Nordic Modernity
Origins, Trajectories and Prospects
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4481850 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Bo Stråth (Contemporary History at the European University Institute in Florence and History at Gothenburg University http://www.iue.it/Personal/Strath/Welcome.html, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2004 |
| Volume | 77 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 5-23 |
| Publication date | 2004-05-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Thesis Eleven (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0725-5136 • E-ISSN: 1461-7455 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/0725513604042657 |
| OpenAlex | W2084887839 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 24 |
| References cited | 3 |
Nordic modernity is often understood in terms of enlightened and progressive welfare politics and social equality. There is a more or less implicit connotation to images of a social democratic model. The aim of this article is twofold: to discuss the historical preconditions and construction of that model of progressive politics, and to discuss its relevance today and its future prospects. Concerning the first aim, the argument is that there is nothing historically predetermined of a progressive development path. Nordic modernity should not be understood as teleology or as given by a natural state of egalitarian peasant communities. Historically, all the Nordic societies except Iceland were under authoritarian or absolute rule. However, there were factors underpinning a more progressive and egalitarian development in the North, in particular the strength of the peasant freeholders and of the urban middle classes. The argument in this article is that these forces finally broke through in the 1930s as a response to the Great Depression. Everywhere in Norden redgreen Social Democratic-Farmers' Party reform coalitions emerged in attempts to cope with the economic crisis, and extreme political alternatives were marginalized. The Social Democrats were, with the exception of Iceland, the larger party in the coalitions. In that sense there is a Scandinavian Sonderweg
Authoritarianism · Communism · Democracy · Modernity · Peasant · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Socialism · Sociology · European and International Law Studies · Law
Embodied Landscape
Mediterraneo baltico’
From Administrative Infrastructure to Biomedical Resource
Múltiplas modernidades ou variedade da modernidade
Rights, Development and Critical Modernity
Morality and the Middle Class
The right to die
Imagined communities, social stratifications, and educational responses. Conditions of the possibility to talk about differentiation
Training cooperative citizens
Legal Liberation Through Relegation to the Home
Images of Sweden and the Nordic Countries
Nordic Nostalgia and Nordic Light
Scandinavians on the world stage
Branding Nordicity
Nation-State Science
The Norwegian country cabin and functionalism
"Examining "The Police
Towards ‘universal financialisation’ in Sweden
Knowledge and Precaution. On Organic Farmers Assessment of New Technology
(Social) Democracy in the Blood? Civic and Ethnic Idioms of Nation and the Consolidation of Swedish Social Democratic Power, 1928-1932
A solidarity paradox - welfare state data in global health data economy
Cultural Images of Labor Conflict and Coordination
Modernity and diversity
Multiple Modernities or Varieties of Modernity
| Unique citing works | 24 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1,2 |
| Citation span | 2006 - 2026 (21) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 20 |