Francis Sejersted, one of Scandinavia's leading historians, is former chairman of the Norwegian Nobel Committee (the Peace Prize Committee) and current chairman of the Norwegian Freedom of Expression Foundation. The author of many books, he is a senior researcher at the Institute for Social Research in Oslo and a former professor at the University of Oslo.
"One of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 2011"
"I hope that every member of the shadow cabinet reads this
book."---Vernon Bogdanor, New Statesman
"Historians generally overlook modern Scandinavian history, but
Scandinavia's remarkable social stability and prosperity in a
century of European turbulence merits much more attention than it
has received. If only to fill this gap, this history of the
development and demise of 20th-century Norway's and Sweden's
Scandinavian models is highly welcome. The richly detailed work
evaluates intertwined economic, political, and cultural history to
show how in the 1930s, Norway and Sweden assembled durable
farmer-labor coalitions and avoided totalitarian temptations. . . .
[The Age of Social Democracy] fills a huge gap in English-language
work on Scandinavia, and will prove highly useful for comparative
scholarship on the development of industrial democracies and
welfare-state politics more generally."
*Choice*
"There can be no doubt that this is an extremely important--even
seminal--contribution, which may be expected to stand as an
influential account of the Scandinavian twentieth century for some
time."---Mary Hilson, Journal of Modern History
"[A] very well-written and readable overview of an impressive
Scandinavian transformation and the achievements of Scandinavian
social democracy in the twentieth century."---Robert Geyer,
International Affairs
"Drawing upon an extensive array of research from both the social
sciences and humanities, Sejersted delivers an account that is
almost encyclopedic in terms of the topics reviewed, and one that
is likely to become regularly consulted by those seeking a primer
in the history of Scandinavian social democracy. It will be, quire
simply, the go-to book on the topic."---Gregg Bucken-Knapp,
Perspectives on Politics
"[R]ich and multifaceted. . . . [T]he thrust of Sejersted's own
analysis is an empirically well based and theoretically articulated
discussion."---Kristian Gernera, European Legacy
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