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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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In: European Socialists and the State in the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries. - Cham : Palgrave Macmillan. - 9783030415396 - 9783030415402 ; , s. 323-343
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Book chapter (other academic/artistic)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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Folk i rörelse : vår demokratis historia
- 2021. - 1
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Book (pop. science, debate, etc.)abstract
- I år firar den svenska demokratin hundra år. Många ser detta som slutet på en given utveckling. Kjell Östberg skriver istället levande om hur vår demokrati är ett resultat av att människor sluter sig samman i kamp för att gemensamt skapa förändring, från Sundsvallsstrejken 1879 till Fridays for future idag.
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- Östberg, Kjell, 1948-
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Palme, utbildningspolitiken och maj 1968
- 2020
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In: 1968 och pedagogiken. - Huddinge : Södertörns högskola. - 9789189109179 - 9789189109186 ; , s. 37-48
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Book chapter (peer-reviewed)
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- Östberg, Kjell, 1948-
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The decline of Nordic social democracy
- 2021
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In: The Nordic Economic, Social and Political Model. - London : Routledge. - 9780367134754 - 9780429026690 ; , s. 124-137
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Book chapter (other academic/artistic)abstract
- Social democracy has generally been considered one of the most successful political forces of the 1900s. The Nordic model, building on the institutionalized, corporatist collaboration between capital, labour and state and long extolled as a successful compromise between a communist planned economy and free market capitalism, has close links to Nordic social democracy. The organizational home of Nordic social democracy has been the Social Democratic parties; working-class dominated mass parties with deep roots in trade unions and popular movements. In the mid-20th century, to follow the political thread, social democracy formulated an objective that found more mass support than any other leftist idea: to offer citizens protection against the inequalities created by an unregulated market. The broad definition of social democracy is, meanwhile, used in an attempt to single out some central features of a common reformist ideology that Social Democrats tried to translate into political action.
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- Östberg, Kjell, 1948-
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The rise and fall of Swedish social democracy
- 2024
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Book (other academic/artistic)abstract
- Historian Kjell Östberg presents the first comprehensive study of one of the most influential political movements of our time. Swedish Social Democracy was an inspiration to young socialists around the world for generations. But little remains of the Swedish model today.For almost a century, Social Democracy prevailed in Sweden, which for many appeared to be on the verge of becoming a truly socialist country. What followed instead was a jarring adaptation to a rising neoliberal world order. Large parts of the public sector have now been privatised, social inequality is rapidly worsening, and right-wing populists have come to represent much of the working class.Östberg discusses the reformist strategy, class organizations and social mobilisation, women’s struggle, and the creation of the Swedish welfare society. It is a history emblematic of the transformations in global politics of the last half century.
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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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In: European Socialists and the State in the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries. - Cham : Palgrave Macmillan. - 9783030415396 - 9783030415402 ; , s. 207-222
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Book chapter (other academic/artistic)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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