How to explain the relative impermeability of northern European countries to the crisis ? Is there a homogeneity of the Norwegian, Swedish and Danish social democracies? ? Yohann Aucante presents the different factors which are at the origin of the welfare state and Scandinavian-style industrial democracy while assessing their influence on the rest of Europe.
Yohann Aucante is a lecturer at theEHESS. His research focuses on the comparative organization and government of social protection systems, particularly in Scandinavia, where he is a specialist. He also works on developments in social democracy and, more generally, on political party systems. He is currently working on a large socio-historical study of local welfare government in Northern Europe and has published a textbook on Scandinavian democracies by Armand Colin (Scandinavian democracies. exceptional political systems ?October 2013).