, of which church-based welfare activities, as defined in the article, are part. The data used in the article are derived from a European project, ‘Welfare and religion in a European perspective’, concerning the role of European majority churches as agents of welfare provision. The findings show many similarities between the Nordic cases, but also some differences. In all cases it is clear that both the church and the public authorities take the Nordic welfare state model more or less for granted. The Swedish and Norwegian cases, unlike the Finnish one, show that the public authorities at the municipal level are fairly unfamiliar with local church-based welfare activities. The article raises topical questions as to the role of the Nordic churches in social policy and as moral authorities in contemporary society.Keywords: Welfare, Church, Finland, Norway, Sweden

A Social Investment Turn in East Asia?

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Timo Fleckenstein ◽  
Soohyun Christine Lee
Keyword(s):  
Welfare State ◽  
East Asia ◽  
Family Policy ◽  
Welfare States ◽  
Low Fertility ◽  
Female Employment ◽  
Industrial Workers ◽  
Social Investment ◽  
Investment Policies ◽  
Employment Participation

The welfare states of Japan, South Korea, and Taiwan were built by conservative elites to serve the project of late industrialization, and for this reason the East Asian developmental welfare state focused its resources on those who were deemed most important for economic development (especially male industrial workers). Starting in the 1990s and increasingly since the 2000s, the developmental welfare state has experienced a far-reaching transformation, including the expansion of family policy to address the post-industrial challenges of female employment participation and low fertility. This chapter assesses social investment policies in East Asia, with a focus on family policy and on the South Korean case, where the most comprehensive rise of social investment policies were observed.

The Truncated German Social Investment Turn

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Martin Seeleib-Kaiser
Keyword(s):  
Welfare State ◽  
Social Protection ◽  
Family Policy ◽  
First Century ◽  
Social Investment ◽  
Political Determinants ◽  
The Social ◽  
State Regime ◽  
Policy Transformations ◽  
Veto Points

Traditionally Germany has been categorized as the archetypical conservative welfare state, a categorization not systematically questioned in much of the comparative welfare state regime literature. For many scholars Germany was largely stuck and unable to reform its coordinated market economy and welfare state arrangements at the turn of the twenty-first century, due to a large number of veto points and players and the dominance of two ‘welfare state parties’. More recent research has highlighted a widening and deepening of the historically institutionalized social protection dualism, whilst at the same time significant family policy transformations, which can be considered as partially in line with the social investment paradigm, have been emphasized. This chapter sets out to sketch the main policy developments and aims to identify political determinants of social policy change in Germany.

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