Swedish model dying of Baumols? Current debates

New Political Economy

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 79-85

  Mahon, Rianne ^a  

^a CARLETON UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

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POLITICAL ECONOMY;

EURASIA; EUROPE; NORTHERN EUROPE; SCANDINAVIA; SWEDEN;

EID: 33947209106     PISSN: 13563467     EISSN: 14699923     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13563460601068768     Document Type: Article

References (19)

1. Sven Steinmo, 'Bucking the Trend? The Welfare State and the Global Economy: The Swedish Case Up Close', New Political Economy, Vol. 8, No. 1 (2003), p. 42.
2. Torben Iversen & Anne Wren, 'Equality, Employment and Budgetary Restraint: The Trilemma of the Service Economy', World Politics, Vol. 50, No. 4 (1998), pp. 507-46.
3. Steinmo, 'Bucking the Trend', p. 38.
4. Diane Sainsbury, 'Taxation, Family Responsibilities, and Employment', in Diane Sainsbury (ed.), Gender and Welfare State Regimes (Oxford University Press, 1999), p. 80.
5. Gøsta Esping-Andersen, The Social Foundations of Postindustrial Economies (Oxford University Press, 1999), passim.
6. See Sainsbury, 'Taxation'
7. and Christina Bergqvist, Anette Borchorst, Ann-Dorte Christensen, Viveca Rumstedt-Silen, Nina C. Raaum & Audur Styrkarsdottir, Equal Democracies? Gender and Politics in the Nordic Countries (Scandinavian University Press, 1999) for a comparison of the timing, form and extent of the Scandinavian countries' responses.
8. There are important differences among the Nordic countries in this respect but they still stand out in comparison to other OECD countries for their strong investment in 'welfare services'.
9. Stephen Herzenberg, John Alic & Howard Wial, New Rules for a New Economy: Employment and Opportunity in Post-Industrial America (ILR Press, 1998).
10. Statens Offentlig Utredning, Långtidsutredning 2003/2004 SOU: 19, Government of Sweden, 2004, Appendix, p. 31.
11. Statens Offentlig Utredning, Långtidsutredning.
12. This compares to a differential of 3.2 (public) to 1.6 (private) for 1970-1980 and equal growth rates of 1.7 per cent for 1980-1990.
13. Statens Offentlig Utredning Långtidsutredning, p. 50 (my translation).
14. Ibid., p. 53.
15. Dan Andersson, Rolf Andersson, Lars Ernsätter, Anna-K Löfgren, Anna Thoursie & Erik Mohlin, Kan framtidens välfärd finansieras? (Landsorganisation i Sverige, 2004), p. 80.
16. Statens Offentlig Utredning, Långtidsutredning, pp. 120-1.
17. Andersson et al., Kan framtidens välfärd finansieras?, p. 25.
18. Dagens Nyheter, 9 September 2004.
19. Rianne Mahon, 'Death of a Model? Swedish Social Democracy at the End of the Twentieth Century', Studies in Political Economy, No. 63 (2000), pp. 27-60.