2008/01/01 by Thomas Ekman Jørgensen · 21 citations
Business, Management and Accounting · Social Sciences · #Competition (biology) #Democracy #Electoral Systems and Political Participation #European and International Law Studies #Government (linguistics) #Hegemony #Law #Modernity #Narrative #Political Influence and Corporate Strategies #Political economy #Political science #Politics #Social democracy #Sociology
paper · doi:10.1057/9780230611900_21
published in Palgrave Macmillan US eBooks, 239-252 (Palgrave Macmillan)
openalex publication_date 2008/01/01 · openalex created_date 2022/05/12 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/30
The three Scandinavian countries, Denmark, Norway, and Sweden, are often and for good reasons seen as a homogeneous entity. All three countries have a long history of social democratic political hegemony that has managed to spread its norms and ideas to larger parts of society. This is very much the case in Sweden, where virtually uninterrupted social democratic government since the 1930s has left its clear mark on the Swedish elites. In Denmark and Norway there has been a more balanced competition between the liberal and conservative parties and the social democrats. For the events around 1968, this social democratic hegemony is particularly important since the movements in Scandinavia are intimately connected to the hegemonic narrative of social democratic modernity. These keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves.