Mikko Kuisma
Public Policy Institute of California
15 Papers
80 Citations
Mikko Kuisma is an academic researcher from Public Policy Institute of California. The author has contributed to research in topics: Welfare state & Globalization. The author has an hindex of 7, co-authored 15 publications. Previous affiliations of Mikko Kuisma include Oxford Brookes University & University of Tübingen.
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Papers
Nordic Models of Citizenship: Lessons from Social History for Theorising Policy Change in the ‘Age of Globalisation’
TL;DR: The Nordic model has often been treated as synonymous with the Nordic welfare state, largely understood to be based on heavily redistributive (social democratic) economic and social policies as mentioned in this paper.
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Rights or privileges? The challenge of globalization to the values of citizenship
TL;DR: The authors argued that these values of citizenship are now challenged by globalization and that the neoliberal principles of the global economy are inherently linked to a political logic of globalization that also creates and intensifies global inequalities and und...
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“Good” and “Bad” Immigrants: The Economic Nationalism of the True Finns’ Immigration Discourse
Mikko Kuisma
- 01 Jan 2013
TL;DR: The relationship between cultural and economic motivations in the Populist Radical Right (PRRP) social and political discourse has been discussed in this article, where they argue against multiculturalism and the difficulties of integrating immigrant communities into native cultures.
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Discarding social investment and redistribution in the name of austerity? The case of Finnish family policy reforms 2007—2015
TL;DR: Finland has conducted family policies that could be labelled social investments, for example, investments in work-family balance or public childcare, while at the same time it has... as mentioned in this paper.
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The role of discourse in family policy reform: The case of Finland
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors analyse the government discourse used for legitimating some of these reforms: the cutbacks in child benefit and the restriction of full-time childcare, and assesses whether this discourse bore the hallmarks of a neoliberal austerity discourse, which could suggest that the reforms were not just a matter of fiscal balancing but also a neoliberal welfare state restructuring.