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Is Sweden being torn apart?
— privatization and old and new patterns of welfare state support | | Author(s) | Jonas Edlund, Ingemar Johansson Seva |
| Journal title | Social Policy and Administration, vol 47, no 5, October 2013 |
| Publisher | Wiley Blackwell, October 2013 |
| Pages | pp 542-564 |
| Source | http://wileyonlinelibrary.com/journal/spol |
| Keywords | Social welfare ; Services ; Private enterprise ; Social policy ; Social change ; Public opinion ; Sweden. |
| Annotation | Although privatisation of welfare services delivery has been a major trend in Sweden in the last twenty years, this seems to have had little influence on public opinion. This article describes the politico-institutional changes that have taken place in Sweden and the balance between the state and the market. The trend towards privatisation has not fueled a general shift towards more market liberal attitudes among Swedes. Public support for a mixed welfare model and, to some extent, a market model, is comparatively stronger in municipalities where welfare services are carried out by private actors. Conversely, data shows that public support for the traditional Swedish state model is more widespread in municipalities having a low degree of welfare services privatisation. Given that the interface between citizens and welfare agencies, as well as the accompanying public preferences, follow distinctly different trajectories in different parts of Sweden, the welfare state will be at the centre of political struggles in the forseeable future and it is yet to be seen whether or not the country will be torn apart. (NH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-130927201 A |
| Classmark | TY: I: W4D: TM2: TMH: U5: 76P |
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