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| Acknowledgments | |
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| Introduction | |
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| The Many Faces of Modernization | |
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| The Scandinavian Solution | |
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| Three Phases | |
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| National Characteristics | |
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| Overview of the Book | |
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| Dreaming the Land of the Future | |
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| Norsk Hydro | |
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| Science and Modernization | |
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| Industrialization, a Natural Process for Sweden | |
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| Norway Follows Hesitantly | |
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| Emigration and Industrialization | |
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| The Norrland Debate | |
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| The Norwegian Concession Laws | |
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| Electricity, the Basis for Technological Modernization | |
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| War and Structural Problems | |
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| Thrust for Socialization | |
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| Consolidation of Two Different Structures | |
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| Rationalization | |
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| Technocracy | |
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| Dreaming the Land of die Future | |
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| National Integration and Democracy | |
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| The Question of Political Democracy in the Period around 1905 | |
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| Mobilizing the Public | |
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| Training for Democracy | |
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| Toward an Integrated School System in Norway | |
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| Contrasting the Two Countries | |
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| Karl Staaff and the Question of Suffrage in Sweden | |
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| Arvid Lindman and the Question of Universal Suffrage | |
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| The Difficult Road to Parliamentarianism | |
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| Gunnar Knudsen and State Capitalism | |
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| Currents of Antiparliamentarianism | |
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| The Farmers and Modernization | |
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| Farmers on the Offensive: Norway | |
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| Farmers on the Offensive: Sweden | |
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| Crisis Settlement in Both Countries | |
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| Women and Civil and Political Rights | |
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| The Integration of Minorities: The Sami | |
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| The Integration of Minorities: Refugees from Germany | |
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| National Integration and Democracy | |
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| Assistance for Self-Help | |
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| The Conceptual Basis for Social Policy | |
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| A Great Preventive Project | |
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| Health Insurance | |
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| National Pension Plans | |
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| Unemployment Insurance | |
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| Population Crisis? | |
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| The Politics of Sterilization | |
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| Assistance for Self-Help | |
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| Revolution or Reform | |
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| The Last Great Popular Movement | |
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| Working-Class Culture | |
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| Marxist Rhetoric and Reformist Practice | |
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| An Indistinct Policy | |
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| From One's Own Home to the People's Home: The Labor Movement and the Land Question | |
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| Hjalmar Branting | |
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| The Big Strike of 1909 | |
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| The Party Is Split | |
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| Martin Tranm�l | |
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| Worker Scandinavianism | |
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| How Radical? | |
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| �A Peculiar Legalization Activity� | |
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| The Level of Conflict Escalates | |
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| The Solidarity Game Is Established | |
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| Per Albin Hansson and the �Peoples Home� | |
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| Johan Nygaardsvold and the People's Party | |
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| The Expansionism of the Crisis Policy as Ideology | |
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| Revolution or Reform | |
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| Distance and Proximity | |
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| Distance | |
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| Proximity | |
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| World War I | |
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| An Expanded Home Market? | |
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| A Nordic Defense Alliance? | |
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| 1940-1970: The Golden Age of Social Democracy | |
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| Cooperation in a Menacing World | |
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| Not the Same War | |
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| The Cold War-Still Not the Same War? | |
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| The Internal Danger and Surveillance | |
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| A New Drive for a Nordic Customs Union | |
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| SAS: A Success Story | |
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| Despite Everything, a Flourishing Collaboration | |
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| Cooperation in a Menacing World | |
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| �The Most Dynamic Force for Social Development� | |
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| Class Society in Transformation I | |
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| Class Society in Transformation II | |
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| �The Most Dynamic Force for Social Development� | |
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| The Vision of the Atomic Age | |
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| Sweden: A Winner Nation | |
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| The Wallenberg System | |
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| Swedish Labor Market Policy | |
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| The Norwegian State and the Labor Market | |
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| Focusing on Natural Conditions | |
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| To �Play Wallenberg� in Norway | |
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| An Attempt to Create a Norwegian Knowledge Industry | |
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| Successful Industrial Policy? | |
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| The Social Democratic Urban Landscape | |
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| The Suburban Towns | |
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| Who Can Save the City? | |
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| The Triumph of Reason | |
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| The Crowning Glory | |
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| Technocracy and the Welfare State | |
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| Children and the Family | |
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| The Radicalism of the Myrdals | |
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| The Era of the Nuclear Family | |
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| The Housewife Contract under Pressure | |
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| The Struggle over the Compulsory General Supplementary Pension (ATP) | |
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| Agreement on Social Security | |
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| Why Standard Security? | |
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| The �Evangian� Health Policy | |
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| Swedish Health Policy | |
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| Good Family Housing | |
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| Social Democracy's Happy Moment | |
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| What Kind of People Do We Need? | |
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| Sweden and Norway, One School-Nation | |
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| A Break with the Past? | |
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| What Kind of Equality? | |
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| Integration and Normality | |
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| Several Dilemmas under the Surface | |
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| An Unsuccessful Integration Drive | |
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| Marginalized Universities | |
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| Swedish University Reform | |
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| Norwegian University Reform | |
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| The Social Democratic People's Church | |
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| Church and Morals | |
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| Which Is More Important-Health or Salvation? | |
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| What Kind of Human Being? | |
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| Capitalism, Socialism, and Democracy | |
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| Tage Erlander and Einar Gerhardsen | |
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| The Struggle over the Planned Economy in Sweden | |
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| The Struggle over the Planned Economy in Norway | |
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| A Social Democratic Constitution | |
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| Corporatism and Economic Democracy | |
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| The New Administrative Corporatism | |
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| How Democratic? | |
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| The Double Strategy of Business and Industry | |
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| An Ideological Counterthrust | |
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| Social Democracy as a Consumer Society | |
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| Taxation Socialism | |
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| Capitalism without Capitalists? | |
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| Credit Socialism or Indicative Planning? | |
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| An Order in Its Own Right | |
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| 1970-2000: A Richer Reality | |
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| A Difficult Modernity | |
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| A Decade of Conflict | |
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| The Social Democrats Reply | |
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| The Risk Society | |
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| Sweden and Nuclear Power | |
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| Norway and Natural Gas Energy | |
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| The Nordic Energy Market | |
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| Norway Becomes an Oil Nation | |
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| Heavy-Handed Discrimination | |
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| Sweden Loses Its Leading Position | |
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| New Policy: A Turnabout? | |
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| Successful Policy? | |
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| A Difficult Modernity | |
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| What Happened to Economic Democracy? | |
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| Corporatism under Pressure | |
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| Nevertheless, a Change of Model? | |
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| Industrial Democracy | |
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| Self-determination | |
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| Wage Earner Funds-a Radical Move | |
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| Weakened Administrative Corporatism | |
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| Labor Power for a Better Competitive Edge | |
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| Social Democracy in a Globalized Economy | |
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| A Weak Milieu of Private Ownership | |
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| State Ownership | |
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| An Ambiguous Development | |
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| From Equality to Freedom | |
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| The Welfare State under Pressure | |
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| The Changing Character of Social Policy | |
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| The Hunt for the Lost Sense of Community | |
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| The Jewel Is Removed from the Crown | |
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| Does Norway Follow Suit? | |
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| From an Emigration Society to an Immigration Society | |
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| The Establishment of an Immigration Policy | |
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| A Political Minefield | |
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| The Policy Is Revised | |
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| Toward the Two-Income Family | |
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| The Great Dispute over the Cash Benefit Plan | |
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| Gender Equality Lite | |
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| A School for the Weakest | |
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| Gudmund Hernes-a Parenthesis | |
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| Toward the Dissolution of the Comprehensive School | |
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| The Universities and Market Logic | |
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| From Equality to Freedom | |
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| The Return of Politics | |
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| Two Perspectives | |
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| Is Democratic Power Disintegrating? | |
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| A Weakened Party System | |
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| New Forms of Participation | |
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| Social Democracy's Media System | |
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| The Great Release | |
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| Threats to Independence | |
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| The Media-Biased Society | |
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| The Decay of the General Public? | |
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| The Youth Rebellion | |
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| Feminism | |
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| Marxism-Leninism | |
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| Constitutionalism Rediscovered | |
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| The Return of the Values Debate | |
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| Jesus-a Social Democrat? | |
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| The Common Good | |
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| A Showdown with the Past | |
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| The Return of Politics | |
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| The Last �Soviet States�? | |
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| A Large-Scale Cooperative Effort | |
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| The Volvo Agreement: Another Unsuccessful Campaign | |
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| Toward a Nordic Economic Region? | |
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| Europe | |
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| Why Did Sweden Reverse Its Policy on Europe? | |
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| The Last �Soviet States�? | |
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| After Social Democracy: Toward New Social Structures? | |
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| A Success-but Not Exclusively So | |
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| Social Democracy's Liberal Inheritance | |
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| The Institutional Structures under Pressure | |
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| The Freedom and Rights Revolution | |
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| What Kind of Freedom? | |
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| High Score | |
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| Toward New Structures? | |
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| Politics Matter | |
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| Bibliography | |
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| Index | |