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Chapter 1 identified the key dynamics of democratic transformative politics and argued that they can be exemplified by historical experiences in Scandinavia and contemporary Brazil. It was also observed that these dynamics of democratic transformative politics come close to the prescriptive conclusions in the book on ‘Rethinking Popular Representation’ (Törnquist et al. 2009). The question that follows from this discussion is whether such experiences of social democracy have broader relevance, especially in the Global South but also in North–South relations. This is the question that runs through this chapter as well as the three chapters that follow. The present chapter examines the Scandinavian characteristics and their possible relevance in wider contexts. In the subsequent chapters, Patrick Heller analyses common features of the new popular and social democratic-oriented politics in the Global South (Chapter 3) and Benedicte Bull compares previous Scandinavian and current Latin American links between the state and social movements (Chapter 4). Finally, Stokke and Törnquist supplement Heller and Bull’s reviews of positive experiences with an analysis of paradigmatic failures of transformative politics in Indonesia and Sri Lanka.
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Stokke, K., Törnquist, O. (2013). The Relevance of the Scandinavian Experiences. In: Stokke, K., Törnquist, O. (eds) Democratization in the Global South. International Political Economy. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230370043_2
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