The Swedish experiment : the COVID-19 response and its controversies /

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This short book explores Sweden's response to the global pandemic and the wave of controversies it triggered. It helps to makes sense of the response by defining 'a Swedish model' that incorporates the country's value system and offers a case study for understanding the ways in w...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Aucante, Yohann (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Bristol, UK : Bristol University Press, 2022.
Colección:Bristol shorts research.
Temas:
COVID-19 (Disease) > Sweden.
Public health > Sweden.
POLITICAL SCIENCE / Comparative Politics.
COVID-19 (Disease)
Public health.
Sweden.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Front Cover
  • The Swedish Experiment: The COVID-19 Response and its Controversies
  • Copyright information
  • Table of contents
  • List of abbreviations
  • About the Author
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • The Swedish puzzle
  • Shifting representations of the swedish model
  • Outline of the book
  • ONE The Uses of National Models
  • The contradictions of progressiveness
  • The dialectical nature of the Swedish model
  • From public diplomacy to Nordic branding
  • Institutional dimensions of the Swedish model
  • Swedish welfare and care dilemmas in light of the pandemic
  • 'Pandemocracy'
  • TWO The First Wave
  • Setting the stage
  • Actors on the scene: shaping the response to COVID-19
  • Crisis preparedness
  • Herd immunity
  • Political abdication?
  • THREE Comparing Nations in a World Crisis
  • The battle for public opinion
  • The uses of Swedish exceptionalism
  • Tropes and sequences in opinion-building
  • The Nordic family divided
  • Defending the Swedish line on multiple fronts
  • Early justifications of the Swedish policies
  • Between herd immunity and health care nationalism
  • FOUR Riding the Waves
  • A temporary return to grace for Sweden
  • The final demise of exceptionalism
  • A new pandemic legal order
  • Sweden in the global rush for vaccines
  • Evaluating responsibility
  • Public inquiries and the scandal of elderly care
  • Learning the hard lessons
  • FIVE Recasting the Swedish Model in Crisis Mode
  • Welfare responses
  • The political and moral economy of the pandemic
  • The political uses of Sweden
  • Trust, consensus and conflicts
  • Democracy, emergency and expert rule
  • Conclusion
  • References
  • Index
  • Back Cover.

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