Contents

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Contents V
3. Preface XIII
4. 1 Introduction: Democracy, Institutional Compatibility and Change 1
5. 2 Social Institutions and the Quality of Democracy 22
6. 3 A Democratic Way of Life: Institutionalizing Individual Freedom in Norway 48
7. 4 Welfare State Discourse and Citizenship Politics: From ‘Silent’ Policy to Steering Logic 76
8. 5 Redistributing Knowledge? How Institutions Affect Citizens’ Political Knowledge Levels: The Scandinavian Case Compared 94
9. 6 Old and New Social Movements in the Nordic Countries: History and Future in an International Perspective 118
10. 7 Committee Governance in Consensus Cultures: An Exploration of Best Practice Cases in Germany and Norway 151
11. 8 Translation and Institutional Change: What Happened when Participatory Budgeting Came to the Nordic Countries? 175
12. 9 Can Descriptive Representation be Justified outside Politics? 193
13. 10 The Battle over a Fair Share: The Creation of Labour Market Institutions in Norway 213
14. 11 Workplace Democracy: Representation and Participation Gaps in the Norwegian Labour Market Model 232
15. 12 Bowling Alone and Working Together? Social Capital at Work 255
16. 13 Stability and Change in Scandinavian Welfare: The Nonprofit Sector as a Buffer against For-Profit Expansion 273
17. 14 No Factory for Dreams: Street-Level Bureaucrats between Activation Targets and User Orientation 296
18. 15 The Demand for Work-Family Policies in Advanced Capitalist Democracies 312
19. 16 Business Elite Confidence in Political Institutions: The Case of Norway 343
20. 17 Elite Compromise as a Mode of Institutional Change: The United States and Norway Compared 363
21. 18 Afterword: Institutional Differentiation and Change 389
22. About the Authors 401