PLCP 3120 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Relief Church, Social Democracy, Universal Health Care
13 Dec 2017
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Discussion: welfare state and sweden, roots of the welfare state go back to the establishment of the state church and expropriation of church lands, free churches challenged the church of sweden and worked with liberals and. Interests of the working class were in mind with liberal, social democratic and. Agrarian interests for establishment of social policy: agrarian interests were quite strong due to farmers making up the majority of sweden, eventually with a stronger social democratic party and the transformation of the. Church to take a larger role in social reform, the rhetoric was further toned down and compromises were achieved. At this point it was far too late for the church to gain any lost influence. In the wooldridge reading, the effects of globalization and immigration in modern. Nordic states, including sweden are examined: nowadays, sweden is seeing reduced public spending and has become more welcoming to private-sector competition.
