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Globalization and Social Policy Reform in Finland and Sweden

Globalization and Welfare series

Virpi Timonen, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland

What happens to extensive and generous welfare states when they are faced with serious economic crisis and the effects of globalization? This thorough analysis of the processes of social policy restructuring in two Nordic welfare states endeavours to answer this and other questions related to their survival in a world of intensifying global competition.

‘Timonen adheres to a style of writing that is organized, rational, and straightforward. This book offers new insight into the realm of welfare reform from which even scholars new to the field of comparative social welfare could derive great benefit.’
– Allison Kidder, New Global Development: Journal of International and Comparative Social Welfare

‘By documenting developments in [Finland and Sweden] in great detail, the author offers useful insights into social policy in the region and shows that the simplistic way many social policy writers have blamed globalization for welfare state retrenchment needs to be reconsidered and refined. The book’s impressive use of theory is also highly commended. Many readers will be impressed by the way the author uses theory to test popular statements about the changes in social policy that have taken place in recent times.’
– Social Development Issues