ABSTRACT
Until the 1990s, Denmark’s welfare state and Social Democratic Party (Socialdemokratiet i Danmark, now Socialdemokraterne, SD) were eclipsed by its Swedish neighbor in the public’s perception as well as in scholarly debates (Heinze et al. 1999). Only after the successes of the Danish government became noticed throughout Europe in the late 1990s, did Denmark come to be seen as a model for other social democratic parties (e.g. Schmid and Schönemann 1999). In an effort to gauge the extent to which policies of the SD contributed to these successes, this chapter analyzes fi scal, social and labor market policies between 1993 and 2001.
