The Making and Circulation of Nordic Models, Ideas and Images
This critical and empirically based volume examines the multiple existing Nordic models, providing analytically innovative attention to the multitude of circulating ideas, images and experiences referred to as Nordic.
It addresses related paradoxes as well as patterns of circulation, claims about the exceptionality of Nordic models, and the diffusion and impact of Nordic experiences and ideas. Providing original case studies, the book further examines how the Nordic models have been constructed, transformed and circulated in time and in space. It investigates the actors and channels that have been involved in circulating models: journalists and media, bureaucrats and policy-makers, international organizations, national politicians and institutions, scholars, public diplomats and analyses where and why models have travelled. Finally, the book shows that Nordic models, perspectives, or ideas do not always originate in the Nordic region, nor do they always develop as deliberate efforts to promote Nordic interests.
This book will be of key interest to Nordic and Scandinavian studies, European studies, and more broadly to history, sociology, political science, marketing, social policy, organizational theory and public management.
Haldor Byrkjeflot is a Professor at the Department of Sociology and Human Geography at University of Oslo, Norway.
Lars Mjset is Professor of Sociology and Director of the Oslo Summer School for Comparative Social Science Studies at the Social Science Faculty, University of Oslo, Norway.
Mads Mordhorst is Associate Professor at Copenhagen Business School (CBS), and the Director of the Centre for Business History, Denmark.
Klaus Petersen is Professor of Welfare State History at the Danish Centre for Welfare Studies, and Chair of Humanities at the Danish Centre for Advanced Study, University of Southern Denmark, Denmark.
Nordic Studies in a Global Context
Series editors: Haldor Byrkjeflot, University of Oslo, Norway; Eirinn Larsen, University of Oslo, Norway; and Cathie Jo Martin, Boston University, USA
This new book series aims to open up more empirical, critical and reflective perspectives on the Nordic cultures, institutions, legal frameworks and models in a global and comparative context and to create a bridge between humanistic Nordic studies and the comparative and IR-oriented social sciences and law programmes. It looks to encourage methodologically driven and critical reflection on the nature, construction and use of Nordic traditions, models, institutions, laws, discourses and images. The series welcomes submissions from a broad range of disciplines across the social sciences, law and humanities.
The Making and Circulation of Nordic Models, Ideas and Images
Edited by Haldor Byrkjeflot, Lars Mjset, Mads Mordhorst and Klaus Petersen
The Making and Circulation of Nordic Models, Ideas and Images
Edited by
Haldor Byrkjeflot,
Lars Mjset, Mads Mordhorst
and Klaus Petersen
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Names: Byrkjeflot, Haldor, editor. | Mjset, Lars, editor. |
Mordhorst, Mads, editor. | Petersen, Klaus, 1965 editor.
Title: The making and circulation of Nordic models, ideals and images / edited by Haldor Byrkjeflot, Lars Mjset, Mads Mordhorst, and Klaus Petersen.
Description: Abingdon, Oxon ; New York : Routledge, 2022. |
Series: Nordic studies in a global context | Includes bibliographical references and index.
Identifiers: LCCN 2021030157 (print) | LCCN 2021030158 (ebook) |
ISBN 9780367742775 (hardback) | ISBN 9780367742843 (paperback) | ISBN 9781003156925 (ebook)
Subjects: LCSH: ScandinaviaCivilization. | ScandinaviaEconomic policy. | ScandinaviaSocial policy.
Classification: LCC DL30 .M27 2022 (print) | LCC DL30 (ebook) | DDC 948dc23
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2021030157
LC ebook record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2021030158
ISBN: 978-0-367-74277-5 (hbk)
ISBN: 978-0-367-74284-3 (pbk)
ISBN: 978-1-003-15692-5 (ebk)
DOI: 10.4324/9781003156925
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Contents
List of figures
List of tables
List of contributors
Haldor Byrkjeflot, Mads Mordhorst and Klaus Petersen
PART 1
The Nordic model as socio-economic and political construct
2 Images of the Nordic welfare model: historical layers and ambiguities
Pauli Kettunen and Klaus Petersen
3 Social science, humanities, and the Nordic model
Lars Mjset
4 The utopian trap: between contested Swedish models and benign Nordic branding
Carl Marklund
5 Tracing the Nordic model: French creations, Swedish appropriations, and Nordic articulations
Andreas Mrkved Hellenes
6 Adapting the Swedish model: PSOE-SAP relations during the Spanish transition to democracy
Alan Granadino and Peter Stadius
7 The Nordic model in international development aid: explanation, experience and export
Sunniva Engh
PART 2
Nordic models in specific spheres
8 A cross between Batman and a public ear: how the United States transformed the ombudsman
Byron Z. Rom-Jensen
9 Branding the Nordic model of prostitution policy
Malcolm Langford and May-Len Skilbrei
10 The making and circulation of corporate quotas
Mari Teigen
11 Beveridge or Bismarck? Choosing the Nordic model in British healthcare policy 1997c.2015
Tom Hoctor
12 From innovation to impact: translating New Nordic Cuisine into a Nordic food model
Silviya Svejenova, Jesper Strandgaard Pedersen and Haldor Byrkjeflot
13 The creation of a regional brand: Scandinavian design
Mads Mordhorst
14 Conclusion and perspectives
Haldor Byrkjeflot, Mads Mordhorst and Klaus Petersen
Figures
- 4.1 Graph of frequency of various models between 1900 and 2000 from the corpus English with a smoothing of three
- 4.2 Graph of frequency of Nordic countries between 1900 and 2000 from the corpus English with a smoothing of three
