Renegotiating the Swedish Social Democratic Settlement: From Pension Fund Socialism to Neoliberalization

Claes Belfrage and Magnus Ryner
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Claes Belfrage: University of Wales Swansea, c.a.belfrage@swansea.ac.uk
Magnus Ryner: Oxford Brookes University, mryner@brookes.ac.uk

Politics & Society, 2009, vol. 37, issue 2, 257-287

Abstract: Steering a middle course between the strong neoliberalization thesis and arguments that deny that neoliberalization has occurred, this article accounts for the complex and hybridic shift in Sweden from pension reform through share ownership as a socialist strategy to an as-of-yet incomplete and contradictory neoliberal process. Noting the broader significance of Sweden for the international debate over pension reform, the article unpacks the concept of “mass investment culture†to discern the significant headway toward neoliberalization in Swedish pension savings and provision while still noting profound sources of crisis tendencies.

Keywords: neoliberalism; financialization; pension reform; Swedish welfare state; mass investment culture (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2009
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DOI: 10.1177/0032329209333994

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