The Making and Circulation of Nordic Models, Ideas and Images

Haldor Byrkjeflot is a Professor at the Department of Sociology and Human Geography at University of Oslo, Norway. Lars Mjøset is Professor of Sociology and Director of the Oslo Summer School for Comparative Social Science Studies at the Social Science Faculty, University of Oslo, Norway. Mads Mordhorst is Associate Professor at Copenhagen Business School (CBS), and the Director of the Centre for Business History, Denmark. Klaus Petersen is Professor of Welfare State History at the Danish Centre for Welfare Studies, and Chair of Humanities at the Danish Centre for Advanced Study, University of Southern Denmark, Denmark.

1. The Making and Circulation of Nordic Models: An Introduction Part 1: The Nordic Model as Socio-economic and Political Construct 2. Images of the Nordic Welfare Model: Historical Layers and Ambiguities 3. Social Science, Humanities and the ‘Nordic Model’ 4. The Utopian Trap: Between Contested Swedish Models and Benign Nordic Branding 5. Tracing the Nordic Model: French Creations, Swedish Appropriations, and Nordic Articulations 6. Adapting the Swedish Model: PSOE-SAP Relations During the Spanish Transition to Democracy 7. The ‘Nordic Model’ in International Development Aid: Explanation, Experience and Export Part 2: Nordic models in specific spheres 8. ‘A Cross between Batman and a Public Ear:’ How the United States Transformed the Ombudsman 9. Branding the Nordic Model of Prostitution Policy 10. The Making and Circulation of Corporate Quotas 11. Beveridge or Bismarck? Choosing the Nordic Model in British Healthcare Policy 1997-c.2015 12. From Innovation to Impact: Translating New Nordic Cuisine into a Nordic Food Model 13. The Creation of a Regional Brand: Scandinavian Design 14. Conclusion and perspectives