The making and circulation of Nordic models : an introduction / Haldor Byrkjeflot, Mads Mordhorst, and Klaus Petersen -- The Nordic Model as socio-economic and political construct -- Images of the Nordic welfare model -- historical layers and ambiguities / Pauli Kettunen and Klaus Petersen -- Social science, humanities and the 'Nordic Model' / Lars Mjøset -- The utopian trap : between contested Swedish models and benign Nordic branding / Carl Marklund -- Tracing the Nordic Model : French creations, Swedish appropriations, and Nordic articulations / Andreas Hellenes -- adapting the Swedish Model : PSOE-SAP relations during the Spanish transition to democracy / Alan Granadino and Peter Stadius -- The 'Nordic Model' in international development aid : explanation, experience and export / Sunniva Engh -- Nordic models in specific spheres -- 'A cross between Batman and a public ear' : how the United States transformed the ombudsman / Byron Rom-Jensen -- Branding the Nordic Model of prostitution policy / Malcolm Langford and May-Len Skilbrei -- The making and circulation of corporate quotas / Mari Teigen -- Beveridge or Bismarck? Choosing the Nordic Model in British healthcare policy 1997-c.2015 / Tom Hoctor -- From innovation to impact : translating new Nordic cuisine into a Nordic food model / Silviya Svejenova, Jesper Strandgaard Pedersen, and Haldor Byrkjeflot -- The creation of a regional brand : Scandinavian design / Mads Mordhorst -- Conclusion and perspectives / Haldor Byrkjeflot, Mads Mordhorst, and Klaus Petersen.

"This critical and empirically based volume examines the multiple existing Nordic models, providing analytically innovative attention to the multitude of circulating ideas, images and experiences referred to as "Nordic". It addresses related paradoxes as well as patterns of circulation, claims about the exceptionality of Nordic models, and the diffusion and impact of Nordic experiences and ideas. Providing original case studies, the book further examines how the Nordic models have been constructed, transformed, and circulated in time and in space. It investigates the actors and channels that have been involved in circulating models: journalists and media, bureaucrats and policy-makers, international organizations, national politicians and institutions, scholars, diplomats, and analyses where and why models have travelled. Finally, the book shows that Nordic models, perspectives, or ideas do not always originate in the Nordic region, nor do they always develop as deliberate efforts to promote Nordic interests. This book will be of key interest to Nordic and Scandinavian studies, European studies, and more broadly to history, sociology, political science, marketing, social policy, organizational theory and public management"-- Provided by publisher.

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