This is an excellent article on the rise and fall of Scandinavian social democracy. This was supposed to be a model that was an alternative to the state socialism of the Soviet Union, China and Cuba in the 1970s.
Beginning with the rise of neoliberalism in England and the United States, investments in what has been called the matriarchal state have been in decline. On the other hand their active and passive imperialism has been on the rise.
Read in The Greanville Post