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The extent to which the "Swedish model" is an intricate web of historically rooted sociocultural patterns is explored. A comparative historical analysis of the relationships between Swedish welfare policies & institutions in areas like labor market relations & family policy, on the one hand, & the Swedish work ethic, individualism, & family structure, on the other, suggests that the Swedish welfare state, which has become so firmly associated with the past fifty years of Social Democratic hegemony, was made possible by & still depends on cultural proclivities that are of ancient origins. From this perspective, the relevance & usefulness of the Swedish experience for reformers in Eastern Europe lies less in its being a transportable model & more in indicating the crucial but complex relationship between culture & political reform, & the awesome challenge that the (re)construction of political & economic culture poses. AA

Argues that the exceptionally egalitarian, individualistic, and work-oriented features of traditional Swedish culture have made the welfare state viable. Implications for ex-communist countries; some comparisons to outcomes of similar policies in Great Britain and the US.

In 1516 Thomas More reported to the world the fictitious travels of Raphael Hythlodaeus who ventured through many lands to Utopia. From then on traveller's tales -- real & imagined -- have been a staple of social analysts & advocates. Many Australian policy analysts & advocates in the 1970s & 1980s were likewise inspired by reports from distant Sweden. They spoke of the Swedish Model & found in it the basis for a critique of Australian society & also the blueprint for a better alternative. The Swedish Model showed Australian faults to the analysts & offered a path to follow to the advocates. They had what Karl Mannheim calls a utopian mentality that captured but also distorted Swedish reality. Yet Swedish reality is more complicated than any model & it was left aside by the champions of the Swedish Model. These Swedophiles may be examples of the theoretical man of whom Alexis de Tocqueville, himself a traveller to a distant land seeking knowledge, spoke; theorists are unable to accept that reality seldom bends to a plan. References. Adapted from the source document.

Since the turn of the 1980–90s the Swedish society has undergone fundamental changes. It has altered the vector of the socioeconomic development. The social democrats have lost their position as the dominant party. They changed the course of the governmental policy from social-state to liberal one that was taken over and strengthened by the government of center-right parties after their victory in the 2006 and 2010 general elections. The social democrats have found themselves in the unprecedented since 1917 long opposition. All of this means that, despite keeping predominance of the institutional-redistributive principle of social policy, the former model of societal development has in essence consigned to history.

Introduces a special volume in which Swedish politics in the 1980s as well as the prospects for the 1990s are interpreted in the light of the so-called Swedish model. With an increase in religious values, the rise in support for Kristdemokratiska Samhallspartiet and the emergence of Ny Demodrati, Swedish politics' future is in the air for the first time since 1945. (SJK)

Ausgehend von der Annahme, daß das sogenannte Schwedische Modell erstmalig seit dem zweiten Weltkrieg grundsätzlich in Frage gestellt wird, beschreibt der Beitrag dieses eher praktische als theoretische Modell in seiner politisch-historischen Entwicklung und arbeitet die tragenden Elemente der Kompromißpolitik, des sozialen Konsens (mit den Mitteln korporatistischer Interessenartikulation und -vermittlung) sowie der umfassenden wohlfahrtsstaatlichen Regulierung heraus. (AuD-Ber)