ABSTRACT
This chapter compares welfare politics and policies in Denmark and Sweden and attempts to provide an explanation for the diverging pathways and fates of corporatism in these countries from the 1980s until the mid-1990s. Why has it been possible to rebuild corporatist consensus in Denmark (Due et al. 1994; Albæck et al. 1998), and why has it withered away in that best-known example of Nordic corporatism, Sweden (Lewin 1994)? And what have been the consequences for the development of both welfare states?
