| List of figures and tables | p. viii |
| Preface | p. ix |
| Policy in Denmark - model and analysis | p. 1 |
| Why is Denmark interesting? | p. 3 |
| The dream of Denmark as a model country | p. 5 |
| Policy patterns and Danish 'DNA profile' | p. 6 |
| Bridge building traditions and policy analysis | p. 7 |
| Analysis and policy style | p. 8 |
| Historical-institutional approach | p. 18 |
| The structure of the book | p. 23 |
| Organizing politics and administration in Denmark | p. 27 |
| Social, economic and cultural characteristics | p. 27 |
| The formation of the parliamentary system | p. 30 |
| The Danish welfare system | p. 34 |
| Fragmentation and new politics | p. 38 |
| The Danish municipalities - between central government and local governance | p. 48 |
| The Janus head of the municipalities. A historic-constitutional view | p. 48 |
| Municipalization of the Public Welfare Sector | p. 52 |
| The modernizing phase of municipal reorganization | p. 59 |
| A Danish NPM model at the local level | p. 64 |
| The Danish municipal model - in the perspective of Democracy | p. 68 |
| From administration policy to modernization policy | p. 72 |
| The legacy from Absolutism and the ministerial reform | p. 74 |
| Administration policy as rationalization and planning | p. 76 |
| Modernization in the 1980s: The foundation is laid | p. 81 |
| Modernization in the 1990s: The tools are applied | p. 83 |
| Actors and policy style | p. 87 |
| General economic policies | p. 93 |
| Establishing a macroeconomic policy | p. 94 |
| Strategy shift under crisis conditions | p. 97 |
| The new policy course and results of the 1990s | p. 101 |
| Why no Danish isomorphism? | p. 105 |
| Actors and policy style | p. 109 |
| Welfare system and social policy | p. 117 |
| Welfare model | p. 118 |
| The formation of the welfare state | p. 121 |
| Institutionalization of welfare protection | p. 125 |
| Actors and policy style | p. 135 |
| Are happy welfare days here to stay? | p. 141 |
| Health care policy | p. 144 |
| The history of health care policy before 1970 | p. 145 |
| Local government reform in the 1970s: Regionalization | p. 149 |
| Expenditure control, NPM and destructuration in the 1980s and 1990s | p. 152 |
| Permanent policy problems after 1970 | p. 158 |
| The most important actors | p. 160 |
| Conclusions | p. 163 |
| Labour market policies | p. 167 |
| The politics of industrial relations | p. 168 |
| The development of labour market policy | p. 171 |
| Labour market policy in the 1990s | p. 175 |
| A new policy profile | p. 177 |
| The development and significance of the steering system | p. 180 |
| Actors and policy style | p. 184 |
| Shift in policy-style? | p. 187 |
| Educational policy | p. 190 |
| The history of the educational policy up to the Second World War | p. 190 |
| Educational policy after the Second World War | p. 196 |
| Educational policy in the 1980s and 1990s | p. 200 |
| Institutional arrangements | p. 202 |
| Actor system and policy style | p. 204 |
| Policy problems and developments | p. 206 |
| Agricultural policy | p. 210 |
| Agricultural policy and ownership | p. 210 |
| Historical genesis | p. 211 |
| Institutionalization of the agricultural policy | p. 213 |
| Actors and policy style | p. 225 |
| Conclusion: Denmark as a model country? | p. 232 |
| Policy profiles and policy style | p. 234 |
| Cooperative adaptation | p. 239 |
| Models of policy making and deliberative processes | p. 249 |
| Path dependency and path shaping | p. 252 |
| What is the relevance of the Danish case? | p. 256 |
| References | p. 261 |
| Index | p. 285 |
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