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125 Pol. Sci. Q. 1 (2010-2011)

handle is hein.journals/pclscceqry125 and id is 1 raw text is: Can Welfare States Be Sustained in a Global Economy? Lessons from Scandinavia ERIC S. EINHORN JOHN LOGUE The small nations that comprise the Scandinavian area constitute a social laboratory for the Western world. -Walter Galenson', 1949 The last 20 years have not been kind to the European social model, that is, the inclusive welfare states of Western Europe that protected the vulnerable and provided extensive guarantees to working people. Univer- sal and largely free health care, good pensions, paid vacations, sick leave, job security, free higher education, and the rest of the European social model are attractive to European citizens. They are a source of social protection for the individual and of social cohesion for European societies. Indeed, the Euro- pean social model is a major source of legitimacy for the whole European Union (EU). But many economists hold the model to be too inflexible and too expensive for the dog-eat-dog world of the post-Cold War period. More- over, the Great Recession of 2008 has savagely impacted Europe and changed at least the short-term economic prospects for social policies. The new economic world is flat, as Thomas Friedman says, and the rising tide 'Walter Galenson, Labor in Norway (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1949), 1. ERIC S. EINHORN is professor emeritus of political science and adjunct professor of Scandinavian Studies at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. He has published many articles and chapters on Scandinavian politics and the welfare state, including Modern Welfare States: Scandinavian Policy and Politics in the Global Era (2003) co-authored with John Logue. JOHN LOGUE was professor of political science and founder and director of the Ohio Employee Ownership Center at Kent State University until his death in December 2009. In addition to co-authoring Modern Welfare States and many other contributions with Eric Einhorn, he published extensively on modern labor relations, employee ownership, and comparative political economy. Political Science Quarterly Volume 125 Number 1 2010

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