Democracies in Flux - The Evolution of Social Capital in Contemporary Society
Putnam, Robert D. Professor of Public Policy, Harvard University
Print publication date: 2002 (this edition)
Published to Oxford Scholarship Online:
Print ISBN-13: 978-0-19-515089-6
doi:10.1093/0195150899.003.0008
 

7 Sweden: Social Capital in the Social Democratic State
Bo Rothstein
This chapter examines the breakdown of organised social capital in Sweden. The “Swedish model” which involved the close collaboration between major interest organisations and the state disappeared in the 1980s. It is argued that the demise of such organised social capital rendered the Swedish model obsolete and created problems for Swedish democracy.
Keywords: Sweden, organised social capital, democracy
doi:10.1093/0195150899.003.0008
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Introduction
1 Great Britain: The Role of Government and the Distribution of Social Capital
2 The United States: Bridging the Privileged and the Marginalized?
3 United States: From Membership to Advocacy
4 France: Old and New Civic and Social Ties in France
5 A Decline of Social Capital? The German Case
6 From Civil War to Civil Society: Social Capital in Spain from the 1930s to the 1990s
7 Sweden: Social Capital in the Social Democratic State
8 Australia: Making the Lucky Country
9 Broadening the Basis of Social Capital in Japan
Conclusion
Index
 
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