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Byron J. Nordstrom is Professor Emeritus in History and Scandinavian Studies from Gustavus Adolphus College, Minnesota, USA. You can read more about Byron by clicking here.
Universities are important in the Nordic countries because of a generally held belief that education is essential to democracy and it is a…
Anna Lindh was a Swedish Social Democratic politician and a rising star within the party. She took an active part in shaping policy regarding the…
Of the Nordic countries, only Finland and Sweden have developed nuclear powered electricity generation capacities. The decisions to do so were shaped…
The political systems in Denmark, Norway, and Sweden have evolved over centuries of development as hereditary, ‘democratic,’ constitutional…
The Saltsjöbaden Agreement was a very influential collective bargaining agreement between employers and employees that was reached in 1938, and a key…
Constitutions set out the rights of individuals living in the Nordic countries, enshrining fundamental principles, such as full equality before the…
The Nordic countries have seen a number of important changes to their populations since the end of World War II. Perhaps most notable among these are…
Between 1923 and 1941, Nordic governments enacted marriage limitation, sterilisation, castration and abortion laws intended to curb reproduction by…
Emigration has been a part of population mobility in the Nordic region for centuries. The numbers were generally very small until the mid-nineteenth…
Along with their trade union counterparts, employer federations have been key players in the negotiation of nationwide agreements on wages and working…