1st Edition

The Nordic Economic, Social and Political Model Challenges in the 21st Century

Edited By Anu Koivunen, Jari Ojala, Janne Holmén Copyright 2021
272 Pages 11 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

272 Pages 11 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

The Nordic Model is the 20th-century Scandinavian recipe for combining stable democracies, individual freedom, economic growth and comprehensive systems for social security. But what happens when Sweden and Finland – two countries topping global indexes for competitiveness, productivity, growth, quality of life, prosperity, and equality – start doubting themselves and their future? Is the Nordic... Read more

1. Always in crisis, always a solution? The Nordic model as a political and scholarly concept

Anu Koivunen, Jari Ojala and Janne Holmen

2. Three driving forces: structural challenges for Nordic democracies in the 2010s

Henrik Meinander

3. Lost land of bliss: imagined temporalities of the Nordic welfare state

Ainur Elmgren

4. More or less equality? facts, debates, and policies related to the Nordic model

Petri Roikonen, Jari Ojala, and Jari Eloranta

5. Liquid neutrality: paradoxes of democracy in Finnish and Swedish NATO discussions?

Matti Roitto and Antero Holmila

6. The decline of Nordic social democracy

Kjell Ostberg

7. Conservatives at the crossroads: cooperating or resisting extremism and populism?

Torbjorn Nilsson

8. Nordic populists as hegemony challengers

Emilia Palonen and Liv Sunnercrantz

9. Cultural policy and cultural diversity

Pasi Saukkonen

10. Managing moods: media, politicians, and anxiety over public debate

Anu Koivunen

11. Persistent paradoxes, turbulent times: gender equality policies in the Nordics in the 2010s

Johanna Kantola

12. Adapting the Nordic welfare state model to the challenges of automation

Heikki Hiilamo

13. Education 4.0. Nordic long-term planning and educational policies in the fourth industrial revolution

Janne Holmen

Biography

Anu Koivunen is Professor of Gender Studies at the Faculty of Social Science at Tampere University, Finland, on leave of absence from professorship in the Department of Media Studies at Stockholm University, Sweden.

Jari Ojala is Professor of Comparative Business History at the University of Jyväskylä, Finland. He is also the Vice Dean at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, responsible for research and innovations.

Janne Holmén is Associate Professor of History of Education at Uppsala University, Sweden, and researcher at the Institute of Contemporary History, Södertörn University, Sweden.