Table of Contents

Section 1: The Politics of the Welfare State (Section Editor: Bo Rothstein)
1: Bo Rothstein: Introduction
2: Stefan Svallfors: Who Loves the Swedish Welfare State? Attitude trends 1980-2010
3: Anders Lindbom: Political Partisanship and Policy Feedback: The Swedish Welfare State after Eight Years of Center-Right Government
4: Christina Bergqvist: The Welfare State and Gender Equality
5: Bo Rothstein: The Moral, Economic and Political Logic of the Swedish Welfare State
Section 2: Constitutional Design (Section Editor: Shirin Ahlbäck Öberg)
6: Shirin Ahlbäck Öberg: Introduction
7: Olof Petersson: Constitutional History
8: Jörgen Hermansson: The Election System
9: Tommy Möller: The Parliamentary System
10: Shirin Ahlbäck Öberg and Helena Wockelberg: The Public Sector and the Courts
Section 3: The Party System (Section Editors: Hanna Bäck and Gissur Erlingsson)
11: Hanna Bäck and Gissur O. Erlingsson: Introduction
12: Nicholas Aylott: The Party System
13: Gissur O. Erlingsson, Ann-Kristin Kölln and Patrik Öhberg: The Party Organizations
14: Peter Esaiasson and Lena Wängnerud: Political Parties and Political Representation
15: Hanna Bäck and Torbjörn Bergman: The Parties in Government Formation
Section 4: Electoral Behaviour (Section Editors: Sören Holmberg and Henrik Ekengren Oscarsson)
16: Sören Holmberg and Henrik Ekengren Oscarsson: Introduction
17: Richard Öhrvall: Voter Turnout
18: Maria Oskarson: The Never-Ending Story of Class-Voting in Sweden
19: Henrik Ekengren Oscarsson and Sören Holmberg: Issue Voting Structured by Left-Tight Ideology
20: Jesper Strömbäck: Swedish Election Campaigns
Section 5: Public Administration (Section Editor: Göran Sundström)
21: Göran Sundström: Introduction
22: Patrik Hall: The Swedish Administrative Model
23: Göran Sundström: Administrative Reform
24: Peter Ehn: The Public Servant
25: Bengt Jacobsson and Göran Sundström: Governing the State
Section 6: Subnational Government (Section Editor: Anders Lidström)
26: Anders Lidström: Introduction
27: Stig Montin: Municipalities, Regions, and County Councils: Actors and Institutions
28: David Feltenius: Subnational Government in a Multi-Level Perspective
29: Lars Niklasson: Challenges and Reforms of Local and Regional Governments in Sweden
30: Anders Lidström: Swedish Local and Regional Government in a European Context
Section 7: Sweden's International Relations (Section Editor: Ole Elgström)
31: Ole Elgström: Introduction
32: Ulf Bjereld and Ulrika Möller: Swedish Foreign Policy: The Policy of Neutrality and Beyond
33: Rikard Bengtsson: Sweden in the Baltic Sea Region
34: Annika Bergman Rosamond: Swedish Internationalism and Development Aid
35: Lisbeth Aggestam and Adrian Hyde-Price: A Force for Good? Paradoxes of Swedish Military Activism
Section 8: Sweden and the EU (Section Editor: Ulrika Mörth)
36: Ulrika Mörth: Introduction
37: Ulrika Mörth: Sweden in a Multigovernance Polity
38: Bengt Jacobsson and Göran Sundström: The Europeanization of the Swedish State
39: Douglas Brommesson: The Europeanization of Swedish Foreign Policy and Beyond: On Multiple Roles in Swedish Post-Cold War Foreign Policy
40: Malena Rosén Sundström: Leading the European Union: Sweden's EU Presidencies 2001 and 2009
Section 9: The Political Economy of Swedish Governance (Section Editor: Johannes Lindvall)
41: Johannes Lindvall: Introduction
42: Jenny Andersson: A Model of Welfare Capitalism? Perspectives on the Swedish Model, Then and Now
43: Leif Lewin and Johannes Lindvall: One Hundred Years of Swedish Economic Policy
44: Lars Calmfors: The Swedish Macroeconomic Policy Framework
45: Torsten Svensson: The Swedish Model of Industrial Relations
Section 10: Policy Making in Sweden (Section Editor: Carl Dahlström)
46: Carl Dahlström: Introduction
47: Torsten Persson: Policy Coordination Under Minority and Majority Rule
48: Olof Petersson: Rational Politics: Commissions of Inquiry and the Referral System in Sweden
49: PerOla Öberg: Interest Organizations in the Policy Process: Interest Advocacy and Policy Advice
50: Ingvar Mattson: Parliamentary Committees: A Ground for Compromise and Conflict

About the Author

Jon Pierre is Professor of Political Science at the University of Gothenburg and Professor of Public Governance at the University of Melbourne. He is author, co-author, editor, and co-editor of more than 25 books. Jon Pierre is editor of Debating Governance (Oxford University Press, 2000) and co-author (with Guy Peters) of Governance, Politics and the State (Palgrave, 2000) and Governing Complex Societies (Palgrave, 2005). His most
recent books include Globalization and Governance (Edward Elgar, 2013) and (with Bengt Jacobsson and Göran Sundström) Governing the Embedded State (Oxford University Press, 2015). His work has also appeared in journals like
Governance, Journal of Politics, Journal of Public Administration and Theory and Journal of European Public Policy.