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Nordic Democracy and ‘Power Investigation (Maktutredningen)’

  • Journal of the Scandinavian Society of Korea
  • Abbr : JSSK
  • 2020, (26), pp.105-145
  • Publisher : The Scandinavian Society of Korea
  • Research Area : Social Science > Area Studies > North Europe(Scandinavian)
  • Received : December 4, 2020
  • Accepted : December 30, 2020
  • Published : December 31, 2020

Inchoon Kim 1

1연세대학교 동서문제연구원

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ABSTRACT

‘Power investigation’ in the Nordic countries from 1972 through 2010 aimed to scrutinize and legitimize power through officially commissioned programmes. The investigation has been understood as the political culture of Nordic self-understanding and the hallmark of Nordic democracy. These investigations have been motivated as responses to major changes and challenges in society, politics, and the economy in the 1970s-80s and in 1990s, such as weakening of the Nordic social democracy, neoliberal globalization, post-coldwar, the EU. The power investigations have contributed to transparency, openness, and decentralization of power, to renewed national narratives, and to enhanced political participation and ‘Nordic democracy model’ based on citizens’ power in the Nordic countries.

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