Welfare as a Means for Political Stability: A Law and Society Analysis

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Welfare as a means for political stability : a law and society analysisSvensson, Måns; Urinboyev, Rustam; Åström, Karsten General rights Copyright and moral rights for the publications made accessible in the public portal are retained by the authors and/or other copyright owners and it is a condition of accessing publications that users recognise and abide by the legal requirements associated with these rights.• Users may download and print one copy of any publication from the public portal for the purpose of private study or research.• You may not further distribute the material or use it for any profit-making activity or commercial gain • You may freely distribute the URL identifying the publication in the public portal Take down policy If you believe that this document breaches copyright please contact us providing details, and we will remove access to the work immediately and investigate your claim.

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“…However, Börjesson and Broady are also at pains to avoid clouding over important points of political consensus and deeper ideological agreement between the political parties. As is also suggested by Svensson, Urinboyev and Åström (2012), there was also a lot of agreement between the political parties regarding the development of an ostensibly open education system in Sweden in the 1940s. Sweden was a class-ridden society that had followed a very similar developmental trajectory to that of other Western countries and all parties were concerned about social stability and the possibility of using welfare reforms for addressing this (Nilsson Lindström and Beach, 2013;Svensson et al, 2012).…”

“…Sweden was a class-ridden society that had followed a very similar developmental trajectory to that of other Western countries and all parties were concerned about social stability and the possibility of using welfare reforms for addressing this (Nilsson Lindström and Beach, 2013;Svensson et al, 2012). Thus whilst the school and teacher education reforms between the end of WW2 and the 1990s seemed to be promoted by the Social Democrats as a part of a welfare state project that other parties opposed, this is a truth with some modification (Beach, 2018;Börjesson and Broady, 2016;Svensson et al, 2012).…”

“…The concept of one school for all and a common teacher education for teachers for this school emerged in the directives to the National School Commission (NSC) in 1946. The Social Democrats were beginning a long period of political hegemony at this time due mainly to two alliances (Svensson et al, 2012). One of them came from their revisionist opposition to ending capitalism, which allowed them to draw agreements from the capitalist employers association.…”

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“…Thus, the method is concerned with distinguishing between the 'essential' attributes that lie in the nature of the norms (together they form the general deinition of the sociolegal concept of norms) and other 'accidental' attributes that are characteristic within certain groups of norms (such as social and legal norms). The result of this model for creating a deinition -and the actual deinition itself -has been tested in a number of research projects within SoL at Lund University (for example, Hydén and Svensson, 2008;Svensson, 2008;Baier and Svensson, 2009;Svensson andLarsson, 2009 andLeo, 2010;Hydén, 2011;Urinboyev, 2011;Larsson, 2011a;Naujėkaitė, 2011;Svensson and Urinboyev, 2012;Svensson et al, 2013;Leo and Wickenberg, 2013).…”

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“…At the policy level, the exchange scenario can take the form of programmatic redistribution. Researchers on welfare regime have suggested that, by offsetting the effects of poverty and inequality in society, access to public services and welfare benefits becomes a major means for addressing political and social instability (see for example, Svensson et al 2012). Enacting welfare policies can improve the living standards of citizens and co-opt the political opposition and therefore decrease the incentives for contentious mobilization.…”