The gendered effects of the reregulation of the Swedish welfare stateFootnote*

A draft version of this paper was presented at the York Political Economy Conference, Toronto, Canada, May 2003.1 thank the participants for their comments. I would also like to thank Hester Eisenstein, Tammy Findlay, Leo Panitch, and Ann Porter for their comments and help.

References

• Andersen , Karen M. 2001 . “The Politics of Retrenchment in a Social Democratic Welfare State: Reform of Swedish Pensions and Unemployment Insurance.” . Comparative Political Studies , 34.9
   Google Scholar
• Aylott , Nicholas . 1999 . Swedish Social Democracy and European Integration: The People's Home on the Market , Aldershot : Ashgate .
   Google Scholar
• Bakker , Isabella . 1996 . “Deconstructing Macro‐economics Through a Feminist Lens.” . In Women and Canadian Public Policy , Edited by: Brodie , Janine . Toronto : Harcourt Brace .
   Google Scholar
• Beneria , Lourdes and Lind , Amy . July 1995 . “Engendering International Trade: Concepts, Policy, and Action.” , GSD Working Paper Series No. 5 July ,
   Google Scholar
• Bergman , Solveig . 1999 . “Women in New Social Movements.” . In Equal Democracies? Gender and Politics in the Nordic Countries , Edited by: Bergqvist , Christina . Oslo : Scandinavia University Press .
   Google Scholar
• Briskin , Linda . 1999 . “Mapping Women's Organizing in Sweden and Canada: Some Thematic Considerations.” . In Women's Organizing and Public Policy in Canada and Sweden , Edited by: Briskin , Linda and Eliasson , Mona . Montreal/Kingston : McGill‐Queen's University Press .
   Google Scholar
• Brodie , Janine . 1996 . “Canadian Women, Changing State Forms, and Public Policy.” . In Women and Canadian Public Policy , Edited by: Brodie , Janine . Toronto : Harcourt Brace .
   Google Scholar
• Burness , Catriona . 1999 . A Swedish Exclusive? the ‘Support Stockings’ and Increasing Women's Parliamentary Representation in Sweden , Orebro : Orebro Universitet .
   Google Scholar
• Castles , Francis . 2001 . “Reflections on the methodology of comparative type construction: three worlds or real worlds?” . Acta Politica , 36.3
   Google Scholar
• Clayton , Richard and Pontusson , Jonas . 1998 . “Welfare‐State Retrenchment Revisited: Entitlement Cuts, Public Sector Restructuring, and Inegalitarian Trends in Advanced Capitalist Societies.” . World Politics , 51.1
   Google Scholar
• Clement , Wallace . 1994 . “Exploring the Limits of Social Democracy: Regime Change in Sweden.” . Studies in Political Economy , 44.1
   Google Scholar
• Clement , Wallace and Mahon , Rianne . 1994 . “Swedish and Canadian Perspectives on the Swedish Model,” . In Swedish Social Democracy: A Model in Transition , Edited by: Clement and Mahon . Toronto : Canadian Scholars’ Press .
   Google Scholar
• Cook , Alice H. , Lorwin , Val R. and Daniels , Arlene Kaplan . 1992 . The Most Difficult Revolution: Women and Trade Unions , Ithaca : Cornell University Press .
   Google Scholar
• Cox , Robert W. 1997 . “A Perspective on Globalization.” . In Globalization: Critical Reflections , Edited by: Mittelman , James . Boulder : Lynne Rienner .
   Google Scholar
• Curtin , Jennifer . 1999 . Women and Trade Unions: A Comparative Perspective , Aldershot : Ashgate Publishing Limited .
   Google Scholar
• Daniels , Nancy . 1992 . “Who's Minding the Kids? Scandinavia's New Forms of Subsidized Childcare.” . Scandinavian Review , Autumn
   Google Scholar
• Daune‐Richard , Anne‐Marie and Mahon , Rianne . 2001 . “Sweden: Model in Crisis.” . In Who Cares? Women's Work, Childcare, and Welfare State Redesign , Edited by: Jenson , Jane and Sineau , Mariette . Toronto : University of Toronto Press .
   Google Scholar
• Eduards , Maud L. 1989 . “Women's Participation and Equal Opportunities Policies.” . In Social Change in Sweden No. 41 , New York : Swedish Information Service .
   Google Scholar
• Eisenstein , Hester . 1990 . “Femocrats, Official Feminism and the Uses of Power.” . In Playing the State: Australian Feminist Interventions , Edited by: Watson , Sophie . London : Verso .
   Google Scholar
• _____ . 1996 . Inside Agitators: Australian Femocrats and the State , Philadelphia : Temple University Press .
   Google Scholar
• Elman , R. Amy . 1996 . Sexual Subordination and State Intervention: Comparing Sweden and the United States , Providence : Berghahn Books .
   Google Scholar
• Esping‐Andersen , Gosta . 1990 . The Three Worlds of Welfare Capitalism , Princeton : Princeton University Press .
   Google Scholar
• _____ . 2002[a] . “Towards the Good Society, Once Again?” . In Why We Need a New Welfare State , Edited by: Esping‐Andersen , Gosta . Oxford : Oxford University Press .
   Google Scholar
• _____ . 2002[b] . “A New Gender Contract.” . Idem.
   Google Scholar
• Friedan , Betty . 1974 . The Feminine Mystique , New York : Dell .
   Google Scholar
• Gstohl , Sieglinde . 2002 . Reluctant Europeans: Norway, Sweden, and Switzerland in the Process of Integration , Boulder : Lynne Rienner .
   Google Scholar
• Hemerijck , Anton . 2002 . “The Self‐Transformation of the European Social Model(s).” . In Why We Need a New Welfare State , Edited by: Esping‐Andersen , Gosta . Oxford : Oxford University Press .
   Google Scholar
• Hirst , Paul and Thompson , Grahame . 1999 . Globalization in Question: The International Economy and the Possibilities for Governance , Maiden : Polity Press .
   Google Scholar
• Huber , Evelyne and Stephens , John D. 1998 . “Internationalization and the social democratic model: crisis and future projects.” . Comparative Political Studies , 31.3
   Google Scholar
• Inter‐Parliamentary Union . 30 March 2003 . Women in National Parliaments 30 March ,
   Google Scholar
• Jaggar , Alison . 1983 . Feminist Politics and Human Nature , Totowa : Rowman & Allanheld .
   Google Scholar
• Jenson , Jane and Mahon , Rianne . 1993 . “Representing Solidarity: Class, Gender and the Crisis in Social‐Democratic Sweden.” . New Left Review , 201
   Google Scholar
• Jenson , Jane and Sineau , Mariette . 2001[a] . “New Contexts, New Policies.” . In Who Cares? Women's Work, Childcare, and Welfare State Redesign , Edited by: Jenson and Sineau . Toronto : University of Toronto Press .
   Google Scholar
• _____ . 2001 [b] . “Comparing Childcare Programs: Commonalities and Variety.” . Idem
   Google Scholar
• Kelber , Mim . 1994 . Women and Government: New Ways to Political Power , Westport, Conn. : Praeger .
   Google Scholar
• Lindahl , Rutger . 2000 . “Swedish Public Opinion and the EU.” . In Sweden and the European Union Evaluated , Edited by: Miles , Lee . London : Continuum .
   Google Scholar
• Mahon , Rianne . 1999 . “'Both Wage Earner and Mother’: Women's Organizing and Childcare Policy in Sweden and Canada.” . In Women's Organizing and Public Policy in Canada and Sweden , Edited by: Briskin , Linda and Eliasson , Mona . Montreal/BGngston : McGill‐Queen's University Press .
   Google Scholar
• _____ . 2000 . “Swedish Social Democracy: Death of a Model?” . Studies in Political Economy , 63 : 27 – 59 .
   Google Scholar
• Myles , John . 1994 . “Decline or Impasse?: The Current State of the Welfare State.” . In Swedish Social Democracy: A Model in Transition , Edited by: Clement , Wallace and Mahon , Rianne . Toronto : Canadian Scholars’ Press .
   Google Scholar
• _____ . 2002 . “A New Social Contract for the Elderly?” . In Why We Need a New Welfare State , Edited by: Esping‐Andersen , Gosta . Oxford : Oxford University Press .
   Google Scholar
• Myrdal , Alva and Myrdal , Gunnar . 1934 . The Crisis in the Population Question
   Google Scholar
• Olsen , Gregg M. 1999 . “Half Empty or Half Full? The Swedish Welfare State in Transition.” . Canadian Review of Sociology and Anthropology , 36.2
   Google Scholar
• _____ . 2002 . The Politics of the Welfare State: Canada, Sweden and the US , Toronto : Oxford University Press .
   Google Scholar
• Panitch , Leo . 2001 . “Reflections on Strategy for Labour.” . In Socialist Register 2001: Working Classes/Global Realities , Edited by: Panitch , Leo and Leys , Colin . Halifax : Fern wood .
   Google Scholar
• _____ . 2000 . “The New Imperial State.” . New Left Review , 2
   Google Scholar
• _____ . 1998 . “'The State in a Changing World’: Social‐Democratizing Global Capitalism?” . Monthly Review , 50.5
   Google Scholar
• _____ . 1994 . “Globalization and the State.” . In Socialist Register 1994: Between Globalism and Nationalism , Edited by: Miliband , Ralph and Panitch , Leo . Halifax : Fernwood .
   Google Scholar
• Pierson , Paul . 1996 . “The New Politics of the Welfare State.” . World Politics , 48.2
   Google Scholar
• _____ . 2001 . The New Politics of the Welfare State , New York : Oxford University Press .
   Google Scholar
• Pontusson , Jonas . 1987 . “Radicalization and Retreat in Swedish Social Democracy.” . New Left Review , 165
   Google Scholar
• Pontusson , Jonas and Swenson , Peter . 1996 . “Labor Markets, Production Strategies, and Wage Bargaining Institutions: The Swedish Employer Offensive in Comparative Perspective.” . Comparative Political Studies , 29.2
   Google Scholar
• Rosen , Sherwin . 1996 . “Public Employment and the Welfare State in Sweden.” . Journal of Economic Literature , 34.2
   Google Scholar
• Ruin , Olof . 2000 . “The Europeanization of Swedish Politics.” . In Sweden and the European Union Evaluated , Edited by: Miles , Lee . London : Continuum .
   Google Scholar
• Ryner , Magus . 1999 . “Neoliberal Globalization and the Crisis of Swedish Social Democracy.” . Economic and Industrial Democracy , 20
   Google Scholar
• Sundstrom , Marianne and Stafford , Frank P. 1992 . “Female labour force participation, fertility, and public policy in Sweden.” . European Journal of Population , 8
   PubMedGoogle Scholar
• Swedish Institute . 2003 . Economy and Trade
   Google Scholar
• Turner , Bengt and Whitehead , Christine M.E. 2002 . “Reducing Housing Subsidy: Swedish Housing Policy in an International Context.” . Urban Studies , 39.2
   Google Scholar
• UN Secretary‐General . 1999 . 2999 World Survey on the Role of Women in Development: Globalization, Gender and Work
   Google Scholar
• Vogel , Steven K. 1996 . Freer Markets, More Rules: Regulatory Reform in Advanced Industrial Countries , Ithaca : Cornell University Press .
   Google Scholar
• Watson , Sophie . 1990 . “The State of Play: An Introduction.” . In Playing the State: Australian Feminist Interventions , Edited by: Watson , Sophie . London : Verso .
   Google Scholar
• Williams Walsh , Mary . 1996 . “Where Women's Work is Job No. 1.” . Los Angeles Times , 28 September
   Google Scholar
• Soe , Christian , ed. 1997 . Annual Editions Comparative Politics 97/98. , 15lh ed. , Connecticut : Dushkin/McGraw‐Hill .
   Google Scholar
• Winkler , Celia . 2002 . Single Mothers and the State: The Politics of Care in Sweden and the United States , Boston : Rowman & Littlefield .
   Google Scholar
• A draft version of this paper was presented at the York Political Economy Conference, Toronto, Canada, May 2003.1 thank the participants for their comments. I would also like to thank Hester Eisenstein, Tammy Findlay, Leo Panitch, and Ann Porter for their comments and help.
   Google Scholar