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The Age of Social Democracy : Norway and Sweden in the Twentieth Century.
This is the history of how two countries on the northern edge of Europe built societies in the twentieth century that became objects of inspiration and envy around the world. Francis Sejersted, one of Scandinavia's leading historians, tells how Norway and Sweden achieved a rare feat by realizin...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés Swedish |
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Princeton :
Princeton University Press,
2011.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover Page
- Half-title Page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- The Many Faces of Modernization
- The Scandinavian Solution
- Three Phases
- National Characteristics
- Overview of the Book
- Part I. 1905-1940: Growth and Social Integration
- Chapter 1: Dreaming the Land of the Future
- Norsk Hydro
- Science and Modernization
- Industrialization, a Natural Process for Sweden
- Norway Follows Hesitantly
- Emigration and Industrialization
- The Norrland Debate
- The Norwegian Concession Laws
- Electricity, the Basis for Technological Modernization
- War and Structural Problems
- Thrust for Socialization
- Consolidation of Two Different Structures
- Rationalization
- Technocracy
- Dreaming the Land of the Future
- Chapter 2: National Integration and Democracy
- The Question of Political Democracy in the Period around 1905
- Mobilizing the Public
- Training for Democracy
- Toward an Integrated School System in Norway
- Contrasting the Two Countries
- Karl Staaff and the Question of Suffrage in Sweden
- Arvid Lindman and the Question of Universal Suffrage
- The Difficult Road to Parliamentarianism
- Gunnar Knudsen and State Capitalism
- Currents of Antiparliamentarianism
- The Farmers and Modernization
- Farmers on the Offensive: Norway
- Farmers on the Offensive: Sweden
- Crisis Settlement in Both Countries
- Women and Civil and Political Rights
- The Integration of Minorities: The Sami
- The Integration of Minorities: Refugees from Germany
- National Integration and Democracy
- Chapter 3: Assistance for Self-Help
- The Conceptual Basis for Social Policy
- A Great Preventive Project
- Health Insurance
- National Pension Plans
- Unemployment Insurance
- Population Crisis?
- The Politics of Sterilization
- Assistance for Self-Help
- Chapter 4: Revolution or Reform
- The Last Great Popular Movement
- Working-Class Culture
- Marxist Rhetoric and Reformist Practice
- An Indistinct Policy
- From One's Own Home to the People's Home: The Labor Movement and the Land Question
- Hjalmar Branting
- The Big Strike of 1909
- The Party Is Split
- Martin Tranmæl
- Worker Scandinavianism
- How Radical?
- "A Peculiar Legalization Activity"
- The Level of Conflict Escalates
- The Solidarity Game Is Established
- Per Albin Hansson and the "People's Home"
- Johan Nygaardsvold and the People's Party
- The Expansionism of the Crisis Policy as Ideology
- Revolution or Reform
- Chapter 5: Distance and Proximity
- Distance
- Proximity
- World War I
- An Expanded Home Market?
- A Nordic Defense Alliance?
- Part II. 1940-1970: The Golden Age of Social Democracy
- Chapter 6: Cooperation in a Menacing World
- Not the Same War
- The Cold War-Still Not the Same War?
- The Internal Danger and Surveillance
- A New Drive for a Nordic Customs Union
- SAS: A Success Story