State and civil society in Northern Europe : the Swedish model reconsidered / edited by Lars Trägårdh.

Format:

• Book

Contributor:

• Trägårdh, Lars.
• Bruce Alan Miller Book Fund.

Series:

• European civil society ; v. 3.
• European civil society ; v. 3

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

• Civil society--Sweden.
• Democracy--Sweden.
• Democracy.
• Social capital (Sociology).
• Civil society.
• Sweden.
• Social capital (Sociology)--Sweden.

Physical Description:

xiv, 280 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

New York : Berghahn Books, 2007.

Contents:

• The "civil society" debate in Sweden : the welfare state challenged / Lars Trägårdh
• Civil society and globalization : rethinking the catagories / Jean L. Cohen
• Voluntary association involvement in comparative perspective / Douglas Baer
• Civil participation in a Scandinavian welfare state : patterns in contemporary Sweden / Eva Jeppsson Grassman and Lars Lars Trägårdh
• Associational life, youth, and political capital formation in Sweden : historical legacies and contemporary trends / Eric Amnå
• More centralization, less democracy : the decline of the democratic infrastructure in Norway / Tommy Tranvik and Per Selle
• The state and civil society in an historical perspective : the Swedish case / Bo Rothstein and Lars Trägårdh
• Democratic governance and the creation of social capital in Sweden : the discreet charm of governmental commissions / Lars Trägårdh.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Bruce Alan Miller Book Fund.

ISBN:

• 1845451872
• 9781845451875
• 1845452321
• 9781845452322

OCLC:

65205146

Online:

The Bruce Alan Miller Book Fund Home Page