This article analyses the crisis of the Swedish Model from a transnational perspective. An introductory section defines and gives analytical meaning to the term 'neoliberal globalization'. The article then specifies the relationship between domestic and international, as well as necessitarian and contingent, determinants in the crisis of Swedish social democracy.
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