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Author(s): Arthur Gould (auth.)
ISBN(s): 9781349416363, 1349416363
Edition: 1
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Year: 2001
Language: english
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ISBN 10: 1349416363
ISBN 13: 9781349416363
Author: Arthur Gould

For many decades, Sweden was seen as a model welfare state. Only with the onset of economic problems in the 1990s have successive governments felt compelled to curb social spending and abandon the goal of full employment. This book is about the changes introduced and the political, institutional and cultural resistance they encountered. Detailed accounts of changes to welfare services and benefits are included alongside specialist chapters devoted to areas where Sweden itself has claimed to be something of a leader – the care of the elderly, gender equality, employment issues and substance.

Developments in Swedish Social Policy Resisting Dionysus 1st Table of contents:

1 Postmodern World …
Introduction
Postmodernity and welfare
The approach adopted in this study
Conclusion
2 … Modern Society
Introduction
Sweden: the “prototype” of a modern society
Functionalism, the Stockholm Exhibition and national identity
Social democracy, discipline and social engineering
Compulsory sterilisation
National superiority
Conclusion
3 The “People’s Home”
Introduction
The People’s Home
Towards socialism
Consolidation
Gathering clouds
Compromise and consensus
Conclusions
4 Political and Economic Change
Introduction
The Bourgeois government 1991–94
The Social Democratic government 1994–98
Demographic changes
Commentaries
Summary and conclusions
5 Social Insecurity: Benefits and Services
Introduction
Social insurance
Social services
Social assistance
Health care
Inequalities
Conclusions
6 Grey Policies: Caring for the Elderly
Introduction
Health and social services
Old age pensions
Social assistance and pensioner poverty
Elderly immigrants
Grey politics
Conclusion
7 The State of Women
Introduction
Women and the welfare state
Women and the public sector
Women, politics and power
Women and the EU
Gender inequality in the 1990s
Violence against women
Prostitution
Discussion
Conclusion
8 Responses to Unemployment
Introduction
Unemployment and employment
Employment policy
Conclusion
9 The Restrictive Line: Alcohol and Drugs
Introduction
Alcohol policy
Drug policy
Trends and indicators
A culture of sobriety
Conclusion
10 Apollo versus Dionysus
Introduction
The Swedish welfare state
Political resistance
Institutional resistance
Cultural resistance
The Apollonian society
Apollonian excess – irrational rationality

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