Changing Social Risks and Social Policy Responses in the Nordic Welfare States

Synøve Nygaard Andersen, Statistics Norway, NorwayMalcolm P. Cutchin, University of North Carolina, USUffe Enokson, Linnaeus University, SwedenAriana Guilherme Fernandes, University of Gothenburg, SwedenMia Hakovirta, University of Turku, FinlandSusan Kuivalainen, National Institute for Health and Welfare in Helsinki, FinlandChristian Albrekt Larsen, Aalborg University, DenmarkKristian Larsen, Oslo and Akershus University College, NorwayAlexandru Panican, Lund University, SwedenMinna Rantalaiho, Social Worker, FinlandIver Hornemann Møller, Copenhagen Business School, DenmarkSimone Scarpa, University of Milan-Bicocca, Italy

"Ivan Harslof and Rickard Ulmestig have compiled an excellent collection of studies that take a hard look at how different Nordic countries respond to changing social risks. This book brings a corrective lens to bear on policies related to market oriented management techniques, activation, privatization, decentralization, working-time regulations, support of lone parents, and assimilation of newly arrived immigrants. As such it offers an original view which highlights the impact of an emerging neo-liberal agenda on the Nordic responses to new social risks. A remarkable contribution to the typically idealized view of Nordic welfare states, this volume represents an example of critical analysis at its best." - Neil Gilbert, Chernin Professor of Social Welfare, University of California, USA

• 1. Introduction: Changing Social Risks and Social Policy Responses in the Nordic Welfare States; Ivan Harsløf and Rickard Ulmestig 2. Changing Population Profiles and Social Risk Structures in the Nordic countries; Ivan Harsløf, Simone Scarpa and Synøve Nygaard Andersen 3. Welfare State Support of Lone Parents: Nordic Approaches to a Complex and Ambiguous Policy Field; Mia Hakovirta, Susan Kuivalainen and Minna Rantalaiho 4. Working Time Policy Change and New Social Risks; Uffe Enokson 5. The Growing Emphasis on Education in the Nordic Social Citizenship: Inducing New Risks While Trying to Alleviate Them; Alexandru Panican 6. Structural Unemployment as a New Social Risk in the Nordic countries: A critical reassessment; Christian Albrekt Larsen 7. Fighting Risks with Risks: Self-Employment and New Social Risks in the Nordic Countries; Rickard Ulmestig 8. Health Capital: New Health Risks and Personal Investments in the Body in the Context of Changing Nordic Welfare States; Kristian Larsen, Malcolm Cutchin and Ivan Harsløf 9. Ethnification of New Social Risks: Programmes for Preparing Newly Arrived Immigrants for (Working) Life in Sweden, Denmark and Norway; Ariana Guilherme Fernandes 10. New Geographically-Differentiated Configurations of Social Risks: Labour Market Policy Developments in Sweden and Finland; Simone Scarpa 11. Liberal Responses to New Social Risks – Danish Experiences from Three Decades of Liberalistic Social Policy Reforms; Iver Hornemann Møller 12. Conclusion: The Take on New Social Risks in the Nordic Welfare States; Rickard Ulmestig and Ivan Harsløf