caa a22 4500 475841913 CHVBK 20180406123903.0 cr unu---uuuuu 170329e20001201xx s 000 0 eng 10.1023/A:1026551420141 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1023/A:1026551420141 Bergmark Åke Department of Social Work, Stockholm University, S-106 91, Stockholm, Sweden aut Solidarity in Swedish Welfare - Standing the Test of Time? [Elektronische Daten] [Åke Bergmark] Swedish welfare has for decades served as a role model foruniversalistic welfare. When the economic recession hit Swedish economyin the beginning of the 1990s, a period of more than 50 years ofcontinuous expansion and reforms in the welfare sector came to an end.Summing up the past decade, we can see that the economic downturnenforced rationing measures in most parts of the welfare state, althoughmost of this took place in the beginning of the decade. Today, most ofthe retrenchment has stopped and in some areas we can see tendencies ofrestoration - but more so in financial benefits than in the caringsectors. In the article this process is discussed as a process ofreallocation where general principles of solidarity become manifest.Various levels of decision making are discussed within the context ofsocio-political action. Current transitions in Swedish health care aredescribed with respect to coverage rates, content, marketisation anddistribution. Basic principles of distribution are highlighted in orderto analyse the meaning of social solidarity in a concrete allocativesetting. The significance of popular opinion - it's shifts anddeterminants - is also considered. The article concludes with adiscussion of how the (once salient) features of universalism inwelfare and health care provision have been affected by the developmentsin the past decade in Sweden. Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2000 distributive justice nationallicence popular opinion nationallicence solidarity nationallicence Sweden nationallicence universalism nationallicence welfare state nationallicence Health Care Analysis Kluwer Academic Publishers 8/4(2000-12-01), 395-411 1065-3058 8:4<395 2000 8 10728 https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1026551420141 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1026551420141 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Bergmark Åke Department of Social Work, Stockholm University, S-106 91, Stockholm, Sweden aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Health Care Analysis Kluwer Academic Publishers 8/4(2000-12-01), 395-411 1065-3058 8:4<395 2000 8 10728 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer