Describing the theoretical underpinnings of Sweden's social democratic society and the historical factors which influenced the development of the Swedish system, this study portrays social democracy as a highly successful, functioning social system whose principles of economic well-being, fair remuneration for work, social solidarity, democracy, participation, access to information, and respect for the environment correspond to the way its members choose to act and live.

Sweden : Social Democracy in Practice

Politics & Social Sciences

Milner, Henry

Politics & Government

Oxford University Press

Sweden: Social Democracy in Practice

Business & Money

Economics

Social Democracy and Rational Choice

MILNER, H,: SOCIAL DEMOCRACY AND RATIONAL CHOICE, THE SCANDINAVIAN EXPERIENCE AND BEYOND, LONDON, 1994, xii 304 p, figuras,Encuadernacion original, Nuevo,

Social Sciences

Routledge

In the 1950s, GÃ¶sta Rehn, one of the fathers of the ’Swedish Model’ and the most important economic thinkers of the contemporary Scandinavian labour movement, together with Rudolf Meidner, developed one of the most influential economic models of the twentieth century - the ’Rehn Model’. The first single volume to provide a comprehensive introduction to the Rehn Model, its theory, applications and considerable impact in countries such as Sweden, The Netherlands, Austria, Canada and the UK, this text also shows how it can still make a useful contribution to the formulation of economic policy today. A full, annotated bibliography of the articles and other written contributions of GÃ¶sta Rehn makes this text an essential read for all those interested in the Swedish Model, labour market economics, economic policy and the ideas of an economist who guided a generation.

Gösta Rehn, the Swedish Model and Labour Market Policies: International and National Perspectives

Wadensjö, Eskil

The Long Road to Reform: Restructuring Public Education in Quebec

The Long Road to Reform analyses attempts to change the sectarian nature of schooling in Quebec, focusing on the fate of the radical proposals advanced by the Parti québécois in their White Paper of June 1982. The then minister of education, Camille Laurin, proposed to reform the existing system of "confessional" school boards, with its separate networks of schools for Catholics and Protestants, replacing it with school boards divided along regional lines. Under this plan, individual schools would have had considerable organizational autonomy through councils composed of parent and teacher representatives. Widespread opposition to this proposal led to its eventual modification and to the substitution of a much scaled-down version of thse reforms, Bill 3, which was declared unconstitutional by the Superior Court of Quebec in May 1985. In reviewing this effort at reform, Henry Milner describes the political and historical context in which the Quebec educational system developed and show how existing forces preventsed its modification. Milner shows that, when challenged, vested interests were still capable of erecting formidable obstacles to change and that churches were not the only institutions committed maintaining the status quo. His study not only examines why this attempt to restructure public education in Quebec failed, but also provides a fascinating picture of Quebec's turbulent and often contradictory political evolution during this period.

Education & Teaching

Schools & Teaching

John Deutsch Institute for the Study of

History

Americas

McGill-Queen's University Press

Some engage in politics; others observe it, but the author of this political memoir is among the few that have had the chance to do both. In these pages, Henry Milner shares his experiences as a student and community activist, an anglophone insider and strategist in the Parti Québécois, and a close observer over several decades of social democracy in practice in Scandinavia and beyond.\nMilner was born in a bunker in American occupied Germany. His parents, who had survived the war in the Soviet Union, moved the family to Canada, where they settled in Montreal. Earning a BA from McGill and his MA and PhD at Carleton, he spent his teaching career first at Vanier College and then based at the University of Montreal. He has also taught extensively in Europe, North America, Australia and New Zealand.\nParticipant/Observer is Milner's eleventh book. His writings, notably in Inroads, the Canadian Journal of Opinion, which he and John Richards founded in 1991, have led to opportunities to teach and conduct research in Scandinavia, Europe, Australia and New Zealand. Findings from these experiences have found their way into public policy discussion in Canada through the media and public forums. Milner's recent focus has been on civic literacy, on the democratic institutions that underly social and economic progress, working closely with the movements seeking to reform the voting system in Canada and a number of provinces.\nHe and his wife, Frances Boylston, divide their time between Montreal and the Dominican Republic, where they are closely involved with the Meeting Place, a not-for-profit International Resource Centre they founded to help "snowbirds" to get to know the country and to provide locals and Haitian migrants with English-language and other resources to be better equipped for employment in a tourism-oriented economy.\nParticipant/Observer is a political autobiography of a generation, one that reached maturity in the 1960s and 1970s, told through one person's story. In concluding, Milner holds out hope that this account of his generations' successes-and failures-can be of use to current generations as they face the threat posed by populist and authoritarian forces, most dramatically to the capacity of contemporary democracies to meet the challenge of climate change.

Participant/Observer: An Unconventional Life in Politics and Academia

Biographies & Memoirs

Professionals & Academics

FriesenPress

Is it possible in this post-socialist world, for equity and efficiency to be reconciled ? Or is a productive welfare state a contradication in terms ? This book addresses these questions in theory and in practice, using the Nordic countries as its case study. Social Democracy and Rational Choice will appeal to readers interested in comparative institutional and policy analysis, and in particular to those concerned with the future of the welfare state and the latest developments in the Nordic countries.

Scholars, pundits, and politicians, both in the US and abroad, have warned of a decline in citizen involvement in public life. Many (following the lead of Robert Putnam's Bowling Alone) have focused on the "social capital" allegedly created by the participation of citizens in a wide range of voluntary associations. But Henry Milner, a noted scholar of comparative politics, argues that a society's level of civic literacy -- the knowledge and capacity of citizens to make sense of their political world -- offers a better basis for understanding the civil societies of disparate cultures, and comparing the effectiveness of their democratic institutions.In a clear, accessible style, Milner marshals a wealth of data from the US, Canada, western Europe, Australia, and New Zealand to show how civic literacy underpins effective democracies. Masterfully weaving together philosophical debates over citizenship and community with the empirical findings of social scientists and his own first-hand experience of a variety of cultures, Milner shows that a population's degree of civic literacy is the single best predictor of its level of political participation. Drawing on the experience of the high civic literacy societies of Northern Europe, he sets out a series of policies -- policies linked to the role of the media, to adult and civic education, and to the informativeness of partisan political debate -- that lay the groundwork for the exercise of the responsibilities of citizenship in the 21st century.

Civic Literacy: How Informed Citizens Make Democracy Work (Civil Society Series)

Tufts Univ

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