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Normative Foundations of the Welfare State

This scholarly work offers analyses, perspectives and interpretations of the normative foundation of the Nordic welfare state model. Welfare programmes and institutions tend to be analysed as instrumental arrangements, overlooking the fact that welfare programmes essentially are expressions of moral conceptions and values.

The authors examine the main principles in this model, exploring their origins and the relationship between them. Paying particular attention to the principles of universalism, public responsibility for welfare, and work for all, they consider their significance for current welfare policy and question whether external economic and ideological pressures threaten these principles. The book is divided into three parts:

considers the historical trajectories behind the Nordic welfare model.

looks more specifically at normative tensions and dilemmas in current welfare policies with a focus on women-friendly welfare, attitudes to basic income, and alcohol and drug misuse.

focuses on the possible change in the normative foundation of the Nordic welfare states.

This book is essential reading for researchers and students of the welfare state, and also to those in the fields of social policy, comparative politics and political economy.

Nanna Kildal is a Researcher at Stein Rokkan Centre for Social Studies, University of Bergen. She has written a number of articles on the 1990s welfare reforms in Europe and USA. Stein Kuhnle is Professor of Comparative Politics at the University of Bergen. His recent publications in English include Survival of the European Welfare State and Modernizing the Korean Welfare State.

Roudedge/EUI studies in the political economy of welfare

Series editors: Martin Rhodes and Maurizio Ferrera

The European University Institute, Florence, Italy

This series presents leading edge research on the recasting of European welfare states. The series is interdisciplinary, featuring contributions from experts in economics, political science and social policy. The books provide a comparative analysis of topical issues, including:

reforms of the major social programmespensions, health, social security

the changing political cleavages in welfare politics

policy convergence and social policy innovation

the impact of globalization.

1 Immigration and Welfare

Challenging the borders of the welfare state

Edited by Michael Bommes and Andrew Geddes

2 Renegotiating the Welfare State

Flexible adjustment through corporatist concertation

Edited by Frans van Waarden and Gerhard Lehmbruch

3 Comparing Welfare Capitalism

Social policy and political economy in Europe, Japan and the USA

Edited by Bernhard Ebbinghaus and Philip Manow

4 Controlling a New Migration World

Edited by Virginie Giraudon and Christian Joppke

5 The Moral Economy of Welfare States

Britain and Germany compared

Steffen Mau

6 Welfare State Reform in Southern Europe

Fighting poverty and social exclusion in Italy, Spain, Portugal and Greece

Edited by Maurizio Ferrera

7 Normative Foundations of the Welfare State

The Nordic experience

Edited by Nanna Kildal and Stein Kuhnle

Normative Foundations of the Welfare State

The Nordic experience

Edited by Nanna Kildal and Stein Kuhnle

LONDON AND NEW YORK

First published 2005
by Routledge
2 Park Square, Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon OX14 4RN

Simultaneously published in the USA and Canada
by Routledge
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This edition published in the Taylor & Francis e-Library, 2007.

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2005 Selection and editorial matter, Nanna Kildal and Stein Kuhnle; individual chapters, the contributors

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ISBN 0-203-69524-0 Master e-book ISBN

ISBN13: 978-0-203-69524-1 Master e-book ISBN

ISBN13: 978-1-134-27282-2 ePub ISBN

ISBN 0-415-34943-5

Contents

NANNA KILDAL AND STEIN KUHNLE

NANNA KILDAL AND STEIN KUHNLE

BO STRTH

LARS BO KASPERSEN

ANDERS NORDLUND

BIRTE SIIM AND ANETTE BORCHORST

JAN OTTO ANDERSSON AND OLLI E. KANGAS

OLAVI KAUKONEN AND KERSTIN STENIUS

SVEN E.O.HORT

RUNE ERVIK

MARCUS CARSON

STEFN LAFSSON

JRN LOFTAGER

Figures

7.1	Explanatory models for basic income in Finland and Sweden
8.1	Three normative layers in substance misuse treatment in Finland and Sweden
8.2	Provision of institutional treatment for alcohol and drug misusers in Sweden, number and percentage of beds according to type of provider in 1980, 1990 and 2001
8.3	Distribution of visits (percentage) of alcohol and drug abusers in different social and health care services during one day in 1991, 1995 and 1999 in Finland
10.1	Philosophical approaches to distributive fairness and their presence in pension institutions
12.1	Take-up rate of old age and invalidity pensions: Iceland and 18 OECD countries compared (percentage of pensioners receiving pension)
12.2	Growing share of private sector occupational pensions (managed by NGOs) in the pension regime
12.3	Growing gap between social security pension levels and labour market pay. Basic pension as a percentage of minimal and average pay. Iceland 19882001

Tables

5.1	Participating political parties in the study
5.2	Three ideal types of reform agendas
7.1	Opinion on negative income tax (percentages)
7.2	Opinion about basic income (percentages)

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