Democratic State and Democratic Society Institutional Change in the Nordic Model

After the optimism following the fall of the Berlin Wall, the world has seen more of a democratic backlash. But despite the backlashes, in some societies the stability of democracy does not seem to be threatened. Why is this so? One common answer points to civic culture, a shared feeling of responsi...

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Otros Autores: Aakvaag, Gunnar C., editor (editor), Engelstad, Fredrik, editor, Holst, Cathrine, editor
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Warsaw ; Berlin : De Gruyter Open Poland [2019]
Colección:De Gruyter Open Access ebooks.
Acceso en línea:Conectar con la versión electrónica
Ver en Universidad de Navarra:https://innopac.unav.es/record=b43322657*spi
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Preface
  • 1 Introduction: Democracy, Institutional Compatibility and Change
  • 2 Social Institutions and the Quality of Democracy
  • 3 A Democratic Way of Life: Institutionalizing Individual Freedom in Norway
  • 4 Welfare State Discourse and Citizenship Politics: From 'Silent' Policy to Steering Logic
  • 5 Redistributing Knowledge? How Institutions Affect Citizens' Political Knowledge Levels: The Scandinavian Case Compared
  • 6 Old and New Social Movements in the Nordic Countries: History and Future in an International Perspective
  • 7 Committee Governance in Consensus Cultures: An Exploration of Best Practice Cases in Germany and Norway
  • 8 Translation and Institutional Change: What Happened when Participatory Budgeting Came to the Nordic Countries?
  • 9 Can Descriptive Representation be Justified outside Politics?
  • 10 The Battle over a Fair Share: The Creation of Labour Market Institutions in Norway
  • 11 Workplace Democracy: Representation and Participation Gaps in the Norwegian Labour Market Model
  • 12 Bowling Alone and Working Together? Social Capital at Work
  • 13 Stability and Change in Scandinavian Welfare: The Nonprofit Sector as a Buffer against For-Profit Expansion
  • 14 No Factory for Dreams: Street-Level Bureaucrats between Activation Targets and User Orientation
  • 15 The Demand for Work-Family Policies in Advanced Capitalist Democracies
  • 16 Business Elite Confidence in Political Institutions: The Case of Norway
  • 17 Elite Compromise as a Mode of Institutional Change: The United States and Norway Compared
  • 18 Afterword: Institutional Differentiation and Change
  • About the Authors.