Institutionalisation of Scandinavian Consensual Democracy
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1999
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Adam Mickiewicz University Press
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The paper takes as a point of departure the notion of
consensual democracy as a characteristic element of the so called
Scandinavian Model. Both terms, i.e. the consensual democracy
and the Scandinavian Model got really famous only after World
War Two as potential Scandinavian ‘export goods’. The author
argues that singularity of Scandinavian solutions within the
labour market and politics started already before World War
Two. The key to understanding the origin of the Scandinavian
Model lies in understanding of the nature of collective bargaining
in the Nordic countries. The September Agreement of 1899 in
Denmark and the Saltsjobaden Agreement of 1938 in Sweden are
examples of institutionalisation of labour relations, while the
Danish Kanslergade Agreement and the Swedish Kohandel of
1933 are instances taken from parliamentary politics. These examples show how the pattern for conflict resolution in the
Scandinavian countries was institutionalised.
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Folia Scandinavica Posnaniensia vol. 5, 1999, pp. 59-73