Policy reform and the decline of corporatism in Sweden

Datos Bibliográficos

ID6408092
AutoresJohannes Lindvall (0000-0002-1765-9288, Moscow State University of Technologies and Management named after K.G. Razumovskiy, autor de correspondencia), Joakim Sebring
Año2005
Volumen28
Número5
Páginas1057-1074
Fecha de publicación2005-11-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessNo
TipoARTICLE
RevistaWest European Politics (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0140-2382 • E-ISSN: 1743-9655
EditorialInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/01402380500311814
OpenAlexW2052231327
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas60
Referencias citadas16

This article describes the development of corporatism in Sweden from the 1970s onwards. We demonstrate that the Swedish case differs a great deal from other small European countries, such as the Netherlands and Sweden's neighbour Denmark, where corporatism is alive and well and often credited with providing for economic success in recent years. We study corporatism indirectly rather than directly, in the sense that we start from public policy changes in labour market policy, pensions, and immigrant policy, and follow the policy-making chain backwards in order to identify the norms, institutions, and actors that have mattered for policy choices, and how they mattered. Our conclusion is that Sweden has not only experienced decorporatisation in terms of formal institutional changes, but also in terms of a decline in the norms regarding social partnership that previously guided policy making and the interaction of interest organisations

Corporatism · Economics · General partnership · Market economy · Order (exchange · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Social partners · Social Partnership · European Union Policy and Governance · Labor Movements and Unions · Law · Social Policy and Reform Studies