Volume 3, Issue 2 (2007) | Journal of Social Sciences

What Characterises the Nordic Welfare State Model

Bent Greve — 2007-06-30

Journal of Social Sciences, Published online: 30 June 2007; doi:10.3844/jssp.2007.43.51

This article presents the main distinctive characteristics of the Nordic welfare states. These include, for example, full employment, high degree of equality, a high level of taxes and a high level of...

Towards Two-tier Universalism? A Discussion of the Welfare Principle

Catharina Juul Kristensen — 2007-06-30

Journal of Social Sciences, Published online: 30 June 2007; doi:10.3844/jssp.2007.52.59

In this study the common political discourse on the ‘challenge of immigration’ to the Danish welfare state is turned on its head. Instead of focusing on the costs and difficulties of immigration, ...

The Voice of Exit - Towards a Theory of Democratic Inconsistency

Marco Goli — 2007-06-30

Journal of Social Sciences, Published online: 30 June 2007; doi:10.3844/jssp.2007.60.68

The international armed conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan are only the most apparent manifestation of the dilemmas that challenge the European liberal democracy. A much more crucial paradox, as far as...

Multicultural Upper Secondary School Life in Denmark: Identifications, Solidarity and Citizenship

Yvonne Mørck — 2007-06-30

Journal of Social Sciences, Published online: 30 June 2007; doi:10.3844/jssp.2007.69.77

Education has played an important role in the development of the Nordic welfare states. As in other European countries, present day Denmark wrestles with the problem of finding ways to handle the incr...

Limits and Opportunities for Autonomous User Organisations in Denmark and Sweden

Jørgen Anker — 2007-06-30

Journal of Social Sciences, Published online: 30 June 2007; doi:10.3844/jssp.2007.78.87

The Nordic welfare states generally support and facilitate the formation of civil society organisations and they provide relatively good opportunities for participation and interest mediation. The Nor...

From Flexicurity to FlexicArity? Gendered Perspectives on the Danish model

Lise Lotte Hansen — 2007-06-30

Journal of Social Sciences, Published online: 30 June 2007; doi:10.3844/jssp.2007.88.93

In Europe, flexicurity is seen as a way to develop labour markets so they will stay or be more competitive and at the same time secure the European welfare tradition. The Danish welfare society builds...

Breaking out: The Dynamics of Immigrant Owned Businesses

Shahamak Rezaei — 2007-06-30

Journal of Social Sciences, Published online: 30 June 2007; doi:10.3844/jssp.2007.94.105

As far as integration policy in a Danish context is concerned a phenomenon have been observed during the last decade: Immigrant businesses are spreading rapidly in the country, dominating certain bus...