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Labor migration and migration policy -- Labor migration and the preservation of the Swedish model -- Rejecting calls for deregulation of labor migration policy : LO and the SAP in the 2002 Swedish parliamentary election campaign -- The battle to preserve an incentive-compatible labor migration policy -- Labor migration and the eastward enlargement of the European Union : understanding the divergent preferences of the SAP and LO -- Labor migration and the Swedish model, at home and abroad

Intro -- ELITES, LANGUAGE, AND THE POLITICS OF IDENTITY -- Contents -- List of Tables -- Acknowledgements -- 1. Language, Politics, and Modern Norway -- 2. National Identity, Party Identity, and the Role of Nynorsk in the New Norwegian State -- 3. Language and Social Democracy in Twentieth-Century Norway -- 4. The Shifting Fate of the Sámi Languages in Modern Norway -- 5. Norway Compared: The Case of Belgian Language Politics -- 6. Conclusion -- Notes -- 1: LANGUAGE, POLITICS, AND MODERN NORWAY -- 2: NATIONAL IDENTITY, PARTY IDENTITY, AND THE ROLE OF NYNORSK IN THE NEW NORWEGIAN STATE -- 3: LANGUAGE AND SOCIAL DEMOCRACY IN TWENTIETH-CENTURY NORWAY -- 4: THE SHIFTING FATE OF THE SÁMI LANGUAGES IN MODERN NORWAY -- 5: NORWAY COMPARED: THE CASE OF BELIGAN LANGUAGE POLITICS -- 6: CONCLUSION -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Z.

Faced with a declining workforce, why does the Swedish Social Democratic Party (SAP) oppose employer proposals for increased labor migration from non-EU countries? This article explores whether perspectives on policymaking in the varieties of capitalism (VoC) literature can account for this puzzle. VoC scholars maintain that policymakers prefer reforms conforming to the national political economy, improving firm capacity and ensuring better economic performance. Employers are also thought to support policies incentivecompatible with the prevailing model of capitalism. My analysis shows that while the SAP backed labor migration policies compatible with the Swedish coordinated market economy, it did not do so for reasons of efficiency or economic performance. The SAP fears that liberal reform, preferred by employers, will damage the Swedish model, undermine active labor market policies and weaken unions. The case of Swedish labor migration policy underscores how economic reform reflects political conflict and not the desire to preserve equilibrium.

In recent years, public policies aimed at regulating and combating prostitution have differed significantly in Nordic countries. Among those countries, Sweden is unique in its ban on the purchase -- though not the sale -- of sexual services. With the goal of understanding the reason behind this policy difference, the authors examine the role of ideas in the formulation of public policy and policy changes. In outlining how this works, the authors place ideas in three distinct categories: Policy positions, expert knowledge, and ideational frameworks. In regard to the third category, utilizing the persuasive force of established norms can play a critical role in gaining needed support for the successful adoption of a particular policy. Adapted from the source document.

"Discursive governance refers to implicit mechanisms of governance such as narratives, leitmotifs, and strategic metaphors in political language. It examines how the framing of policies affects political and social representations in accordance with the wishes of political authorities. Ad hoc discourses generate a space where politicians configure, transmit, and initiate politics ideationally, rather than vouchsafing substantial policy change with respect to governance. This book studies the dynamics of political discourse in governance processes. It demonstrates the process in which political discourses become normative mechanisms, first marking socially constructed realities in politics, second playing a role in delineating the subsequent policy frames, and third influencing the public sphere. The key contribution of this volume is tracing the discursive relationships among actors, namely governments and political parties, policy participants and societal actors, and the public in European nation states, intergovernmental organizations, subnational or regional entities, and geographies beyond Europe where European norms trigger ideational processes of change. The book extends earlier work in the field by exploring how policy and politics create social knowledge, make some ideas publicly salient, and bring together coalitions of actors that find certain policy alternatives attractive and eventually generate political and policy change"--