TY  - BOOK
ED  - Strang, Johan
ED  - Kurunmäki, Jussi
AB  - "Democracy is today a concept that is overwhelmingly positively evaluated almost everywhere. A lot has been written about socio-economic and cultural backgrounds of democratic regimes as well as their institutional settings. By contrast, not much is known about the political manoeuvres and speech acts by which 'democracy' has been tied to particular regions and cultures in concrete historical situations. This book discusses a series of efforts to rhetorically produce a particular Nordic version of democracy. It shows that the rhetorical figure 'Nordic democracy' was a product of the age of totalitarianism and the Cold War. It explores the ways in which 'Nordic democracy' was used, mainly by the social democrats, to provide the welfare politics with cultural and historical legitimacy and foundations. Thus, it also acknowledges the ideological and geopolitical context in which the 'Nordic welfare state' was conceptualised and canonised.    The contributors of the book are specialists on Nordic politics and history, who share a particular interest in political rhetoric and conceptual history.  "
DO  - 10.21435/sfh.17
ID  - OAPEN ID: 638203
ID  - OAPEN ID: OCN: 1030821540
ID  - OAPEN ID: 0355-8924;1458-526X
ID  - OAPEN ID: http://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/31126
KW  - nordic countries
KW  - welfare state
KW  - cold war
KW  - conceptual history
KW  - interwar
KW  - democracy
KW  - Finland
KW  - Siding Spring Survey
KW  - Sweden
KW  - Team time trial
KW  - To Tell the Truth
L1  - https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/31126/1/638203.pdf
L1  - https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/31126/1/638203.pdf
L1  - https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/31126/1/638203.pdf
LA  - English
LK  - https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/26358
PB  - Finnish Literature Society / SKS
PP  - Helsinki, Finland
PY  - 2010
SN  - 9789522227867;9789522227850
TI  - Rhetorics of Nordic democracynull
ER  - 
