The Danish Welfare State

Author : Morten Frederiksen
Publisher : Springer
Page : 269 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2016-04-29
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781137527318

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The Danish Welfare State analyzes a broad range of areas, such as globalization, labor marked, family life, health and social exclusion, the book demonstrates that life in a modern welfare state is changing rapidly, creating both challenges and possibilities for future management.

Author : Erik Albaek,Leslie C Eliason,Leslie C. Eliason,Herman M Schwartz,Herman M. Schwartz,Asbjorn Sonne Norgaard
Publisher : Aarhus Universitetsforlag
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2008-10-03
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9788779346772

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Crisis, Miracles, and Beyond by Erik Albaek,Leslie C Eliason,Leslie C. Eliason,Herman M Schwartz,Herman M. Schwartz,Asbjorn Sonne Norgaard Pdf

How did Denmark avoid a macro-economic catastrophe in the 1980s and 1990s and still manage not only to maintain but also expand its welfare state? Denmark's macro-economic troubles apparently derived from a number of vices identified by critics of the welfare state: it had an enormous, thoroughly unionized, and unresponsive public sector; large numbers of people relied on the state for their livelihood, making programmatic cuts politically difficult; many programs had the characteristic of property rights and were hard to modify. Taxes to sustain this welfare state compressed investment, eroding both fiscal and current account balances. Yet by the mid 1990s, public support for the welfare state was as high as ever, while fiscal and current accounts were essentially in balance. The analyses in this book suggest that most of the vices that traditional welfare state scholarship identifies are also virtues. This book presents a comprehensive picture of how the Danish welfare state and political economy works by looking at the governance of and interactions between the welfare state and economy at all levels, using analyses of general macro-economic policy, center-local relations, budgeting, labour market, and welfare state transfers and services in three critical areas. A critical introductory survey of the welfare state literature and a synthetic conclusion frame these studies. This fine-grained analysis shows how alleged weaknesses were actually strengths that allowed a negotiated adaptation of the Danish model to external and internal changes. This sheds light on the future of the welfare state and economic governance in a globalizing world, and the complementarities and synergies between economic and welfare state governance.

Author : Erik Albæk
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : UOM:39015078791749

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Crisis, Miracles, and Beyond by Erik Albæk Pdf

"The book uses analyses of general macro-economic policy, center-local relations, budgeting, labor market, and welfare state transfers and services in three critical areas to present a comprehensive picture of the governance of and interactions between the Danish welfare state and political economy at all levels. A critical introductory survey of the welfare state literature and a synthetic conclusion frame these studies."--BOOK JACKET.

Author : Jørgen Elm Larsen,Tea Torbenfeldt Bengtsson,Morten Frederiksen
Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan
Page : 269 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2014-01-14
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1349574813

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The Danish Welfare State by Jørgen Elm Larsen,Tea Torbenfeldt Bengtsson,Morten Frederiksen Pdf

The Danish Welfare State analyzes a broad range of areas, such as globalization, labor marked, family life, health and social exclusion, the book demonstrates that life in a modern welfare state is changing rapidly, creating both challenges and possibilities for future management.

Author : Karen Fog Olwig,Karsten Pærregaard
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 295 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2011-01-18
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781443827959

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The Question of Integration by Karen Fog Olwig,Karsten Pærregaard Pdf

The question of integration has become an important concern as many societies are experiencing a growing influx of people from abroad. But what does integration really mean? What does it take for a person to be integrated in a society? Through a number of ethnographic case studies, this book explores varying meanings and practices of integration in Denmark. This welfare society, characterized by a liberal life style and strong notions of social equality, is experiencing an upsurge of nationalist sentiment. The authors show that integration is not just a neutral term referring to the incorporation of newcomers into society. It is, more fundamentally, an ideologically loaded concept revolving around the redefining of notions of community and welfare in a society undergoing rapid social and economic changes in the face of globalization. The ethnographic analyses are authored by anthropologists who wish to engage, as scholars and citizens living and working in Denmark, in one of the most contentious issues of our time. The Danish perspectives on integration are discussed from a broader international perspective in three epilogues by non-Danish anthropologists.

Author : Henrik Christoffersen,Michelle Beyeler,Reiner Eichenberger,Peter Nannestad,Martin Paldam
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2013-11-26
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9783642372384

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The Good Society by Henrik Christoffersen,Michelle Beyeler,Reiner Eichenberger,Peter Nannestad,Martin Paldam Pdf

Denmark and Switzerland are small and successful countries with exceptionally content populations. However, they have very different political institutions and economic models. They have followed the general tendency in the West toward economic convergence, but both countries have managed to stay on top. They both have a strong liberal tradition, but otherwise their economic strategies are a welfare state model for Denmark and a safe haven model for Switzerland. The Danish welfare state is tax-based, while the expenditures for social welfare are insurance-based in Switzerland. The political institutions are a multiparty unicameral system in Denmark, and a permanent coalition system with many referenda and strong local government in Switzerland. Both approaches have managed to ensure smoothly working political power-sharing and economic systems that allocate resources in a fairly efficient way. To date, they have also managed to adapt the economies to changes in the external environment with a combination of stability and flexibility.

Author : Nils Edling
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2019-01-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9781789201253

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The Changing Meanings of the Welfare State by Nils Edling Pdf

In discussions of economics, governance, and society in the Nordic countries, “the welfare state” is a well-worn analytical concept. However, there has been much less scholarly energy devoted to historicizing this idea beyond its postwar emergence. In this volume, specialists from Denmark, Finland, Sweden, Norway, and Iceland chronicle the historical trajectory of “the welfare state,” tracing the variable ways in which it has been interpreted, valued, and challenged over time. Each case study generates valuable historical insights into not only the history of Northern Europe, but also the welfare state itself as both a phenomenon and a concept.

Author : Karen N. Breidahl,Troels F. Hedegaard,Kristian Kongshøj,Christian A. Larsen
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2021-01-29
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781800376342

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Migrants’ Attitudes and the Welfare State by Karen N. Breidahl,Troels F. Hedegaard,Kristian Kongshøj,Christian A. Larsen Pdf

Analysing two major surveys of 14 different migrant groups connected to Danish register data, this insightful book explores what migrants think of the welfare state. It investigates the question of whether migrants assimilate to the ideas of extensive state intervention in markets and families or if they retain the attitudes and values that are prevalent in their countries of origin.

Author : Gunnar Viby Mogensen
Publisher : Aarhus University Press
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : UOM:39015037438754

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Work Incentives in the Danish Welfare State by Gunnar Viby Mogensen Pdf

In Denmark, as in other Nordic countries, the period since the 1950s has witnessed the development of a modern welfare state with comprehensive public responsibility for the social well-being of the population. But how does this very fine-meshed safety net affect the labour supply - both on the market for legally registered, taxed labour, and on the market for undeclared 'black' labour? Does the welfare state provide too few incentives for the unemployed to seek work, and for those who are employed to work longer hours? And is it the case that the incentive structure encourages do-it-yourself activities? With the support of the Rockwool Foundation, an extensive research project has been carried out, which methodically combines the results of a representative survey with register data. The results, which are presented in this volume, provide a detailed insight into the links between the tax system and the social legislation of the welfare state on the one hand, and the actual behaviour of the Danish labour force on the other.

Author : J. Torfing
Publisher : Springer
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 1998-02-28
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780230505711

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Politics, Regulation and the Modern Welfare State by J. Torfing Pdf

This book presents an alternative theoretical approach to the study of the transformation of the modern welfare state. It draws upon the undogmatic Marxism of Gramsci in order to deconstruct the Marxist tradition and develop a general theory of capitalist regulation which emphasizes the primacy of the political. In so doing, it seeks to integrate French regulation theory and British state theory within the broader framework of discourse analysis. This theoretical framework is applied in an empirical analysis of the Danish variant of the Scandinavian welfare state model. The book is written for advanced undergraduates, postgraduates and professionals within the field of political theory, institutional economics and sociology.

Author : Kenneth E Miller
Publisher : Westview Press
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1991-06-26
Category : History
ISBN : STANFORD:36105035345557

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Denmark by Kenneth E Miller Pdf

The Denmark of the 1990s promises a sharp contrast to that of the postwar years. In this critical introduction, Professor Kenneth Miller delves into the social, government and public policies of Denmark, focusing on the changes that have transformed it over the last 40 years.

Author : Jesper Vestermark Køber,Niklas Olsen,Heidi Vad Jønsson
Publisher : University of Southern Denmark
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2022-09-07
Category : History
ISBN : 8740833631

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Citizen Categories in the Danish Welfare State by Jesper Vestermark Køber,Niklas Olsen,Heidi Vad Jønsson Pdf

Citizen Categories in the Danish Welfare State approaches the question of the political legitimacy of the welfare state from a new perspective. It argues that legitimation of the welfare state is inextricably linked to particular ideas about the nature of its citizens, encompassed in so-called 'citizen categories'. Offering the first major study of citizen categories, their origins and alterations over time and their role in shaping welfare policies and institutions, the volume helps us bridge the gap between our understanding of the historical development of the welfare state and the present political situation.

Author : Henrik Jensen
Publisher : Plus
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Political Science
ISBN : STANFORD:36105029990384

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The Welfare State by Henrik Jensen Pdf

Author : Marta Padovan-Özdemir,Trine Øland
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2022-05-17
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781000584691

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Racism in Danish Welfare Work with Refugees by Marta Padovan-Özdemir,Trine Øland Pdf

This book explores contemporary Danish relations of colonial complicity in welfare work with newly arrived refugees (1978-2016) as recursive histories that reveal new shapes and shades of racism. Focussing on super- and subordination in helping relations of postcoloniality, the book displays the durability of coloniality and the workings of raceless racism in welfare work with refugees. Its main contribution is the excavation of stock stories of colour-blindness, potentialising and compassion, which help welfare workers invest in burying that which keeps haunting welfare work with refugees, i.e., modern ghosts of difference, docility and dignity. The book dismantles the global myth of the Danish benevolent, universalistic welfare state and it is of interest to every scholar and student, who wants to make inquiries about Danish exceptionalism and the hidden interaction between past and present, the visible and invisible in Danish welfare work with refugees.

Author : Lars Nørby Johansen
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 118 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 1982
Category : Denmark
ISBN : IND:30000121015303

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The Danish Welfare State, 1945-1980 by Lars Nørby Johansen Pdf