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Resilient privatization

The puzzling case of for-profit welfare providers in Sweden

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ID4237353
AuthorsSvallfor (0000-0001-7664-3705, Institute for Futures Studies Södertörn University, Stockholm, Sweden, corresponding author), Stefan Svallfor, Stefan Svallfors (Institute for Futures Studies Södertörn University, Stockholm, Sweden), Anna Tyllström (0000-0002-9088-7412, Institute for Futures Studies Södertörn University, Stockholm, Sweden)
Year2019
Volume17
Issue3
Pages745-765
Publication date2019-07-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueSocio-Economic Review (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1475-1461 • E-ISSN: 1475-147X
PublisherOxford University Press (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1093/ser/mwy005
OpenAlexW4231153534
LanguageEN
Citations received38
References cited32

In this article, we analyse the striking resilience of for-profit care and service provision in what has often been seen as the archetypical social democratic welfare state: Sweden. We focus on the strategic discursive activities of private companies and their business organizations as they try to influence perceptions, organize actors and facilitate communication to defend profit-making in the welfare sector in the face of increasing conflict and opposition. We argue that taking such organized action into account changes dominant perceptions about the characteristics of the Swedish political economy, and carries important lessons for analyses of changes in the organization of the welfare state in general

Business · Economics · Market economy · Microeconomics · Opposition (politics) · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Profit (economics · Public economics · Public relations · Service (business) · Service provider · Welfare · Welfare state · Community Development and Social Impact · Housing, Finance, and Neoliberalism · Labor Movements and Unions · Marketing · Social Policy and Reform Studies

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