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The Ambivalent Actors

In: The Quest for a Divided Welfare State

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  • John Lapidus

    (University of Gothenburg)

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The privatization process changes reality in a way that strengthens actors with a clear interest in continuing privatization, while more ambivalent societal actors begin to abandon approaches and positions that were previously obvious to them. The chapter analyses the ambivalent actors, among which are found trade unions, non-profit organizations and some political parties. The ambivalent actors are often having a moral conflict between a defence of the Swedish welfare model and the adoption of a new one, based on semi-private funding of welfare. The non-profit organizations are often more antagonistic to the public system than to the for-profit welfare companies. By offering private health insurance to their members, white-collar unions have already taken a big step away from the principles of the universal welfare model.

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  • John Lapidus, 2019. "The Ambivalent Actors," Springer Books, in: The Quest for a Divided Welfare State, chapter 0, pages 181-198, Springer.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:sprchp:978-3-030-24784-3_13
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-24784-3_13
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