Citizenship in Nordic welfare states : dynamics of choice, duties and participation in a changing Europe / edited by Bjørn Hvinden and Håkan Johansson.

Includes bibliographical references (pages [226]-243) and index.

Opening citizenship : why do we need a new understanding of social citizenship? / Hak̊an Johansson and Bjørn Hvinden -- From active states to active citizenship? The impact of economic openness and transnational governance / Stefaniá Ośkarsdot́tir -- What do we mean by active citizenship? / Hak̊an Johansson and Bjørn Hvinden -- Nordic activation reforms in a European context : a distinct universalistic model? / Hak̊an Johansson and Bjørn Hvinden -- Individualizing welfare provision : the integrated approach of the Finnish activation reform / Elsa Keskitalo -- The challenges of decentralized delivery of services : the scope for active citizenship in Swedish and Norwegian activation policies / Rune Halvorsen ... [and others] -- Claiming participation rights : social mobilization and citizenship in Denmark and Norway / Jørgen Anker and Rune Halvorsen -- Capabilities and participation : Russian women immigrants in North Norway / Ann Therese Lotherington and Kjersti Fjørtoft -- Europeanization 'from below' : the OMC process on social inclusion in the Swedish welfare state / Hak̊an Johansson -- Contrasting legal concepts of active citizenship : Europe and the Nordic countries / Kirsten Ketscher -- Membership and migration : market citizenship or European citizenship? / Øyvind Stokke -- Double discrimination : human rights and immigrant women in Denmark within the context of the Nordic legal tradition / Stine Jørgensen -- From disabling barriers to participation : the opportunities created by the EU equality strategy / Richard Whittle and Rune Halvorsen -- Enlarging freedom of choice : pension reforms in the Nordic countries and Germany / Karl Hinrichs -- Conclusions : Remaking social citizenship in Nordic welfare states / Bjørn Hvinden and Hak̊an Johansson.

This book offers an innovative analysis of the ways in which the relationship between citizens and welfare states - social citizenship - becomes more dynamic and multifaceted as a result of Europeanization and individualization. Written by interdisciplinary contributors from politics, sociology, law and philosophy, it examines the transformation of social citizenship through a series of illuminating case studies, comparing Nordic countries and other European nations.Dealing with the following areas of national and European welfare policy, legislation and practice: activation - reforms linking income maintenance and employment promotion scope for participation of marginal groups in deliberation and decision-making impact of human rights legislation for welfare and legal protection against discrimination and social barriers to equal market participation coordination of social security systems to facilitate cross-border mobility in Europe pension reform - efforts to make pension systems sustainable. "Citizenship in Nordic Welfare States" will be of interest to students and researchers of social policy, comparative welfare, social law, political science, sociology and European studies.