Transformations of the Swedish Welfare State ─ From Social Engineering to Governance?

Using an analytical framework based on Foucault's concept of governmentality and through unique case-studies, this volume explores the ongoing transformations taking place in the Swedish welfare state.

BENGT LARSSONAssociate Professor at the Department of Sociology, University of Gothenburg, Sweden.His research interests are in the field of economic sociology includingauditing, trust, economic crime, consumption and over-indebtedness, and union cooperation in Europe.
MARTIN LETELLPost-doctoral Researcher at the Department of Sociology, University of Gothenburg, Sweden.His research concerns the relationships between knowledge production, politics, and citizenship, particularly in connection to risk issues.
HAKAN THORNProfessor at the Department of Sociology and the Gothenburg Centre for Globalization and Development, University of Gothenburg, Sweden. His research concerns social movements and globalization and he has published several books on these topics, including Anti-Apartheid and the Emergence of a Global Civil Society and The Politics of AIDS: Globalization, the State and Civil Society (co-edited with M-L Foller).