Participatory Society and Founding of Modern Welfare State: A Case Study of Sweden in the First Half of 20th Century
LI Jie
Institute of Marxist Philosophy and Chinese Modernization; Sun Yat-sen University/Department of Philosophy, Sun Yat-sen University,Guangzhou, Guangdong, 510275
Abstract:In the early 20th century, the absence of universal suffrage excluded disadvantaged groups from Swedish social governance system. This non-participatory social governance resulted in poor welfare condition in Sweden at that time. The social welfare system is mainly intended for poverty relief, supplemented with the low-subsidized insurance system for industrial injury, Medicare and pension. With the realization of universal suffrage in early 1920s, Sweden began the transition to a participatory society. During this period, the SAP changed its ideology, put forward the idea of Folkhemmet, and actively participated in building social welfare system. As a result, Sweden's social insurance system has been greatly improved, with subsidy increased, clear obligation placed on the national financial system to support the insurance funding, and the autonomous groups of the disadvantaged groups brought into the social governance system. In the mid-1930s, with the establishment of SAP's long-term ruling position and the conclusion of the Saltsjöbadsavtalet Agreement, the participatory society in which all social groups engaged in the formulation and implementation of national policies. Henceforth, based on Myrdals'【Crisis in the Population Question】,Swedish government launched a variety of welfare policies for the purpose of reducing the burden of people's daily life, which laid a good foundation for the formation of a modern welfare state.
李捷. 参与型社会与现代福利国家的奠基:以20世纪上半叶瑞典为例[J]. 《深圳大学学报》(人文社科版), 2021, 38(2): 142-148.
LI Jie. Participatory Society and Founding of Modern Welfare State: A Case Study of Sweden in the First Half of 20th Century. , 2021, 38(2): 142-148.
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