Overview
- Covers a range of topics including hunger riots, tax rebellions, petition drives, demonstrations, revolutions and strikes
- Connects the changing repertoire of collective action to the introduction and implementation of democratic procedures and democratic constitutions in Scandinavian countries
- Places the study with an international and transnational context
Part of the book series: Palgrave Studies in European Political Sociology (PSEPS)
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Table of contents (14 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Denmark
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Front Matter
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Sweden
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Front Matter
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Comparison
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Keywords
About this book
This book focuses on popular struggles in Denmark, Norway and Sweden from 1700-2015, and how popular struggle in the form of hunger riots, tax rebellions, petition drives, strikes, demonstrations, public meetings and social movements paved the way for the introduction and development of civil liberties and political rights. The author portrays social and political mass mobilization of ordinary people as vital to the construction of democracy, and an essential condition for the formation of the Scandinavian welfare states.
Popular Struggle and Democracy in Scandinavia shows the transnational connections between Denmark, Norway and Sweden and between Scandinavia and the rest of Europe, and also contains a comparison of popular struggle in Scandinavia seen in a wider European perspective.
The book will be of interest to social scientists, historians and students and researchers with an interest in popular struggles in Scandinavia.
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Knut Kjeldstadli is Professor of History at the University of Oslo, Norway.
Stefan Nyzell is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Historical Studies, Malmö University, Sweden.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Popular Struggle and Democracy in Scandinavia
Book Subtitle: 1700-Present
Editors: Flemming Mikkelsen, Knut Kjeldstadli, Stefan Nyzell
Series Title: Palgrave Studies in European Political Sociology
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-57855-6
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2018
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-137-57849-5Published: 27 October 2017
eBook ISBN: 978-1-137-57855-6Published: 16 October 2017
Series ISSN: 2946-6016
Series E-ISSN: 2946-6024
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XI, 457
Number of Illustrations: 10 b/w illustrations
Topics: Political Sociology, Democracy, European Politics, Social Justice, Equality and Human Rights