Hyvinvointivaltio - kansallinen projekti?

Abstrakti

The welfare state is talked about much more in today’s Finland than when it was built. It is described as a national achievement threatened either by globalization and neoliberalism or by an ageing population and government indebtedness. In fact, even in the Nordic countries, the welfare states were not born as the result of clear-cut national project plans, but as the combined result of conflicting interests and knowledge-based planning. Institutions of national compromise and solidarity emerged in societies that were highly dependent on exports and world markets and vulnerable to global economic cycles and crises, and in a world of struggling societal systems. Global economic competition and threats to security and living conditions have made it topical to problematize the democratic nationalism inherent in the Nordic-type welfare state.