The Nordic Welfare State in Finland

Kettunen, Pauli

doi:10.1080/034687501750303864

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“…De Wispelaere (, p. 21) considered the ‘willingness to contribute’ that is retained in the popular support for universalist social policies in the Nordic countries to be a factor that would probably reduce support for a BI. This expectation of everyone contributing to the welfare system has commonly been tied to fulfilling the moral duty of working, derived from the Protestant work ethic (Julkunen, ; Kettunen, ). In a similar vein, Johansson (), discussing the limits of social citizenship in the Nordic countries, argued that the strictly means‐ and needs‐tested types of last‐resort public financial support are to be regarded as a kind of paradoxical consequence of the Nordic‐type welfare system which rests on the assumption that everyone takes part in its financing through working.…”

Section: On Introducing a Basic Income Into The Welfare Systemmentioning

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The perceived legitimacy of a basic income among Finnish food aid recipients

2018

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Discussions on the pros and cons of a basic income (BI) have remained mainly at the ‘systemic level’. Based on survey and interview data, this study provides a ‘bottom‐up’ perspective on the legitimacy of the idea of a basic income among people queuing in breadlines in Helsinki in late 2016, who are assumed to be affected positively by this benefit. While general support for the idea is high, not everyone supports an unconditional BI. Despite the likely ‘objective interest’, a BI does not seem to be supported by food aid recipients any more than by the general population as measured by a previous study. Besides interests, normative beliefs and perceptions of deservingness seem of importance for legitimacy too, especially among those not supporting a BI. Doubts regarding a BI are to some extent connected to wishes to limit the social citizenship of some of the persons in the breadlines.

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Section: On Introducing a Basic Income Into The Welfare Systemmentioning

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The perceived legitimacy of a basic income among Finnish food aid recipients

2018

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“…Presently Finland seems to be departing from the 'traditional' Nordic model towards a hybrid one combining some Nordic features with neoliberal approaches (Aho and Lehtonen, 2002;Kettunen, 2001). The recession of the early 1990s caused a permanent restructuring of labour markets.…”

Section: Background On Finlandmentioning

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Achieving Flexibility through Insecurity: A Comparison of Work Environments in Fixed-term and Permanent Jobs in Finland and Canada

Saloniemi

Zeytinoglu

2007

European Journal of Industrial Relations

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In this comparative study of Finland and Canada, we use representative data to examine work environments in fixed-term and permanent jobs. Results are similar for all workers regardless of whether they are employed on fixed-term or permanent contracts. All workers feel their working hours are inflexible, but feel they have control over the tasks they perform and they have low risk of accident. The only difference is in the feelings of job insecurity: fixed-term workers, in both Finland and Canada, feel more insecure than those in permanent jobs. Our findings indicate that the global trends in flexibility and insecurity permeate all workers

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“…This can be contrasted with arguments posed by commentators in the US who have suggested that commercial benefits accrue mainly to private corporations (Anderlik and Rothstein, 2001). The blurring of the divide between public and private benefit and interests from biobanks is a common strategy that is employed in Finnish innovation policy narratives and follows an approach by which policies are depoliticised in Finland (Kettunen, 2001;Miettinen, 2002).…”

Section: Waste Discourse In Finlandmentioning

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From gift to waste: changing policies in biobanking practices

Tupasela

2011

Sci. and Pub. Pol.

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Traditionally the analysis of biomedical discourses surrounding biobanking has focused on the role of donation and gift giving as central aspects related to the procurement and use of tissue samples. More recently, studies have looked at the political underpinnings of building national collections of tissue samples. These national projects draw increasingly on a discourse of waste and efficiency as a way of legitimising activities. This paper draws attention to the way new arguments draw from environmental discourses in an attempt to reframe contentious ethical and legal issues in a more favourable light. Attempts to evoke notions of efficiency draw on a different set of persuasive techniques to foster support for large research and development ventures involving public-private partnerships, but at the same time limit public debate.

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The Nordic Welfare State in Finland

Cited by 93 publications

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The perceived legitimacy of a basic income among Finnish food aid recipients

The perceived legitimacy of a basic income among Finnish food aid recipients

Achieving Flexibility through Insecurity: A Comparison of Work Environments in Fixed-term and Permanent Jobs in Finland and Canada

From gift to waste: changing policies in biobanking practices

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