Gregg M Olsen
Biographic Data
| ID | 391094 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Gregg M Olsen |
| GIVEN NAMES | Gregg M |
| FAMILY NAME | Olsen |
| SIGNATURE | OLSEN G M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Manitoba |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 42 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 14 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1989 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Bringing in the third pillar: Protective legislation and the welfare state
Welfare state research over the past five decades has largely focused on two broad social policy pillars: (1) arrays of income programmes, such as social assistance, unemployment insurance, family allowances and pensions, and (2) a range of social services, including childcare, healthcare, social housing and education. However, an important cluster of policy measures, constituting a third policy pillar, has been largely neglected in the cross-nat…
Protective legislation: The “third pillar” of the welfare state
Welfare states are built upon three central social policy pillars: (1) income programs , including an assortment of income maintenance and security benefits; (2) social services , comprising a diverse constellation of provisions, which furnish care such as health care and education, and “in kind” benefits; and (3) protective legislation , encompassing a dense web of proactive and preventative laws, rights, and entitlements, such as health and saf…
Labour Market Policy in the United States, Canada and Sweden: Addressing the Issue of Convergence
‘Convergence theorists’ suggest that domestic and/or global challenges and pressures are rendering welfare states broadly similar across national boundaries. ‘Resilience theorists’, in contrast, argue that a range of socio‐political factors have allowed states to respond differentially to these pressures and maintain their distinct national social policy approaches. However, both research streams have addressed the ‘welfare state’ writ large in a…
Toward Global Welfare State Convergence: Family Policy and Health Care in Sweden, Canada and the United States
Accounts of the welfare state and the dynamics governing its development have been pivotal and highly contentious in the social policy literature over the past few decades. Since the 1980s, research has suggested that, as a result of domestic pressures and strains and/or the impact of globalization, welfare states were declining in tandem. However, most of these studies were quantitativefocusing upon 18 or more advanced capitalist nations and, in…
The World's Strongest Trade Unions: The Scandinavian Labor Movement
The Unions Collective Bargaining Trade Union Structure Trade Union Policies The Unions and the Special Democrats Women in the Trade Unions White Collar Unionism Inter-Federation Relationships Union Memberships Benefits How Members View Their Unions Why Scandinavian Unionism has Prospered Epilogue Bibliography Index
Half Empty or Half Full: The Swedish Welfare State in Transition
Peu d'États-providence dans le monde occidental n'ont pas fait l'expérience de compressions budgétaires et de restructurations au cours des dix dernières années, même si l'ampleur et l'intensité de ces ajustements ont varié considérablement selon les pays. Toutefois, les comptes rendus sur la restructuration de l'État-providence en Suède - longtemps considéré comme un modèle du genre - ont été quelque peu contradictoires. En prenant comme exemple…
Half Empty or Half Full: The Swedish Welfare State in Transition
Peu d'États‐providence dans le monde occidental n'ont pas fait l'expérience de compressions budgétaires et de restructurations au cours des dix dernières années, même si l'ampleur et l'intensité de ces ajustements ont varié considérablement selon les pays. Toutefois, les comptes rendus sur la restructuration de l'État‐providence en Suède ‐ longtemps considéré comme un modèle du genre ‐ ont été quelque peu contradictoires. En prenant comme exemple…
Locating the Canadian Welfare State: Family Policy and Health Care in Canada, Sweden, and the United States
La nature de l'Etat-providence canadien est tres contestee : il est considere par certains comme appartenant a la meme categorie d'Etat-providence retardataire que les Etats-Unis, alors que d'autres l'estiment relativement avance. Ces jugements dependent pour une bonne part des modeles utilises par les chercheurs. Le modele dominant est l'approche des « welfare worlds », selon laquelle les Etats-providence canadien et americain sont liberaux. Jus…
Power Resource Theory and the Welfare State: A Critical Approach
This collection of essays looks at power resources theory (PRT), a groundbreaking approach to political theory that builds upon the existing strengths of Marxist theorizing while addressing its weaknesses.
Parenting and public policy: Contextualizing the Swedish corporal punishment ban
On 1 July 1979, a law went into effect in Sweden that outlawed all forms of physical punishment of children, including that administered by parents. While the history of this law has been fully described elsewhere, scant attention has been paid to the political and social contexts in which the law emerged and found public support. It is argued in the present paper that the abolition of corporal punishment in Sweden (1) took place within a broader…
Re-Modeling Sweden: The Rise and Demise of the Compromise in a Global Economy
Journal Article Re-Modeling Sweden: The Rise and Demise of the Compromise in a Global Economy Get access Gregg M. Olsen Gregg M. Olsen University of Manitoba Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Google Scholar Social Problems, Volume 43, Issue 1, 1 February 1996, Pages 1–20, https://doi.org/10.2307/3096891 Published: 31 July 2014
The Struggle for Economic Democracy in Sweden
This book seeks to account for the fate of the 'Meidner Plan' - a Swedish innovative form of social organization and collective economic ownership. The author focuses on the changing balance of power between capital and labour
Locating the Canadian Welfare State: Family Policy and Health Care in Canada, Sweden, and the United States
Gregg M. Olsen, Locating the Canadian Welfare State: Family Policy and Health Care in Canada, Sweden, and the United States, The Canadian Journal of Sociology / Cahiers canadiens de sociologie, Vol. 19, No. 1 (Winter, 1994), pp. 1-20
Labour Mobilization and the Strength of Capital: The Rise and Stall of Economic Democracy in Sweden
By focusing on variables which measure the strength of the working class, power resource theories represent a significant advance over other neo-Marxist accounts of the determinants of social and economic state policies insofar as they can provide an explanation for significant variation among advanced capitalist nations
Industrial Change and Labour Adjustment in Sweden and Canada
Parenting and public policy: Contextualizing the Swedish corporal punishment ban
On 1 July 1979, a law went into effect in Sweden that outlawed all forms of physical punishment of children, including that administered by parents. While the history of this law has been fully described elsewhere, scant attention has been paid to the political and social contexts in which the law emerged and found public support. It is argued in the present paper that the abolition of corporal punishment in Sweden (1) took place within a broader…
Labour Mobilization and the Strength of Capital: The Rise and Stall of Economic Democracy in Sweden
By focusing on variables which measure the strength of the working class, power resource theories represent a significant advance over other neo-Marxist accounts of the determinants of social and economic state policies insofar as they can provide an explanation for significant variation among advanced capitalist nations
Locating the Canadian Welfare State: Family Policy and Health Care in Canada, Sweden, and the United States
Gregg M. Olsen, Locating the Canadian Welfare State: Family Policy and Health Care in Canada, Sweden, and the United States, The Canadian Journal of Sociology / Cahiers canadiens de sociologie, Vol. 19, No. 1 (Winter, 1994), pp. 1-20
Toward Global Welfare State Convergence: Family Policy and Health Care in Sweden, Canada and the United States
Accounts of the welfare state and the dynamics governing its development have been pivotal and highly contentious in the social policy literature over the past few decades. Since the 1980s, research has suggested that, as a result of domestic pressures and strains and/or the impact of globalization, welfare states were declining in tandem. However, most of these studies were quantitativefocusing upon 18 or more advanced capitalist nations and, in…
Labour Market Policy in the United States, Canada and Sweden: Addressing the Issue of Convergence
‘Convergence theorists’ suggest that domestic and/or global challenges and pressures are rendering welfare states broadly similar across national boundaries. ‘Resilience theorists’, in contrast, argue that a range of socio‐political factors have allowed states to respond differentially to these pressures and maintain their distinct national social policy approaches. However, both research streams have addressed the ‘welfare state’ writ large in a…
Half Empty or Half Full: The Swedish Welfare State in Transition
Peu d'États-providence dans le monde occidental n'ont pas fait l'expérience de compressions budgétaires et de restructurations au cours des dix dernières années, même si l'ampleur et l'intensité de ces ajustements ont varié considérablement selon les pays. Toutefois, les comptes rendus sur la restructuration de l'État-providence en Suède - longtemps considéré comme un modèle du genre - ont été quelque peu contradictoires. En prenant comme exemple…
Re-Modeling Sweden: The Rise and Demise of the Compromise in a Global Economy
Journal Article Re-Modeling Sweden: The Rise and Demise of the Compromise in a Global Economy Get access Gregg M. Olsen Gregg M. Olsen University of Manitoba Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Google Scholar Social Problems, Volume 43, Issue 1, 1 February 1996, Pages 1–20, https://doi.org/10.2307/3096891 Published: 31 July 2014
Industrial Change and Labour Adjustment in Sweden and Canada
Protective legislation: The “third pillar” of the welfare state
Welfare states are built upon three central social policy pillars: (1) income programs , including an assortment of income maintenance and security benefits; (2) social services , comprising a diverse constellation of provisions, which furnish care such as health care and education, and “in kind” benefits; and (3) protective legislation , encompassing a dense web of proactive and preventative laws, rights, and entitlements, such as health and saf…
Half Empty or Half Full: The Swedish Welfare State in Transition
Peu d'États‐providence dans le monde occidental n'ont pas fait l'expérience de compressions budgétaires et de restructurations au cours des dix dernières années, même si l'ampleur et l'intensité de ces ajustements ont varié considérablement selon les pays. Toutefois, les comptes rendus sur la restructuration de l'État‐providence en Suède ‐ longtemps considéré comme un modèle du genre ‐ ont été quelque peu contradictoires. En prenant comme exemple…
Industrial Change and Labour Adjustment in Sweden and Canada
Labour Mobilization and the Strength of Capital: The Rise and Stall of Economic Democracy in Sweden
By focusing on variables which measure the strength of the working class, power resource theories represent a significant advance over other neo-Marxist accounts of the determinants of social and economic state policies insofar as they can provide an explanation for significant variation among advanced capitalist nations
The Struggle for Economic Democracy in Sweden
This book seeks to account for the fate of the 'Meidner Plan' - a Swedish innovative form of social organization and collective economic ownership. The author focuses on the changing balance of power between capital and labour
Locating the Canadian Welfare State: Family Policy and Health Care in Canada, Sweden, and the United States
Gregg M. Olsen, Locating the Canadian Welfare State: Family Policy and Health Care in Canada, Sweden, and the United States, The Canadian Journal of Sociology / Cahiers canadiens de sociologie, Vol. 19, No. 1 (Winter, 1994), pp. 1-20
Re-Modeling Sweden: The Rise and Demise of the Compromise in a Global Economy
Journal Article Re-Modeling Sweden: The Rise and Demise of the Compromise in a Global Economy Get access Gregg M. Olsen Gregg M. Olsen University of Manitoba Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Google Scholar Social Problems, Volume 43, Issue 1, 1 February 1996, Pages 1–20, https://doi.org/10.2307/3096891 Published: 31 July 2014
Parenting and public policy: Contextualizing the Swedish corporal punishment ban
On 1 July 1979, a law went into effect in Sweden that outlawed all forms of physical punishment of children, including that administered by parents. While the history of this law has been fully described elsewhere, scant attention has been paid to the political and social contexts in which the law emerged and found public support. It is argued in the present paper that the abolition of corporal punishment in Sweden (1) took place within a broader…
Locating the Canadian Welfare State: Family Policy and Health Care in Canada, Sweden, and the United States
La nature de l'Etat-providence canadien est tres contestee : il est considere par certains comme appartenant a la meme categorie d'Etat-providence retardataire que les Etats-Unis, alors que d'autres l'estiment relativement avance. Ces jugements dependent pour une bonne part des modeles utilises par les chercheurs. Le modele dominant est l'approche des « welfare worlds », selon laquelle les Etats-providence canadien et americain sont liberaux. Jus…
Power Resource Theory and the Welfare State: A Critical Approach
This collection of essays looks at power resources theory (PRT), a groundbreaking approach to political theory that builds upon the existing strengths of Marxist theorizing while addressing its weaknesses.
Half Empty or Half Full: The Swedish Welfare State in Transition
Peu d'États-providence dans le monde occidental n'ont pas fait l'expérience de compressions budgétaires et de restructurations au cours des dix dernières années, même si l'ampleur et l'intensité de ces ajustements ont varié considérablement selon les pays. Toutefois, les comptes rendus sur la restructuration de l'État-providence en Suède - longtemps considéré comme un modèle du genre - ont été quelque peu contradictoires. En prenant comme exemple…
Half Empty or Half Full: The Swedish Welfare State in Transition
Peu d'États‐providence dans le monde occidental n'ont pas fait l'expérience de compressions budgétaires et de restructurations au cours des dix dernières années, même si l'ampleur et l'intensité de ces ajustements ont varié considérablement selon les pays. Toutefois, les comptes rendus sur la restructuration de l'État‐providence en Suède ‐ longtemps considéré comme un modèle du genre ‐ ont été quelque peu contradictoires. En prenant comme exemple…
The World's Strongest Trade Unions: The Scandinavian Labor Movement
The Unions Collective Bargaining Trade Union Structure Trade Union Policies The Unions and the Special Democrats Women in the Trade Unions White Collar Unionism Inter-Federation Relationships Union Memberships Benefits How Members View Their Unions Why Scandinavian Unionism has Prospered Epilogue Bibliography Index
Toward Global Welfare State Convergence: Family Policy and Health Care in Sweden, Canada and the United States
Accounts of the welfare state and the dynamics governing its development have been pivotal and highly contentious in the social policy literature over the past few decades. Since the 1980s, research has suggested that, as a result of domestic pressures and strains and/or the impact of globalization, welfare states were declining in tandem. However, most of these studies were quantitativefocusing upon 18 or more advanced capitalist nations and, in…
Labour Market Policy in the United States, Canada and Sweden: Addressing the Issue of Convergence
‘Convergence theorists’ suggest that domestic and/or global challenges and pressures are rendering welfare states broadly similar across national boundaries. ‘Resilience theorists’, in contrast, argue that a range of socio‐political factors have allowed states to respond differentially to these pressures and maintain their distinct national social policy approaches. However, both research streams have addressed the ‘welfare state’ writ large in a…
Protective legislation: The “third pillar” of the welfare state
Welfare states are built upon three central social policy pillars: (1) income programs , including an assortment of income maintenance and security benefits; (2) social services , comprising a diverse constellation of provisions, which furnish care such as health care and education, and “in kind” benefits; and (3) protective legislation , encompassing a dense web of proactive and preventative laws, rights, and entitlements, such as health and saf…
Bringing in the third pillar: Protective legislation and the welfare state
Welfare state research over the past five decades has largely focused on two broad social policy pillars: (1) arrays of income programmes, such as social assistance, unemployment insurance, family allowances and pensions, and (2) a range of social services, including childcare, healthcare, social housing and education. However, an important cluster of policy measures, constituting a third policy pillar, has been largely neglected in the cross-nat…
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