Nordic Social Attitudes in a European Perspective

Edited by Heikki Ervasti, Professor of Social Policy, University of Turku, Finland, Torben Fridberg, Senior Researcher, SFI – The Danish National Centre for Social Research, Denmark, Mikael Hjerm, Associate Professor of Sociology, Umeå University, Sweden and Kristen Ringdal, Professor of Sociology, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway

Providing highly rigorous and up-to-date data, with a wide coverage of topics, this book will be of great interest to academics and students in sociology, social policy and political science. It will also appeal to anyone interested in the Nordic countries in general.

‘For outsiders, the popularity and social sustainability of the extensive scope of Nordic welfare states, such as the strong role of the state and high levels of taxation, remains something of a mystery. Making use of recent international survey data, this important book goes some way towards solving this mystery. It underlines the remarkable success of Nordic welfare institutions which help to maintain not only low rates of poverty and inequality, but high levels of well-being, trust, social capital and
political participation.’
– Jochen Clasen, University of Edinburgh, UK

‘Nordic welfare states have long enjoyed a leadership position in the provision of social welfare. They are now caught up in the current of thorough-going reform that is sweeping across Europe. This book uses data from the European Social Survey in fresh and innovative ways to demonstrate the resilience of Nordic models and to show how political discourses are changing across a whole range of policy areas.’
英国肯特大学——彼得·泰勒-古庇