Index

Academies Programme

Active labour market policy

A Future for Sweden

Anderson, Benedict

ASBOs (asocial behavior orders)

Baby Bonds

Balance Sheet for Welfare

Balls

Bank of England

Barber, Michael

Barney, Darin

Bauman, Zygmunt

Beck, Ulrich

Bell, Daniel: The Coming of Post-Industrial Society

Bentley, Tom

Berggren, Henrik

Berman, Sheri

Beveridge, William; Beveridge model; Beveridge report

Bewes, Timothy

Bildt-government

Blair, Tony; Third Way pamphlet

Blair-Schröder article

Branting, Hjalmar

Bridges of Change

Britain TM: Renewing Our Identity

British Commission on Social Justice

British genius. See Britishness.

BT (British Telecom)

Britishness. See the British genius; national character.

Brown, Gordon; the British genius ; Crosland, Anthony ; “Fair is efficient,”; knowledge economy and opportunity economics; Orwell, George; “politics of potential,” , Scottish Enlightenment; socialism; Sweden

Business Manifesto

Callaghan, James

Capital: anonymous; common good; endogenous growth theory; labor–capital conflict ; knowledge; people as; social democracy’s theory of. See human capital.

Capitalism; abolition of; alternatives to; knowledge capitalism; managerial capitalism; short-term capitalism; social democracy’s critique of; sustainable; varieties of

Capitalization

Carlsson, Ingvar

Cassel, Gustaf

Center Left

Chancellery Right. See Ministry of Finance

Chartism

Children

Childs, Marquis

Christian ethic

Citizenship; active. See social citizenship

Civil society

Class

Clause

Clinton, Bill; Clinton administration

Coates, David

Cohen, Daniel

Coleman, James

Committee on Low Income

Commodification

Common good. See public good

Communitarianism

Community

Compass

Competence saving

CSR (Comprehensive Spending Review)

Connexity. See Mulgan, Geoff

Cool Britannia

Corporate Social Responsibility

Creative industries

Creativity

Crosland, Anthony; Brown, Gordon; mixed economy; New Labour’s reading of; rent of ability; Sweden; The Future of Socialism. See meritocracy; equality of opportunity

Cultural conservatism

Cultural radicalism

Cultural studies

Culture; cultural heritage; cultural policy; value of 88–96

Democratic production order

Demos

Design

Devolution

Disraeli, Benjamin

Distance learning

Diversity

Economy: economism 42, 119; man; and society

Education; alternative notions of; comprehensiveElectronic railways; superhighways. See information technology

Electronic workshop

Eley, Geoff

Emancipation

Empire

Employability

Endogenous growth theory. See human capital; growth; social capital

Entrepreneurship; and Britishness

Equality; diversity, and economic dynamism; freedom; jämlikhet; as utopia; of opportunity. See meritocracy

Erlander, Tage

Esping-Andersen, Gösta

Ethical socialism

Etzioni, Amitai. See communitarianism

ERM (European exchange rate mechanism)

EES (European Employment Strategy)

Excellence

Exploitation

Fabianism; Fabian economics. See Webb, Sydney

Family, family policy

Fascism

Finlayson, Alan

Folkbibliotek, public library

Folkbildning, self-education

Folkrörelse

Freeden, Michael

Freedom of choice, valfrihet

Fukuyama, Francis

Full employment

Functionalism

Galbraith, J. K.

German institutionalism

Giddens, Anthony

Globalization

Good society

Gorz, André

Gray, John

Growth ; and culture; security

Hale, Sarah

Hall, Stuart

Hansson, Per Albin

Hattersley, Roy

Hay, Colin

Held, David

Hinnfors, Jonas

Hobsbawm, Eric

Howell, Chris

Human capital

Hunt, Tristram

Idea-ology

Ideology; and history; as ontology of economy and society; evolutionary nature of 9; means and ends; Third Way as distinct; as ideaology

Illiberal liberalism

ILAs (individual learning accounts)

Improvement; capitalist; and growth; and learning; self-improvement; and utopia; Victorian

Individualism; individualization; New Labour and; Swedish interpretations of

Industrial economy; industrialism; industrial society; Industrial Revolution; Third industrial revolution

Industriavtalet

Information technology

Institute for Public Policy Research

Intelligence

Investment politics

Jacques, Martin

Jenson, Jane

Jessop, Bob

Jowell, Tessa

Kao’s law

Kathedersozialismus

Keynesianism; deficit spending

King, Desmond

Kinnock, Neil

Knowledge: as capital; and democracy; factories; as individual character; man; political economy of; proletariat; and public good; social returns of; society; state responsibility for; useful

Knowledge economy, also knowledge-based economy; and Britishness; and growth; history of; and human capital; as promise of socialism; social democracy’s understanding of; and the social democratic state; and social justice; as Third Way narrative

Kunskapslyftet, knowledge lift

Labour Party

Ladder of opportunity. See meritocracy, fabianism, Webb, Sydney

LO (Landsorganisationen), Swedish Trade Union Federation

Larsson, Allan

Leadbeater, Charles

Lifelong learning

Lindbeck Commission

Lindh, Anna

Lisbon Strategy

Lister, Ruth

Locke, John

Macro–micro strategy

Managerialism; managerial capitalism

Manchester liberalism

Marquand, David

Marshall, T. H.

Marx, Karl

Marxism Today

Mead, Lawrence

Meidner, Rudolf

Meritocracy. See Crosland; ladder of opportunity

Metcalfe’s law

Middle England

Millennium Dome

Minimum wage

Ministry of Finance

Mixed economy

Models: social and liberal; as tropes

Modernization; and Britishness ; and creativity; critique of ; of human capital; as learning process; modernizers; modernizing spirit ; as national discourse; and nostalgia; and utopia; without telos; and the welfare subject

Möller, Gustav

Monetarism

Moore’s law

Morris, William

Moschonas, Gerassimos

Mulgan, Geoff. See Connexity, communitarianism

Murray, Charles

Musial, Kasimierz

Mutuality

Myrdal, Alva

Myrdal, Gunnar

Nation; nation branding; national character

National Health Service (NHS)

Neoliberalism; and utopia

New deal; New Deal for the Unemployed; New Deal with business

New Labour, passim: and Britishness; equality of opportunity; futurism; individualism; labor–capital conflict; Labourism; manifesto; market ; meritocracy; New Times; and the New Musical Express

New Left

New politics

New public management (NPM)

New Times

Nexus debate

90s Program-talsprogrammet

Nostalgia. See People’s Home

Nuder, Pär

NUTEK, Swedish agency for economic and regional growth

OECD

Open university

Opportunity ; educational; economics; society. See equality of opportunity, ladder of opportunity

Orwell, George; The English Genius

Our competitive future

Ownership

Pagrotsky, Leif

Palme, Olof

Pension reform

People’s Home; dark side of; Green, gröna folkhemmet; and nostalgia; privatization; “safeguarding,” ; social exclusion

Persson, Göran; and Blair, Tony; and socialism

Philanthropy

Policy Review

Political economy; of knowledge; of the Third way

Pontusson, Jonas

Post-Fordism

Post-Marxism

Postmodernism

Potential; freeing; human; Politics of; realization of; tapping ; waste of

Poverty; American discourses on; American war on

Pragmatism. See SAP

Pro-Europeanism

Progressive governance

Public good; knowledge as; public interest. See common good; social capital

Public–private partnerships

Public spending

Purnell, James

Putnam, Robert. See social capital

Reagan, Ronald

Rehn Meidner model

Reinventing the Left

Renewal

Renewal

Rent of ability. See Crosland

Rights and responsibilities

The rise of the meritocracy

Rising expectations

Rose, Nicholas

Ryner, Magnus

Safety net. See welfare state

Sahlin, Mona

Samhälle, society

Sandler, Richard

SAP, Swedish social democratic party: and class; education; knowledge economy; labor–capital conflict; market; Marxist legacy; neoliberalism; pragmatism; productivism; rights and responsibilities; self-image; universalism

Sassoon, Donald

Schmidt Vivienne

Schools: competition between ; comprehensives; faith; folkskolan; “free,” ; grammar; and ICT; preschool; public; voucher

Scottish Enlightenment

Security. See security in change

Security in change

Sejersted, Francis

Selection by ability

Self-education

Sennett, Richard

Smith, Adam

Social: capital; capitalization of; citizenship; cohesion; competence; contract; social costs; economy; Europe; social fabric; entrepreneurship; investment; justice; order; policy; social question

Social democracy: and capitalism; culture; democracy; dilemmas of; fascism; history of; market economy; neoliberalism; “new” and “old,” ; the people; reformism; socialism; state; Third Way; utopia; victory of

Social exclusion

Social Exclusion Unit

Springboard. See welfare state

Stakeholding

Sträng, Gunnar

Strategy Unit

Stråth, Bo

Strong Society

Study circle

Supply-side economics

Sure Start program

Swedish Innovation Strategy

Swedish Model; as Third way

Swedishness

Tawney, R. H.

Taylor, Charles

Taylor, Robert

Technology: and alienation; fear of; technological determinism

Thatcher, Margaret; Thatcherism

Third Way: and capitalism; concept of capital; education; emancipation; growth; history of social democracy; market; neoliberalism; Old Left, New Right; public good; socialism; social justice; social policies; Swedish Third Way in the 1980s; utopia; trade unions; Swedish and British

Titmus, Richard

Touraine, Alain

Toyotaism

Trägårdh, Lars

Treasury

Unemployment

Ungar Mangabeira, Roberto

Universalism; punitive

University for Industry

Uselessness; useless.

Utopia: utopian critique ; individuals as; and knowledge ; neoliberal; utopian socialism; and the Third Way; postcapitalist; provisory utopias

Varieties of capitalism

Vinnova, Swedish governmental agency for innovation systems

Vocational–academic divide

Volvo, plant in Uddevalla

Wage earner funds

Webb, Sydney. See ladder of opportunity, Fabianism

Welfare; active; asset-based; capitalism; new contract for; state; welfare-to-work

Wigforss, Ernst

Williams, Raymond

Wilson, Harold

Winter of Discontent

Work ethic

Workfare

Young, Michael; The rise of the meritocracy

Young Roots Programme