This volume examines the relationship between Nordic social policy and economic development from a comparative perspective. It identifies the driving forces behind the development of the Nordic welfare model and the problems and dilemmas the model is facing at present. The book also traces the link between democratization and social policy, drawing attention to the role of the state and non-governmental organizations. Social Policy and Economic Development in the Nordic Countries examines Nordic social policies on unemployment, social care, family, education and health care policies, and reviews future challenges of the welfare state in the information society.

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ANNELI ANTTONEN Professor of Social Policy, University of Tampere, Finland EERO CARROLL Research Fellow, Swedish Institute for Social Research, Stockholm University, Sweden GÖSTA ESPING-ANDERSON Professor of Sociology, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Spain TOMMY FERRARINI Assistant Professor and Deputy Director, Swedish Institute for Social Research, Stockholm University, Sweden KATJA FORSSÉN Professor of Social Work, University of Turku, Finland JOHAN FRITZELL Professor of Sociology, Centre for Health Equity Studies, Stockholm University/Karolinska Institutet, Sweden PEKKA HIMANEN Helsinki Institute for Information Technology, Finland JAAKKO KIANDER Research Director, Government Institute for Economic Research (VATT), Finland WALTER KORPI Professor of Social Policy, Swedish Institute for Social Research, Stockholm University, Sweden OLLE LUNDBERG Professor of Health Equity Studies and Co-Director, Centre for Health Equity Studies, Stockholm University/Karolinska Institutet, Sweden OLA SJÖBERG Assistant Professor, Swedish Institute for Social Research, Stockholm University, Sweden

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List of Tables List of Figures Notes on Contributors Preface Acknowledgements List of Abbreviations and Acronyms Social Policy and Economic Development in the Nordic Countries: An Introduction; O.Kangas & J.Palme Coming Late - Catching Up: The Formation of a Nordic Model; O.Kangas & J.Palme Voluntary State-Subsidized Social Insurance in the Advanced Industrialized World Since the 1890s: The Nordic Experience in Comparative Perspective; E.Carroll Empowering Social Policy: The Role of Social Care Services in Modern Welfare States; A.Anttonen Family Policy and Cross-National Patterns of Poverty; T.Ferrarini & K.Forssén Education and Equal Life-Chances: Investing in Children; G.Esping-Andersen Fighting Health and Income: One Important Road to Welfare and Development; J.Fritzell & O.Lundberg Does the Welfare State Harm Economic Growth? Sweden as a Strategic Test Case; W.Korpi Growth and Employment in the Nordic Welfare State in the 1990s: Crisis and Revival; J.Kiander How to Maintain a Big Tax Welfare State?; O.Sjöberg The Nordic Model of the Information Society: The Finnish Case; P.Himanen Does the Most Brilliant Future of the Nordic Model have to be in the Past?; O.Kangas & J.Palme Index