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Rhetorics of Nordic democracy
Democracy is today a concept that is overwhelmingly positively evaluated almost everywhere. A lot has been written about socio-economic and cultural backgrounds of democratic regimes as well as their institutional settings. By contrast, not much is known about the political manoeuvres and speech acts by which 'democracy' has been tied to particular regions and cultures in concrete historical situations.
This book discusses a series of efforts to rhetorically produce a particular Nordic version of democracy. It shows that the rhetorical figure 'Nordic democracy' was a product of the age of totalitarianism and the Cold War. It explores the ways in which 'Nordic democracy' was used, mainly by the social democrats, to provide the welfare politics with cultural and historical legitimacy and foundations. Thus, it also acknowledges the ideological and geopolitical context in which the 'Nordic welfare state' was conceptualised and canonised.
The contributors of the book are specialists on Nordic politics and history, who share a particular interest in political rhetoric and conceptual history.
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Keywords
- Cold War
- conceptual history
- Cultural Studies
- Democracy
- Europe
- Finland
- Geographical Qualifiers
- History
- Humanities
- International relations
- interwar
- Language
- Linguistics
- Nordic countries
- Northern Europe, Scandinavia
- Political Ideologies
- Politics & government
- Regional & national history
- Semantics, discourse analysis, etc
- Siding Spring Survey
- Society & culture: general
- Society & Social Sciences
- Sweden
- Team time trial
- thema EDItEUR::1 Place qualifiers::1D Europe::1DN Northern Europe, Scandinavia
- thema EDItEUR::C Language and Linguistics::CF Linguistics::CFG Semantics, discourse analysis, stylistics
- thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JB Society and culture: general::JBC Cultural and media studies::JBCC Cultural studies
- thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JP Politics and government::JPF Political ideologies and movements
- thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JP Politics and government::JPS International relations
- thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History::NHB General and world history
- To Tell the Truth
- Welfare State
Links
DOI: 10.21435/sfh.17web: http://oa.finlit.fi/site/books/10.21435/sfh.17/
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