Modern Welfare States: Scandinavian Politics and Policy in the Global AgeBloomsbury Academic, 2003 M07 30 - 403 pages Einhorn and Logue analyze the political, economic, and social challenges facing five small, affluent, and advanced industrial democracies in Scandinavia: Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway, and Sweden. Updated and expanded from its successful predecessor, this edition emphasizes how global and European developments have affected democratic policymaking in areas such as: |
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... Soviet Union fundamentally changed the Scandinavian world . Economically , it devastated the Finnish economy , producing in the early 1990s the worst economic crisis in that country since the Great Depression . Geopolitically , it ...
... Soviet Union in November 1939 and , through valiant resistance , prevented occupation and perhaps the fate of the small Baltic republics . Finland fought a renewed war with the USSR between 1941 and 1944 as an ally ( militarily , not ...
... Soviet Union itself in 1991 marked the end of an era . The Cold War was over , as was the separate COMECON trading system that included Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union . It also meant the end of the special Finnish trading ...
Contents
Still the Social Laboratory? | 3 |
The Perils of Success | 15 |
Is There a Scandinavian Democratic Model? | 37 |
Copyright | |
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