CASE REPORT
Social Democracy, the Labour market and the Third Sector:
the Swedish Case
1 | Södertörns högskola, Szwecja |
Publication date: 2020-06-05
Problemy Polityki Społecznej 2005;8:31–46
ABSTRACT
The Swedish model’s high level of consistence that links normative assumptions and
institutional practices into an integrated whole, as well as its high aspiration level are probably
unique. The article reviews the normative assumptions, and institutional features of the model
with a particular focus on the role played by the goal of full employment, and the instruments
of Active Labour Market Policy developed in order to achieve it. It is argued that the emphasis
originally placed by the model’s architects on individual employability and labour mobility,
though pivotal for its initial success did, inadvertently contribute to the gradual growth in the
ranks of the permanently unemployable in the later decades. Previously, the low degree of
coordination between the public actors within the system, and the cleavage between the fields
of labour market and welfare largely hindered the emergence of new public solutions, while
social economy actors were kept at bay. The ongoing realignment of local government- and
public sector institutions and tasks opens new scenarios, in which the diversity and high level
of autonomy of public actors may provide the base for the emergence of new partnerships and
initiatives in the field.
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