List of contributors
Acknowledgements
Preface: Dai Bingran
Editors Introduction
Section 1: History
1. Klas mark & Urban Lundberg: Social Rights and Social Security: The Swedish Welfare State, 1900-2000
2. Niels Finn Christiansen & Klaus Petersen: The History of the Danish Welfare State
3. yvind Bjrnson: The Social Democrats and the Norwegian Welfare State: Some Perspectives
4. Pauli Kettunen: The Nordic Model and the Tension between the Social and the EconomicFinland as a Case
5. Gudmundur Jonsson: Iceland in the Mirror of the Nordic Welfare State
6. Klaus Petersen: Constructing Nordic Welfare? Nordic Social Political Cooperation 1919-1955
Section 2: Characteristics
7. Nanna Kildal & Stein Kuhnle: The Nordic Welfare Model and the Idea of Universalism
8. Joakim Palme & Olli Kangas: Poverty and Income Distribution in the Nordic Countries
9. Anette Borchorst: Nordic Gender Equality: Policies, Discourses and Paradoxes
10. Anne Skevik Grdem and Aksel Hatland: Family and Working Life in the Nordic Countries
11. Siv Sandberg: Decentralized, Unitary Welfare State: The Role of Local Government in Denmark, Finland, Norway and Sweden
12. Karl H. Sivesind and Per Selle: Voluntary Organizations in the Nordic Countries
13. Christer Trnqvist: The Nordic Labour Market Model
Section 3: Challenges
14. Grethe Brochmann: Immigration and the Nordic welfare stateA Tense Companionship
15. Jon Kvist: Is the Nordic Welfare Model Viable? 21st Century Challenges to the Nordic Welfare Model in a European Context
16. Matti Alestalo, Sven E.O. Hort and Stein Kuhnle: The Nordic Mode: Conditions, Origins, Outcomes, Lessons
Section 4: Appendix
Tina Dreier: Basic social information on the Nordic countries and online resources