Democratization in the Nordic World

David Delfs Erbo Andersen

ISBN 10: 0299345947 / ISBN 13: 9780299345945

Verlag: University of Wisconsin Press, 2026

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Inhaltsangabe:

Denmark, Norway, and Sweden enjoy some of the happiest populations and highest standards of living in the world, thanks in part to stable, democratic systems of government. Here, David Delfs Erbo Andersen presents a syncretic history of political and socioeconomic developments in the three Scandinavian countries since the early modern period, and contrasts their peaceful transitions with the more dramatic histories of otherwise similar European countries, like France and Germany. Unlike these and many other countries—the United States among them—Scandinavia’s transition to democracy from monarchy was not marked by major violent upheavals or extreme political antagonism. 

Rather, Scandinavia’s peaceful process of democratization owed itself to the development of a penetrative bureaucracy in the early modern period and the activism of cooperative associations, first of farmers in the early nineteenth century and then of industrialized workers in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Thanks to the gradual, relatively consensual adoption of political reforms and social norms, the history of “Nordic democratic exceptionalism” today helps account for the ongoing stability of the Scandinavian countries.

Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor: David Delfs Erbo Andersen is an associate professor in the Department of Political Science at Aarhus University. His work has appeared in American Political Science Review, British Journal of Political Science, Democratization, Comparative Politics, Social Science History, and European Journal of Political Research.

Bibliografische Details

Titel: Democratization in the Nordic World
Verlag: University of Wisconsin Press
Erscheinungsdatum: 2026
Einband: Paperback / softback
Zustand: New