scholarly journals Adapting the Nordic welfare state model to the challenges of automation

2021 ◽  
pp. 227-241
Author(s):  
Heikki Hiilamo
Keyword(s):  
Welfare State ◽  
State Model ◽  
Nordic Welfare State

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

scholarly journals Welfare State Policy Model as A Poverty Reduction Strategy in the West Sumatra Districts and Cities

2019 ◽  
Vol 21 (2) ◽  
pp. 227
Author(s):  
Azwar Azwar Azwar ◽  
Emeraldy Chatra ◽  
Zuldesni Zuldesni
Keyword(s):  
Social Policy ◽  
Welfare State ◽  
State Model ◽  
The West ◽  
Policy Model ◽  
The Poor ◽  
The Social ◽  
West Sumatra ◽  
The Government ◽  
The Welfare State

Poverty is one of the social problems that the government can never completely solve. As a result, other, more significant social issues arise and cause social vulnerability, such as conflict and crime. As a province that is experiencing rapid growth in the last ten years, the West Sumatra find difficulty to overcome the number of poor people in several districts and cities.  The research outcomes are the models and forms of social policy made by West Sumatra regencies and cities governments in improving the welfare of poor communities. It is also covering the constraints or obstacles to the implementation of social policy and the selection of welfare state models for the poor in some districts and municipalities of West Sumatra. This research is conducted qualitatively with a sociological approach that uses social perspective on searching and explaining social facts that happened to needy groups. Based on research conducted that the social policy model adopted by the government in responding to social problems in the districts and cities of West Sumatra reflects the welfare state model given to the poor. There is a strong relationship between the welfare state model and the form of social policy made by the government.

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