Overview

The ‘open society’ has become a watchword of liberal democracy and the market system in the modern globalized world. Openness stands for individual opportunity and collective reason, as well as bottom-up empowerment and top-down transparency. It has become a cherished value, despite its vagueness and the connotation of vulnerability that surrounds it. Scandinavia has long considered itself a model of openness, citing traditions of freedom of information and inclusive policy making. This collection of essays traces the conceptual origins, development, and diverse challenges of openness in the Nordic countries and Austria. It examines some of the many paradoxes that openness encounters and the tensions it arouses when it addresses such divergent ends as democratic deliberation and market transactions, freedom of speech and sensitive information, compliant decision making and political and administrative transparency, and consensual procedures and the toleration of dissent. Contributors are: Ainur Elmgren, Tero Erkkilä, Norbert Götz, Ann-Cathrine Jungar, Johannes Kananen, Lotta Lounasmeri, Carl Marklund, Peter Parycek, Johanna Rainio-Niemi, Judith Schossböck, Ylva Waldemarson, and Tuomas Ylä-Anttila.

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Author:   Norbert Götz ,  Carl Marklund
Publisher:   Brill
Imprint:   Brill
Volume:   126
Dimensions:   Width: 15.50cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 23.50cm
Weight:   0.581kg
ISBN:  

9789004281189

ISBN 10:   9004281185
Pages:   272
Publication Date:   14 November 2014
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

1. Introduction Norbert Goetz and Carl Marklund 2. The Concept of Openness: Promise and Paradox Norbert Goetz 3. A Nordic Paradox of Openness and Consensus? The Case of Finland Johanna Rainio-Niemi 4. Ruptures in National Consensus: Economic versus Political Openness in the Globalization Debate in Finland Lotta Lounasmeri and Tuomas Yla-Anttila 5. Nordic Openness in Finland: European Integration, Ideational Transfer, and Institutional Traditions Tero Erkkila 6. The Nordic Ideal: Openness and Populism According to the Finns Party Ainur Elmgren 7. The Procedural Openness of Nordic Welfare State Restructuring Johannes Kananen 8. Open Skies, Open Minds? Shifting Concepts of Communication and Information in Swedish Public Debate Carl Marklund 9. Openness and Elite Oral History: The Case of Sweden Ylva Waldemarson 10. Exporting Nordic Parliamentary Oversight to the European Union Ann-Cathrine Jungar 11. Adopting a New Political Culture: Obstacles and Opportunities for Open Government in Austria Peter Parycek and Judith Schossboeck 12. From Promise to Compromise: Nordic Openness in a World of Global Transparency Carl Marklund Index

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Norbert Götz, Ph.D. (2001), Humboldt University Berlin, is Professor of History at the Institute of Contemporary History, Södertörn University, Stockholm. He has published widely on international relations and civil society, including Deliberative Diplomacy (Republic of Letters, 2011). Carl Marklund, Ph.D. (2008), European University Institute, is a Post-doctoral researcher in political science at the Centre of Baltic and East European Studies, Södertörn University. He has published widely on welfare state issues, including All Well in the Welfare State? (NordWel, 2013).

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