Images of Sweden II
Inbunden bok. Axess Publishing AB. 2014. 127 sidor.
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Baksidestext; For many people of different political persuasions, in different parts of the developed world, Sweden has stood as a beacon of political sanity and well-organized welfare arrangements. Its educational and health systems are perceived as well maintained. Sweden is both a globalized thriving market economy, and its welfare state. Furthermore Sweden’s role as an ethical diplomat affords the country prodigious international influence. As a former empire, it has cleverly found a role for itself as an international mediator in all manner of diplomatic disputes.
How did this situation arise? How did Sweden become a model for countries whose population is so different and so varied? Has it been useful and pertinent? And is the model described above so very model? Is Sweden not quite what it appears in the imagination of these new utopians? Is there a gap between perception and reality? Is there a yearning of a different political order? What are the taboos of Swedish society? And where is Sweden headed? Is there perhaps even a new Sweden in the making?
The texts stem from the seminar Images of Sweden, arranged by the Axel and Margaret Ax:son Johnson Foundation for public benefit.
Förlagsfakta
- ISBN
- 9789189672550
- Titel
- Images of Sweden II
- Författare
- Almqvist, Kurt - Linklater, Alexander - Axel och Margaret Ax:son Johnsons stiftelse för allmännyttiga ändamål
- Förlag
- Axess Publishing AB
- Utgivningsår
- 2014
- Omfång
- 127 sidor
- Bandtyp
- Inbunden
- Mått
- 165 x 246 mm Ryggbredd 11 mm
- Vikt
- 486 g
- Språk
- English
- Baksidestext
- For many people of very different political persuasions, Sweden has stood as a beacon of political sanity and well-organised welfare arrangements. After its own debt crisis of the early 1990s, Sweden’s restructured economy has stood above the fray of the European financial crisis and served as source of guidance to many countries seeking a way out. Its welfare system combines with a thriving globalised marketplace.
But how is it that Sweden continues to be cited as a model for those on both the right and left of the political spectrum? What is the meaning of the darkness and violence of Swedish crime fiction? Is the ”New Swedish Model” really everything its advocates claim?
The international contributors to this volume have been assembled by the Axel and Margaret Ax:son Johnson Foundation to follow up themes and questions first raised by the 2011 anthology, Images of Sweden.
Contributors: Rebecca Allen, Melissa Benn, Andrew Brown, Peje Emilsson, BJ Epstein, Thomas Gür, Dick Harrison, PJ Anders Linder, Fraser Nelson, Per Schlingmann, Michael Sohlman, Polly Toynbee, Lars Trägårdh.
