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- Andersson, Jenny, et al.
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The Swedish Social Democrats, Reform Socialism and the state after the Golden Era
- 2020
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Ingår i: European Socialists and the State in the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries. - Cham : Palgrave Macmillan. - 9783030415396 - 9783030415402 ; , s. 323-343
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Bokkapitel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- The Swedish Social Democratic welfare state system that peaked during the 1970s was based on a common belief in the existence of strong and potent state with strong tendencies toward a de-commodification. However, with the Palme government in 1982, Social democrats accepted the idea that the welfare state should be reoriented around a prevailing notion of individualization, and be a vehicle in particular for a middle-class strategy of social mobility tightly entangled with consumer preference. In subsequent decades, a complex and multi-motivational process of privatization was carried out as a de facto alliance between Left and Right. In the 2000s, the Party has abandoned control of the welfare state as part of its reformist strategy or “power resource”.
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- Östberg, Kjell, 1948-
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The Swedish Social Democracy : Civil Servants, Social Engineers and Welfare Bureaucrats
- 2020
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Ingår i: European Socialists and the State in the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries. - Cham : Palgrave Macmillan. - 9783030415396 - 9783030415402 ; , s. 207-222
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Bokkapitel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Östberg’s article is discussing the development of a social democratic welfare bureaucracy in Sweden during the twentieth century, for a long time a success story. At an early stage the social democrats’ ability to assume control over the state administration depended on the possibility to find intellectuals sympathetic to the social democratic cause. For the greatly expanding welfare state of the 1960s, a broadening spectrum of well-educated men and women, all clearly sympathetic to the social democratic project of building a welfare state, was available. The party’s long, uninterrupted period of government made it easier for the social democrats to put their stamp on the state bureaucracy. As the social democrats’ reformist ambitions have dwindled, so has the need of a special welfare bureaucracy.
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