The Rise and Fall of the Miraculous Welfare Machine : : Immigration and Social Democracy in Twentieth-Century Sweden / / Carly Elizabeth Schall.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Complete eBook-Package 2016
• VerfasserIn: Schall, Carly Elizabeth,
• Place / Publishing House: Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2016]; ©2016
• Year of Publication: 2016
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (258 p.) :; 4 tables, 2 charts
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; Acknowledgments --; Introduction --; PART I. HOMOGENEITY IN THE PEOPLE’S HOME --; Chapter 1. 1928–1932: Ethnic Nation and Social Demo cratic Consolidation --; Chapter 2. 1945–1950: Making the “ People’s Home” --; Interlude 1. A Swedish Welfare State, a Welfare State for Swedes --; PART II. HETEROGENEITY IN THE PEOPLE’S HOME --; Chapter 3. 1968–1975: Security, Equality, and Choice: Expanding the People’s Home --; Chapter 4. 1991–1995: People’s Home No Longer? The Breakdown of the Miraculous Welfare Machine --; Interlude 2. Is There Room for Difference in Social Democracy? --; Chapter 5. The End of Social-Democratic Hegemony --; Conclusions: Who Belongs in the Swedish People’s Home? --; Notes --; References --; Index
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9781501704093; 9783110667493; 9783110485103; 9783110485332
• DOI: 10.7591/9781501704093
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Carly Elizabeth Schall.

Sweden is well known for the success of its welfare state. Many believe that success was made possible in part by the country's ethnic homogeneity and that the increased diversity of Sweden’s population is putting its welfare state at risk. Few, however, have suggested convincing mechanisms for explaining the precise relationship between relative ethnic homogeneity/heterogeneity and the welfare state. In this book Carly Elizabeth Schall acknowledges the important role of ethnic homogeneity in Sweden’s thriving welfare state, but she argues that it mattered primarily because political elites—especially social democrats—made it matter.Schall shows that diversity and the welfare state are related but that diversity does not undermine the welfare state in a straightforward way. Tracing the development of the Swedish welfare state from the late 1920s until the present day, she focuses on five historical periods of crisis. She argues that the story of Swedish national identity is a story of elite-driven hegemony-building and that the linking of social democracy and national identity colored the integration of immigrants in important ways. Social democracy could have withstood the challenge posed by immigration, but the faltering of social democratic hegemony opened a door for anti-immigrant sentiment. In her deft analysis of the relationship between immigration and the welfare state in Sweden, Schall makes a compelling argument that has relevance for immigration policy in the United States and elsewhere.