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Associative Governance in Scandinavia : Organizing Societies by “Combining Together”

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Ever since Graham Wallas – co‑founder of the London School of Economics, Brit‑
ish public official, and political scientist – romanticized the region in his Great
Society in 1914, the Nordic countries have often been similarly hailed in both
journalistic portrayals and scholarly research. Indeed, depictions of “Nordic ex‑
ceptionalism” seem to have mushroomed since the beginning of the century. In
February 2013, The Economist published a now well‑known front‑page story that
has become frequently cited in scholarly explorations of the region. Illustrated with
a picture of a Viking, the story praised how “the Nordics cluster at the top of league
tables of everything from economic competitiveness to social health to happiness”,
claiming that Nordic societies “have avoided both southern Europe’s economic
sclerosis and America’s extreme inequality” and that “theorists have taken to call‑
ing successful modernization ‘getting to Denmark’” – the latter, of course, being
a reference to Fukuyama’s (2011) renowned depiction of Denmark as a “mythical
place” (p. 14) that is stable, democratic, peaceful, prosperous, and inclusive.

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Call Number

300.4 ANK a

Publisher

New York : Routledge Taylor & Francis Group., 2024

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Language

English

ISBN/ISSN

978‑1‑032‑46674‑3

Classification

300

Content Type

text

Media Type

computer

Carrier Type

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Edition

Cet. 1

Subject(s)

governance

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