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| Weakening trade unions and globalization are examples of what? |
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| things that raised pressure to the U.S. |
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| Economic growth makes it easy to allocate money to ? |
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| To helping others in society; providing social protection. |
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| third world countries raising the price of oil did what to the U.S. ? |
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| It diminished our wealth, so that left us with only a little money to allocate to help the poor. This was an economic pressure / economic challenge. |
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| In terms of the U.S. , the lesser the economic growth , than the leser ? |
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| The less the gov't can help out the poor in society . |
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| Economic problems is wy economic liberalists argued what ? |
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| Ardued that the gov't should play a small role in the economy. This is why we need the small gov't. |
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| Free market forces , free market economy, and slashing taxes is what which u.s. president stood for ? |
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| Ronald Reagan was inspired by who ? |
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| What stopped Reagan from getting as far as Thatcher did ? |
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| Because of checks and balances, Reagan couldn't get as far as Thatcher , and there was a mainly democratic congress during that time period. |
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| Which country wants an element of equity/equality, freedom, but not on any marxian type stuff ? |
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| How do swedens want equality ? |
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| swedens want equality by maintaining liberty. They want everyone to start at the same starting line. |
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| What does the swedish government want to guarantee ? |
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| they want to guarantee everyone a minimal threshold . They don't want their citizens to have to sit out and beg for money on the side of the streets like the ppl in the u.s. are. |
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| What doo the swedens want to do to inequality ? |
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| they want to reduce inequality. |
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| By the swedens "soaking the rich , and giving it to the poor" , what are they doing ? |
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| How do the swedens feel about individualism ? |
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| swedens want solidarity , they love the community and dislike individualism. |
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| When it comes to ppl advancing, how do the swedens feel ? |
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| they understand that some ppl will advance more than others, but they still want to give everyone a fair start. |
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| Why is universal suffrage important to the swedens ? |
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| universal suffrage is important to the swedens because more poor ppl could have the opportunity to vote and outnumber the middle and rich class. |
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| What are the three driving forces of social democracy in sweden ? |
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| the importance of universal suffrage; the importance of collective organization; and the rise of the labor movement. |
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| To swedens , why is it important to push for social reform ? |
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| you have to push for social reform to organize and to see "we're all in the same boat". let's work together. |
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| Which type of system of government does Sweden ? |
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| Parliamentary system of government |
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| In terms of labor and business in sweden , they had to attempt to find a what ? |
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| attempted to find a balance between the two. |
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| Since sweden is such a small country , they have no choice but to what ? |
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| they have no choice but to particpate in trades. They were export-oriented. |
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| Social democracy in sweden wanted to promote what ? |
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| Labor, working-class people. |
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| Once the swedish government became a democratic one , what happened ? |
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| Businesses realized that they would eventually have to compromise w/ the labor unions, since they knew the labor union would be on the govt's side , so eventually there had to be a redistribution. |
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| What is "corporatism" in sweden ? |
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| organized consultation between businesses, labor , and the state. |
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| In sweden , why did the gov't divide business and labor ? |
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| so that they each could have an equal voice. |
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| In sweden , what 3 major things resulted from the business and labor party ? |
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| Business and labor became the main two big peak associations, the gov't invites business and labor by giving the two equal representation, and business and labor get a chance to particpate in the gov't . Like they become a major part of it. |
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| Sadly, why did sweden have very limited "socialization" ? |
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| because of this compromise businesses were still able to have some privatization, & the economy remained predominately private. |
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| why did the social democracy sweden favor governement intervention in the economy ? |
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| Social democracies see problems in the economy and society. Gov't intervention in the market is important to social democrats , because they can decide to tax in order to get money to allocate to different solutions for the poor/needy. But at the same time accepting businesses, but still keeping them under control. |
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| How did the social democracy in Sweden regulate businesses ? |
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| the gov't made guidelines/rules for these businesesses. |
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| What did sweden do in terms of channeling investment ? |
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| the swedish democracy said that businesses' profits would be channeled for reinvestment . They also introduced very high personal income tax rates ( which forced businesses to reinvest) . But there were incentives for reinvesting. This is how they had an impact on business behavior. |
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| In sweden , what type of active labor market policies did they have ? |
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| Sweden invested in skill and retraining so that ppl could be able to get different jobs after being unemployed. They made sure that they could always retrain their citizens , so that they could return to the workforce. |
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| According to social democratics in sweden , a free-market economy has what type of wages that result in what ? |
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| In a free-market economy , you tend to have very unequal wages for ppl with the same skill level , and this why social democratics pushed for thw hole concept of "equal pay for equal work" . This here was a tactic for equity and solidarity. |
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| What two things was sweden able to accomplish ? |
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| equity and efficiency , and was still able to help and support it's businesses. |
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| What type of welfare state did sweden have ? |
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| Sweden had a generous, redistributive, and costly welfare state. |
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| What were some effects/characteristics of sweden's welfare state ? |
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| big investments in healthcare and education ( but the taxes are high) , social inequality was high in sweden before taxation , but once sweden started social spending , taxing , and the welfare state , it began to diminish social inequality. |
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| One of the main characteristics of social democracy in sweden was what ? |
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| a compromise between business and labor. |
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| In sweden , gov't intervention was designed to do what ? |
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| gov't intervention was designed to tame and regulate the businesses. The gov't wanted to channel the money to help the society. They believed in equal pay for equal work . They ended up with two main things ..equity and efficiency. |
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| What were the two most important things that sweden did in terms of the business/labor compromise ? |
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| channel of investment and active labor market policies . |
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| What was the turning point in sweden social democracy ? |
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| the turning point was that certain ppl was still complaining about there still being social inequality , and still having big businesses. Sweden's citizens began to demand more social equality and felt that sweden still behaved like a capitalist country. There was demands for an economic democracy. |
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| Why did sweden feel like they neede to create develop a high-quality equilibrium ? |
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| so that they could keep paying workers higher wages. They were not about to pay high quality wages for low quality workers. |
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| What did one of the most extreme crisis that sweden went into evolve through ? |
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| it eveolved through the swedish social democrats losing the election. |
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| What did the economic recession cause to happen to sweden ? |
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| it caused sweden to have to put a higher spending on the welfare state. |
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