Larsson, Bengt
Transformations of the Swedish Welfare State
Part I. Approaching the Swedish Model
1. Transformations of the Swedish Welfare State: Social Engineering,Governance and Governmentality
Bengt Larsson, Martin Letell, Håkan Thörn
2. Pathways of the Welfare State:Growth and Democracy
Martin Peterson
Part II. Security and Control
3. The Swedish Welfare-Warfare Nexus and the New Security Architecture
Hans Glimell
4. Governing Unruly Technology:Swedish Politicians and Nuclear Power
Göran Sundqvist
5. Social Policy Reforms in Sweden: New Perspectives on Rights and Obligations
Ulla Björnberg
6. Labour Market Policies in Transition: From Social Engineering to Standby-Ability
Mattias Bengtsson, Tomas Berglund
7. Decentring Economic Regulation and Control: Reinforcing Trust through Self-Regulation
Bengt Larsson, Oskar Engdahl
8. Criminal Records: Governing Symbols
Christel Backman
Part III. Public Health
9. The Advanced Liberal Logic of Nicotine Replacement and the Swedish Invention of Smoking as Addiction
Mark Elam, Andreas Gunnarsson
10. From Medicine by Wire to Governing Wireless: Changing Geographies of Healthcare
Jesper Petersson
11. Governing End of Life: The Case of Sweden
Nora Machado Johansson
12. Governing by Drugs: The Denial of Subsidy for Viagra Use in Sweden
Ebba Sjögren, Ericka Johnson
Part IV. The City
13. Governing Movements in Urban Space
Håkan Thörn
14. From Hidden Homophiles to Public Rainbows: A Story of Liberation?
Cathrin Wasshede
15. Real Estate Ownership Concentration and Urban Governance
Michael Landzelius
16. Homelessness as Politics and Market
Cecilia Hansen Lbfstrand
17. Conclusions: Re-Engineering the Swedish Welfare State
Håkan Thörn, Bengt Larsson
18. Afterword: Social Change,Scholarly Change and Scholarly Continuity
Göran Therborn
Keywords: Political Science and International Relations, Public Policy, Politics of the Welfare State, Social Policy, Political Science, Social Care, Urban Studies/Sociology
- Editor
- Larsson, Bengt
- Letell, Martin
- Thörn, Håkan
- Publisher
- Springer
- Publication year
- 2012
- Language
- en
- Edition
- 1
- Page amount
- 334 pages
- Category
- Society
- Format
- Ebook
- eISBN (PDF)
- 9780230363953
- Printed ISBN
- 978-1-349-33285-4