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Regional planning --- Sveriges socialdemokratiska arbetareparti. --- Sweden --- Social policy. --- Socialdemokraterna (Political party) --- Socialdemokratiska partistyrelsen --- Parti socialiste suédois --- Shvedskai︠a︡ sot︠s︡ial-demokraticheskai︠a︡ partii︠a︡ --- Sot︠s︡ial-demokraticheskai︠a︡ partii︠a︡ Shvet︠s︡ii --- Švédská sociálne demokratická strana --- SAP (Political party) --- S.A.P. --- Swedish Social Democratic Party --- Swedish Social Democratic Labour Party --- Socialdemokratiska arbetarepartiet (Sweden) --- Social Democratic Labor Party (Sweden) --- Socialdemokratiska partiet (Sweden) --- שוועדישע סאציאל־דעמאקראטישע ארבעטער־פארטיי --- Sveriges socialdemokratiska ungdomsförbund --- Sveriges socialdemokratiska vänsterparti

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In addition to revising our view of the interwar period and the building of European democracies, this book cuts against the grain of most current theorizing in political science by explicitly discussing when and how ideas influence political behavior. Even though German and Swedish Social Democrats belonged to the same transnational political movement and faced similar political and social conditions in their respective countries before and after World War I, they responded very differently to the challenges of democratization and the Great Depression--with crucial consequences for the fates of their countries and the world at large. Explaining why these two social democratic parties acted so differently is the primary task of this book. Berman's answer is that they had very different ideas about politics and economics--what she calls their programmatic beliefs. The Swedish Social Democrats placed themselves at the forefront of the drive for democratization; a decade later they responded to the Depression with a bold new economic program and used it to build a long period of political hegemony. The German Social Democrats, on the other hand, had democracy thrust upon them and then dithered when faced with economic crisis; their haplessness cleared the way for a bolder and more skillful political actor--Adolf Hitler. This provocative book will be of interest to anyone concerned with twentieth-century European history, the transition to democracy problem, or the role of ideas in politics.

Socialism --- Marxism --- Social democracy --- Socialist movements --- Collectivism --- Anarchism --- Communism --- Critical theory --- History --- Sveriges socialdemokratiska arbetareparti --- Sozialdemokratische Partei Deutschlands --- Sveriges socialdemokratiska ungdomsförbund --- Sveriges socialdemokratiska vänsterparti --- Socialdemokraterna (Political party) --- Socialdemokratiska partistyrelsen --- Parti socialiste suédois --- Shvedskai︠a︡ sot︠s︡ial-demokraticheskai︠a︡ partii︠a︡ --- Sot︠s︡ial-demokraticheskai︠a︡ partii︠a︡ Shvet︠s︡ii --- Švédská sociálne demokratická strana --- SAP (Political party) --- S.A.P. --- Swedish Social Democratic Party --- Swedish Social Democratic Labour Party --- Socialdemokratiska arbetarepartiet (Sweden) --- Social Democratic Labor Party (Sweden) --- Socialdemokratiska partiet (Sweden) --- שוועדישע סאציאל־דעמאקראטישע ארבעטער־פארטיי

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Sweden is well known for the success of its welfare state. Many believe that success was made possible in part by the country's ethnic homogeneity and that the increased diversity of Sweden's population is putting its welfare state at risk. Few, however, have suggested convincing mechanisms for explaining the precise relationship between relative ethnic homogeneity/heterogeneity and the welfare state. In this book Carly Elizabeth Schall acknowledges the important role of ethnic homogeneity in Sweden's thriving welfare state, but she argues that it mattered primarily because political elites-especially social democrats-made it matter.Schall shows that diversity and the welfare state are related but that diversity does not undermine the welfare state in a straightforward way. Tracing the development of the Swedish welfare state from the late 1920s until the present day, she focuses on five historical periods of crisis. She argues that the story of Swedish national identity is a story of elite-driven hegemony-building and that the linking of social democracy and national identity colored the integration of immigrants in important ways. Social democracy could have withstood the challenge posed by immigration, but the faltering of social democratic hegemony opened a door for anti-immigrant sentiment. In her deft analysis of the relationship between immigration and the welfare state in Sweden, Schall makes a compelling argument that has relevance for immigration policy in the United States and elsewhere.

Welfare state --- Nationalism --- History --- Sveriges socialdemokratiska arbetareparti --- Sweden --- Emigration and immigration --- Ethnic relations --- Politics and government --- Consciousness, National --- Identity, National --- National consciousness --- National identity --- State, Welfare --- Socialdemokraterna (Political party) --- Socialdemokratiska partistyrelsen --- Parti socialiste suédois --- Shvedskai︠a︡ sot︠s︡ial-demokraticheskai︠a︡ partii︠a︡ --- Sot︠s︡ial-demokraticheskai︠a︡ partii︠a︡ Shvet︠s︡ii --- Švédská sociálne demokratická strana --- SAP (Political party) --- S.A.P. --- Swedish Social Democratic Party --- Swedish Social Democratic Labour Party --- Socialdemokratiska arbetarepartiet (Sweden) --- Social Democratic Labor Party (Sweden) --- Socialdemokratiska partiet (Sweden) --- שוועדישע סאציאל־דעמאקראטישע ארבעטער־פארטיי --- Suède --- Zweden --- Schweden --- Svezia --- Suecia --- Zviedrija --- Shvet︠s︡ii︠a︡ --- Szwecja --- Sverige --- Konungariket Sverige --- Kingdom of Sweden --- International relations --- Patriotism --- Political science --- Autonomy and independence movements --- Internationalism --- Political messianism --- Economic policy --- Public welfare --- Social policy --- State, The --- Welfare economics --- Sveriges socialdemokratiska ungdomsförbund --- Sveriges socialdemokratiska vänsterparti --- スウェーデン --- Suwēden

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When a government in a democracy acts in our name, are we, as citizens, responsible for those acts? What if the government commits a moral crime? The protestor's slogan--"Not in our name!"--testifies to the need to separate ourselves from the wrongs of our leaders. Yet the idea that individual citizens might bear a special responsibility for political wrongdoing is deeply puzzling for ordinary morality and leading theories of democracy. In Our Name explains how citizens may be morally exposed to the failures of their representatives and state institutions, and how complicity is the professional hazard of democratic citizenship. Confronting the ethical challenges that citizens are faced with in a self-governing democracy, Eric Beerbohm proposes institutional remedies for dealing with them. Beerbohm questions prevailing theories of democracy for failing to account for our dual position as both citizens and subjects. Showing that the obligation to participate in the democratic process is even greater when we risk serving as accomplices to wrongdoing, Beerbohm argues for a distinctive division of labor between citizens and their representatives that charges lawmakers with the responsibility of incorporating their constituents' moral principles into their reasoning about policy. Grappling with the practical issues of democratic decision making, In Our Name engages with political science, law, and psychology to envision mechanisms for citizens seeking to avoid democratic complicity.

Democracy --- Moral and ethical aspects. --- Moral and ethical aspects --- John Rawls. --- Justice as Fairness. --- agency. --- associative accounts. --- authority. --- belief. --- citizens. --- citizenship. --- coauthors. --- cognitive biases. --- cognitive burden. --- cognitive partisanship. --- complicity. --- cosubjects. --- decision making. --- delegation. --- deliberation. --- deliberative democracy. --- democracy. --- democratic institutions. --- democratic labor. --- democratic state. --- democratic theory. --- distributive justice. --- elections. --- epistemic virtues. --- ethics. --- government. --- heuristics. --- injustice. --- judicial mechanisms. --- judicial review. --- justice. --- lawmaking. --- macrodemocratic theory. --- marginality. --- microdemocratic theory. --- moral obligations. --- moral value. --- morality. --- nonideal democratic theory. --- participation. --- participatory accounts. --- patriotism. --- peer principle. --- philosopher-citizens. --- plebiscitary mechanisms. --- political science. --- political wrongdoing. --- politics. --- popular constitutionalism. --- practical authority. --- pride. --- principled representation. --- principles theory. --- principles. --- public speech. --- reasoning. --- redundancy. --- regret. --- representation. --- representatives. --- responsibility. --- shared liability. --- social order. --- socioeconomic inequalities. --- superdeliberation. --- superdeliberators. --- triage principle. --- usability principle. --- Political philosophy. Social philosophy --- General ethics