ABSTRACT

The Routledge Handbook of Scandinavian Politics is a comprehensive overview of Scandinavian politics provided by leading experts in the field and covering the polity, the politics and the policy of Scandinavia. Coherently structured with a multi-level thematic approach, it explains and details Scandinavian politics today through a series of cutting-edge chapters. It will be a key reference point both for advanced-level students developing knowledge about the subject, as well as researchers producing new material in the area and beyond. It brings geographical scope and depth, with comparative chapters contributed by experts across the region. Methodologically and theoretically pluralistic, the handbook is in itself a reflection of the field of political science in Scandinavia and the diversity of the issues covered in the volume.

The Routledge Handbook of Scandinavian Politics will be an essential reference for scholars, students, researchers and practitioners interested and working in the fields of Scandinavian politics, European politics, comparative politics and international relations.

chapter |9 pages

Introduction

Scandinavian politics between myth and reality

part |55 pages

Polity

chapter |12 pages

The modern Scandinavian welfare state

chapter |11 pages

The egalitarian paradise?

chapter |13 pages

Still the corporatist darlings? 1

chapter |17 pages

The green ‘heavyweights’

The climate policies of the Nordic countries

part |120 pages

Politics

chapter |11 pages

Goldilocks’ Frankenstein monster

The rise, political entrenchment and transformation of the Scandinavian welfare states

chapter |12 pages

Nordic administrative traditions

chapter |10 pages

Nordic voters and party systems

chapter |14 pages

Continuity and convergence

Populism in Scandinavia

part |126 pages

Policy

chapter |11 pages

The fisheries policy in the Nordic countries

From open access to rights-based management fisheries

chapter |14 pages

Scandinavian models of diplomacy

chapter |15 pages

Scandinavian defence and alliance policies

Different together

chapter |12 pages

Scandinavia and the European Union

Pragmatic functionalism reconsidered

chapter |13 pages

The United Nations and the Nordic four

Cautious sceptics, committed believers, cost–benefit calculators

chapter |12 pages

Scandinavian development policies

chapter |7 pages

Conclusions

Scandinavian polities, politics and policies reconsidered