...This chapter discusses the descriptive premises of the notion of a distinctive Nordic welfare model. It asks in what sense the Nordic welfare states constitute a distinctive type, and whether its core features have remained stable in recent decades. The global interest in the Nordic model is best...

... Zealand decriminalization intersectionality white supremacy Nordic model Commercial sex is an evolving industry that stratifies people, desire, bodies, income, and access to sex along many lines. In the heterosexual market where straight, cisgender men buy sex from cisgender or transgender...

..., and is a strong form of state power in global politics. Through both theoretical inquiry and substantive analysis on the Nordic model, the book offers a deep institutionalist account of normative state power in the welfare state form. A case study on the internationalist networks of Nordic state innovators...

... in exchange relations. The republican economic model developed here resembles a modified version of a common European social model, viz. the Nordic model, which combines flexible labor markets, free trade, and bracing competition with high levels of social support in the form of generous welfare benefits...

...The author analyses the success of the Nordic model, but emphasises cultural factors, or ‘civic literacy’ that have encouraged citizens to accept that collective solutions are in their individual interests. He does not see the social democratic model as being in terminal decline, although he does...

... in the world. These Icelandic reforms of the parental leave system have gained wide attention and have moved the country from a minimal system to a fast-track engineering of parental roles. The Nordic model of parental leave, with a special fathers' quota, today has its most radical expression in Iceland...

... time. Part One of the book describes the notion of the Scandinavian welfare states as ‘woman-friendly’ through historical and contemporary comparative analyses. Part Two deals with contemporary challenges to gender-equality policies raised by recent developments in Scandinavia. The Nordic model stands...

... that diversity stands in tension with the values of solidarity and universalism, which are central to the Nordic model. One of the biggest challenges for the Nordic model is to develop new forms of gender-inclusive citizenship rooted in these cosmopolitan or reflective forms of solidarity. citizenship class...

... societies’, scepticisms arise regarding how the Nordic model will persist even through the deep recession experienced during the early 1990s. Nordic countries are often deemed as universal welfare states and are believed to be not without social corporatism and Keynesian interventionism. Although...

... prevalent in the recent past and sometimes still a part of dominant discourses. 14 After presenting the initial case for the Nordic Model and exposing the flaws of the alternatives, chapter 3 of Watson’s contribution returns to provide the full defense of the Nordic Model. There she presents the evidence...

... a few terms. There are four forms of regulation of prostitution: criminalization, decriminalization, legalization, and the Nordic Model. Criminalization refers to a system of regulation in which statutes criminalize both the selling and the buying of sex. Additionally, under criminalization regimes...

... Nordic co operative movements Nordic regional co operation trusts agricultural co operatives Denmark co operative movement in folk high schools Howe Frederic C Ireland Musiał Kazimierz Nielsen Anders Nordic model Co operative Wholesale Society CWS international co operative congresses...

.... This chapter provides a detailed and extensive assessment of Finland’s high participation system (HPS) of higher education, in a historical perspective and with focus on Finland’s core values of equality and equity. The country case challenges some of the HPS propositions. The Nordic model is built upon...

... and fairly assess democratic socialism s desirability, we need to compare it to the best version of capitalism that humans have devised: social democratic capitalism, or what is often called the Nordic model.9 I try in this book to offer such an assessment. My conclusion is that capitalism, and particularly...

..., hate crimes, home-grown terrorist attacks and transboundary conundrums such as the global financial crisis of 2008 2009 (which hit Iceland particularly hard). In these policy domains and in response to these common challenges, the evidence of a Nordic model in the way the various Nordic governments...

...This chapter analyses Scotland and Norway’s very different structures of local governance – a key comparative area of the ‘Nordic model’ - and the markedly different levels of autonomy in local government. The political, social and economic factors and processes are discussed starting...

...The idea of the Nordic model has been discussed as part of debates on Scottish independence for over four decades and featured prominently in the 2014 independence campaign. This chapter examines the idealized Scottish portrayal of Nordic and especially Norwegian society and the welfare state...

... sustainable public finances. The chapter has three main conclusions. First, the financial crises created a new political environment allowing for structural reforms to be implemented and more attention to be given to sustainable public finances. Second, the authors suggest that the Nordic model has been...

...Watson aims to present the initial positive case for the Nordic model as a sex equality approach to prostitution. It is argued that social conditions of inequality (based on sex, age, class, race) structure the conditions of entry into prostitution and structure it internally. Watson addresses...

... Germany Greece Ireland large states Portugal Southern Europe United States cities regions Nordic model Nordic paradox small states bubbles The Nordic states have attracted attention for their capacity to adopt best practice in a wide variety of policy domains. The Economist...