Why Swedes Trust the State and Scots Do Not
An Exploration of the Diverse Protestant Roots of Modern Welfare Systems
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4301285 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Ingela Naumann (0000-0001-7237-603X, University of Edinburgh, corresponding author), Ingela K Naumann, Lindsay Paterson (0000-0002-2745-3531, University of Edinburgh) |
| Year | 2020 |
| Volume | 33 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 473-488 |
| Publication date | 2020-12-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Historical Sociology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0952-1909 • E-ISSN: 1467-6443 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/johs.12299 |
| OpenAlex | W3112673928 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 44 |
This paper explores how the Protestant traditions of Calvinist Presbyterianism and Lutheranism have shaped church-state relations differently in Scotland and Sweden, resulting in different understandings of the role of the state and civil society in public welfare. It finds that high levels of public trust in the state's authority and state intervention in Sweden can be traced back to Lutheran doctrine and institutionally close links between the Swedish Church and the state, while in Scotland trusting independent civil society and its responsibility for welfare reflects the distance of the Presbyterian Scottish Kirk from the state both in theological and institutional terms
Civil society · Doctrine · Economics · Intervention (counseling · Political science · Protestantism · Public welfare · Scots · Sociology · State (computer science · Welfare · Welfare state · Law · Philosophy · Religion and Society Interactions · Religious Freedom and Discrimination · Social Policy and Reform Studies
Social policy and welfare state in Sweden
State Formation, Nation-Building, and Mass Politics in Europe
Devolution in the UK
The Disciplinary Revolution
Understanding the Mixed Economy of Welfare
The Foundations of the Welfare State
Varieties of Capitalism
Immigration Policy and the Scandinavian Welfare State 1945–2010
The Political Economy of European Welfare Capitalism
Social Capitalism
Trust and Public Policy
The 'Southern Model' of Welfare in Social Europe
New Citizens for a New Society
Religion and the Scottish Labour Movement c. 1900-39
Labour in Scotland during the Second World War
The Rise of “Cultural Religion” in European Christianity
Religion and social capital
Imagined communities
Church–state separation Swedish-style
Trust, Social Dilemmas and Collective Memories
Making and Breaking Social Capital
The State and Social Capital
Modernization in the Service of Religion
Consensus, Conflict, or Compromise? Church-State Relations in the Swedish "People's Home" During the 1920s and 1930s
Lutheranism and the Nordic Welfare States in Comparison
Why No Religious Politics? The Secularization of Poor Relief and Primary Education in Denmark and Sweden
The Religious Roots of Modern Poverty Policy
Predicting Cross-National Levels of Social Trust
The Three Worlds of Welfare Capitalism
Religion and Civic Culture
Nonbelievers in the Church
| Citation velocity | historical |
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| Highly cited | No |