Abstract
The Nordic countries developed perhaps the Western world’s most comprehensive welfare states in the decades following World War II. During long periods of Social Democratic political hegemony, Sweden, Denmark and Norway created wide-ranging public sector systems for the delivery of human and social services. Finland, governed by a centre-left coalition of agrarian (now centre) and Social Democratic parties, developed its own equally comprehensive mix of ‘municipal socialism’ with nationally mandated welfare programmes.
* Support for this study was provided by a research fellowship from the German Marshall Fund of the United States, the Swedish Center for Working Life in Stockholm, and the University of Massachusetts at Amherst.
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Saltman, R.B. (1991). Nordic Health Policy in the 1980s. In: Altenstetter, C., Haywood, S.C. (eds) Comparative Health Policy and the New Right. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-11777-2_5
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