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Carly Elizabeth Schall - The Rise and Fall of the Miraculous Welfare Machine: Immigration and Social Democracy in Twentieth-Century Sweden - 9780801456671 - V9780801456671
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The Rise and Fall of the Miraculous Welfare Machine: Immigration and Social Democracy in Twentieth-Century Sweden

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Description for The Rise and Fall of the Miraculous Welfare Machine: Immigration and Social Democracy in Twentieth-Century Sweden Hardback. Num Pages: 258 pages, 6, 4 tables, 2 charts. BIC Classification: 1DNS; 3JJ; JFFN; JKS; JP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 23. Weight in Grams: 542.

Sweden is well known for the success of its welfare state. Many believe that success was made possible in part by the country's ethnic homogeneity and that the increased diversity of Sweden’s population is putting its welfare state at risk. Few, however, have suggested convincing mechanisms for explaining the precise relationship between relative ethnic homogeneity/heterogeneity and the welfare state. In this book Carly Elizabeth Schall acknowledges the important role of ethnic homogeneity in Sweden’s thriving welfare state, but she argues that it mattered primarily because political elites—especially social democrats—made it matter.Schall shows that diversity and the welfare state are related ... Read more

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Product Details

Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Cornell University Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
258
Place of Publication
Ithaca, United States
ISBN
9780801456671
SKU
V9780801456671
Shipping Time
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About Carly Elizabeth Schall
Carly Elizabeth Schall is Assistant Professor of Sociology at Indiana University–Purdue University Indianapolis.

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In The Rise and Fall of the Miraculous Welfare Machine, Carly Schall examines the cultural conditions that facilitated the rise and fall of the welfare state in Sweden. In the process, she provides the readers with a nuanced understanding of the complex relationship that ties together welfare state, race/ethnicity, immigration, and nation—one that goes well beyond the specific case of ... Read more

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