Nordic Social Policy

Changing welfare states

Edited by Mikko Kautto, Matti Heikkilä, Biørn Hvinden Staffan Marklund and Niels Ploug

WHAT CAN BE LEARNT FROM THE NORDIC WELFARE STATES OR THE SCANDINAVIAN MODEL’?

Focusing on developments in the Nordic welfare states during the past fifteen years, NORDIC SOCIAL POLICY provides new insights into the evolution of welfare-state measures and generally assesses ’the people’s well-being’ in Sweden, Finland, Norway and Denmark.

This comparative work includes chapters from over twenty contributors which:
EXAMINE THE ALTERED PRECONDITIONS OF WELFARE POLICIES ANALYSE CHANGES IN THE WELFARE MEASURES INVESTIGATE DEVELOPMENTSIN THE WELFARE OF THE PEOPLE STAND AS INDEPENDENT TEXTS BUT ALSO, IN COMBINATION, MAKE A GENERAL STATEMENT ABOUT WELFARE-STATE CHANGE LOOK AT DEVELOPMENTS IN PUBLIC SUPPORT FOR THE WELFARE STATES

NORDIC SOCIAL POLICY will provide a new understanding of Northern European welfare and invaluable reading for students on social policy, welfare studies and sociology courses as well as for academics, policy-makers and analysts of social policy.

MIKKO KAUTTO and MATTI HEIKKILÄ, National Research and Development Centre for Welfare and Health, Finland. BJORN HVINDEN, The Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway. STAFFAN MARKLUND. University of Umeà, Sweden. NIELS PLOUG, Centre for Welfare State Research, The Danish National Institute of Social Research, Denmark.