Transformations of the Swedish Welfare State

CHRISTEL BACKMAN Ph.D. Candidate at the Department of Sociology, University of Gothenburg, Sweden MATTIAS BENGTSSON Post-doctoral Researcher at the Department of Sociology, University of Gothenburg, Sweden TOMAS BERGLUND Associate Professor at the Department of Sociology, University of Gothenburg, Sweden ULLA BJÖRNBERG Professor Emerita affiliated to the Department of Sociology, University of Gothenburg, Sweden MARK ELAM Associate Professor at the Department of Sociology, University of Gothenburg, Sweden OSKAR ENGDAHL Associate Professor at the Department of Sociology, University of Gothenburg, Sweden HANS GLIMELL Professor in Science and Technology Studies at the Department of Sociology, University of Gothenburg, Sweden ANDREAS GUNNARSSON Ph.D. Candidate in Science and Technology Studies at the Department of Sociology, University of Gothenburg, Sweden CECILIA HANSEN LÖFSTRAND Associate Professor at the Department of Sociology, University of Gothenburg, Sweden ERICKA JOHNSON Pro Futura Scientia Fellow at the Swedish Collegium for Advanced Study, Uppsala University, and Associate Professor at the Department of Sociology, University of Gothenburg, Sweden MICHAEL LANDZELIUS Associate Professor and Director of the Urban Safety and Societal Security Research Centre, University of Gothenburg and Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden NORA MACHADO DES JOHANSSON Researcher at the Lisbon University Institute in Portugal and Associate Professor at theDepartment of Sociology, University of Gothenburg, Sweden MARTIN PETERSON Professor Emeritus affiliated with the Research Department of Social Philosophy as well as the Department of Cultural Science at the University of Bergen, Norway JESPER PETERSSON Ph.D. Candidate in Science and Technology Studies at the Department of Sociology, University of Gothenburg, Sweden EBBA SJÖGREN Assistant Professor at the Department of Accounting, Stockholm School of Economics, Sweden GÖRAN SUNDQVIST Professor of Science, Technology and Culture at the University of Oslo, Norway GÖRAN THERBORN Professor Emeritus and former Chair of Sociology at the University of Cambridge, UK CATHRIN WASSHEDE Post-doctoral Researcher at the Department of Sociology, University of Gothenburg, Sweden