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1. The Social Purpose of Economic Policy.

Author

Lindvall, Johannes

Subjects
*ECONOMIC policy, *ECONOMICS, *DEMOCRACY, *POLITICAL culture, *ECONOMIC reform, *POLICY sciences
Abstract

I explain why full employment remained the primary objective of Swedish economic policies in the 1970s and 1980s, when other advanced democracies gave priority to price stability. The reason was, I argue, that a specific set of norms about the social purpose of politics were present in Swedish political culture until the late 1980s. My empirical evidence also suggests that Sweden’s trajectory of economic policy changes can only partly be explained with reference to structural economic factors, or to economic ideas. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Published
2002

2. The Politics of Purpose.

Author

Lindvall, Johannes

Subjects
*ECONOMIC policy, *PRICE inflation, *DEMOCRACY, *MACROECONOMICS, *EMPLOYMENT
Abstract

Three models of economic policymaking--the politics of bargaining, the politics of expertise, and the politics of purpose--can explain why Swedish governments made low inflation the primary objective of macroeconomic policy ten to fifteen years later than most other advanced democracies. Major economic policy shifts are caused by the disintegration of established norms regarding the purpose of political authority. Neither structural economic change nor the introduction of new economic ideas made Swedish governments give up the defense of full employment. They gave up its defense only after the norms of Sweden's political culture changed in the late 1980s. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Published
2006
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