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Developments in Swedish Social Policy

Resisting Dionysus

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  • © 2001

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  1. Arthur Gould

    1. Loughborough University, Loughborough, UK

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Table of contents (10 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xv
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  2. Postmodern World …

    • Arthur Gould
    Pages 1-14

  3. … Modern Society

    • Arthur Gould
    Pages 15-27

  4. The “People’s Home”

    • Arthur Gould
    Pages 28-37

  5. Political and Economic Change

    • Arthur Gould
    Pages 38-60

  6. Social Insecurity: Benefits and Services

    • Arthur Gould
    Pages 61-81

  7. Grey Policies: Caring for the Elderly

    • Arthur Gould
    Pages 82-102

  8. The State of Women

    • Arthur Gould
    Pages 103-128

  9. Responses to Unemployment

    • Arthur Gould
    Pages 129-154

  10. The Restrictive Line: Alcohol and Drugs

    • Arthur Gould
    Pages 155-179

  11. Apollo versus Dionysus

    • Arthur Gould
    Pages 180-197

  12. Back Matter

    Pages 198-225
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About this book

For many decades, Sweden was seen as a model welfare state. Only with the onset of economic problems in the 1990s have successive governments felt compelled to curb social spending and abandon the goal of full employment. This book is about the changes introduced and the political, institutional and cultural resistance they encountered. Detailed accounts of changes to welfare services and benefits are included alongside specialist chapters devoted to areas where Sweden itself has claimed to be something of a leader - the care of the elderly, gender equality, employment issues and substance.

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'...this unusually well-written, broad, and detailed examination of Swedish social policy is essential reading...' - Choice

'...Gould's book is - with is wealth of material and wide-ranging considerations - a substantial contribution to the ongoingdebate about Sweden as a uniqu and important case of a modern welfare state.' - Wolfgang Zank, Aalborg University, Journal of Contemporary European Studies

'...an extremely well-informed and creative analysis of Swedish social policy from the outside that produces many important reflections for students, scholars and not least Swedish politicians.' - Lennart Nygren, Professor of Social Work at Umeä University, Sweden, Social Policy

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  • Loughborough University, Loughborough, UK

    Arthur Gould

About the author

ARTHUR GOULD is Reader in Swedish Social Policy at the Department of Social Sciences, Loughborough University. He has published many articles on Swedish drug policy, the Swedish welfare state, long-term unemployment in Sweden and Swedish social policy and the EU. He is the author of Conflict and Control in Welfare Policy: the Swedish Experience (1988), Capitalist Welfare Systems: Japan, Britain and Sweden (1993), and co-author of Voices Within and Without: Responses to Long Term Unemployment in Germany, Sweden and Britain (1998).

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