1.Introduction: The Institution and the Imaginary in a Nordic Light; Søren Askegaard and Jacob Östberg -- 2. Democracies of taste Ruled by the Law of Jante? Rudiments of a Nordic Sociology of Consumption; Henri A. Weijo -- 3. Market Wonderland: An Essay about a Statist Individualist Consumer...

This article uses the Luxembourg Income Study datasets from circa 2004 to analyse the contribution child maintenance makes to the reduction of child poverty. The countries compared are Canada, UK, USA, Germany, Norway, Denmark, Sweden and Finland representing countries with different child...

A bottom-line of the interest in welfare state programs and cross-national variations in the pattern, size and structure of various social policies, is that we expect that the welfare state is an institution that greatly affects our lives and well-being. A further assumption is that this impact...

This paper examines how far Denmark, Finland, Norway and Sweden have achieved gender equality in earnings. These Nordic countries are contrasted with Germany, the Netherlands and the United Kingdom in the mid-1990s, and include some comparisons to the situation in the 1980s. While all these...