Histories of Human Rights in the Nordic Countries

Vik, Hanne Hagtvedt; Jensen, Steven L. B.; Lindkvist, Linde; Strang, Johan

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“…This was also the image that Scandinavia communicated to the world, notably through the Nordic espousal of languages of development, social justice, and, rather belatedly, human rights, as expressed by their engagement with international organisations such as the United Nations. 15 But it was also one that the world projected back onto Scandinavia. In a number of influential books, such as Marquis Childs' Sweden: The Third Way, initially published in 1936, and reinforced in its several subsequent editions, foreign scholars-often strongly sympathetic to the values of social democracyconstructed what has proved to be a remarkably durable vision of the Scandinavian states as the model which the other states of Western Europe and North America should seek to emulate.…”

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On fragile democracy: Contemporary and historical perspectives—Introduction

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2019

J Mod Eur Hist

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The concept of fragility provides an alternative means of approaching the history of democracy, which has often been seen as the ineluctable consequence of Europe’s social and political modernisation. This is especially so in Scandinavia, as well as in Finland, where the emergence of a particular Nordic model of democracy from the early decades of the twentieth century onwards has often been explained with reference to embedded traditions of local self-government and long-term trends towards social egalitarianism. In contrast, this article emphasises the tensions present within the practices and understandings of democracy in the principal states of Scandinavia during the twentieth century. In doing so, it provides an introduction to the articles that compose this Special Issue, as well as contributing to the wider literature on the fragility of present-day structures of democracy.

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Section: Scandinavian Fragilitymentioning

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On fragile democracy: Contemporary and historical perspectives—Introduction

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2019

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Histories of Human Rights in the Nordic Countries

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On fragile democracy: Contemporary and historical perspectives—Introduction

On fragile democracy: Contemporary and historical perspectives—Introduction

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