Democratic State and Democratic Society Institutional Change in the Nordic Model.
This book focuses on institutional change in Nordic societies. Among the Nordics, the main emphasis is on Norway, in many ways the best example of neo-corporatism. The main emphasise is put on the interplay of democracy and social institutions.
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Berlin/Boston
De Gruyter
2019.
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- 1 Introduction: Democracy, Institutional Compatibility and Change
- 2 Social Institutions and the Quality of Democracy
- 3 A Democratic Way of Life: Institutionalizing Individual Freedom in Norway
- 4 Welfare State Discourse and Citizenship Politics: From 'Silent' Policy to Steering Logic
- 5 Redistributing Knowledge? How Institutions Affect Citizens' Political Knowledge Levels: The Scandinavian Case Compared
- 6 Old and New Social Movements in the Nordic Countries: History and Future in an International Perspective
- 7 Committee Governance in Consensus Cultures: An Exploration of Best Practice Cases in Germany and Norway
- 8 Translation and Institutional Change: What Happened when Participatory Budgeting Came to the Nordic Countries?
- 9 Can Descriptive Representation be Justified outside Politics?
- 10 The Battle over a Fair Share: The Creation of Labour Market Institutions in Norway
- 11 Workplace Democracy: Representation and Participation Gaps in the Norwegian Labour Market Model
- 12 Bowling Alone and Working Together? Social Capital at Work
- 13 Stability and Change in Scandinavian Welfare: The Nonprofit Sector as a Buffer against For-Profit Expansion
- 14 No Factory for Dreams: Street-Level Bureaucrats between Activation Targets and User Orientation
- 15 The Demand for Work-Family Policies in Advanced Capitalist Democracies
- 16 Business Elite Confidence in Political Institutions: The Case of Norway
- 17 Elite Compromise as a Mode of Institutional Change: The United States and Norway Compared
- 18 Afterword: Institutional Differentiation and Change
- About the Authors