Jenny Andersson
Research Fellow CNRS
andersson@ceri-sciences-po.org - Phone: +331 58 71 70 28

Jenny Andersson holds a PhD in Economic History from Uppsala University (2003). Before joining CERI in October 2009, she was post-doctoral fellow and visiting scholar at the European University Institute, Florence, and at the Center for European Studies, Harvard University. She was also awarded the first prize of the Swedish National Scientific Council (Vetenskapsrådet) and worked as associated professor with the Institute for the Studies of the Future in Stockholm. Her PhD dissertation about the transformations of the Swedish social-democracy after World War Two was published in 2006 by Manchester University Press, Between Growth and Security: Swedish Social Democracy from a Strong Society to a Third Way. Her other book, The Library and the Workshop: Social Democracy and Capitalism in an Age of Knowledge, was published in 2009 by Stanford University Press. Jenny Andersson is also member of the editorial board of the Swedish New History project of the Norstedts publishing house.

Teaching
- Sciences Po : The Knowledge Economy as Idea (first year course)

Research interests
- The knowledge economy as idea
- Social Democracy and the Third Way
- The Swedish Model as utopia
- A political history of the future

Bio en français

Publications
Books
  • The Library and the Workshop. Social Democracy and Capitalism in an Age of Knowledge, Stanford,Stanford University Press, à paraître en 2009.
  • Between Growth and Security. Swedish Social Democracy from a Strong Society to a Third Way, Manchester Manchester University Press, 2006.
  • Mellan tillväxt och trygghet. Idéer om produktiv socialpolitik i socialdemokratisk socialpolitisk ideologi under efterkrigstiden (Entre croissance économique et sécurité sociale. La politique sociale en Suède dans l’après-guerre ), Uppsala, Acta Universitatis Upsaliensis, Uppsala Studies in Economic History 67, 2003.
Articles in peer-reviewed journals
  • avec Mary Hilson, “Introduction “, Images of Sweden and the Nordic Countries, numéro spécial du Scandinavian Journal of History, vol. 34, issue 3, pages 219-228. “Swedish Nostalgia and Swedish Light. The Swedish Model as Utopia 1950-2007”, Images of Sweden and the Nordic Countries, numéro spécial du Scandinavian Journal of History, vol. 34, issue 3, pages 229-245.
  •  “Choosing futures. Alva Myrdal and the construction of Swedish futures studies 1967-1972”, International Review for Social History, vol. 51, 2006, p.  277-295.
  •  “The People’s Library and the Electronic Workshop. Swedish and British Social Democracy interpret the Knowledge Society”, Politics and Society, vol. 34, 3, 2006, p. 431-460. nstalt, Un apprentissage organisationnel", Pouvoir et Management Public, 1, 1996.
Contributions to edited volumes
  • ”Solidarity or competition. Creating the European Knowledge Society”, in Magnusson, L., et Stråth, B., dir., European Solidarities. Tensions and contentions of a concept, Brussels, PIE Peter Lang, 2008, p. 293-311. 
  • “The knowledge society as utopia”, in Griffin, M., Moynihan, T,. dir., Exploring the Utopian Impulse. Essays on Utopian Thought and Practice, Oxford, Peter Lang-Ralahine Utopian Studies 2, 2007.
  • “Reflections on the meaning of the Social and Liberal Model”, in  Albers, D., Haseler, S. , Meyer, H., dir., Social Europe : a continents’ answer to market fundamentalism,  Londres, 2006, p. 133-145.
  • “Growth and Security: Swedish reformism in the Post-War Period”, in Callaghan, J., et Favretto, I., dir., Socialism and Social Reform in the Twentieth Century: Cultures of Social Democracy in Historical and Comparative Perspective, Manchester, Manchester University Press/St. Martins Press, 2006, p. 118-135.
  • “A Productive Social Citizenship? Reflections on the Concept of Productive Social Policies in the European Tradition”, in Magnusson, L. and Stråth, B., dir., A European Social Citizenship? Future Preconditions in Historical Light, Brussels, PIE. Peter Lang, 2005.
Other
Working papers
  • ”The Future Landscape”, Working paper, Institut des études du futur, Stockholm, nr.5, 2008.
  • “Socializing Capital – Capitalizing the Social? A Critique of Contemporary Social Democracy”, Working paper n° 145, Center for European Studies, Harvard, 2007.

Other (In Swedish)

  • ”Baklänges in i framtiden, om folkhemsnostalgi och historiska framtidsvisioner” (Le dos vers le futur: la nostalgie comme vision du futur de la Suede contemporaine) in Florin, C., Elgan, E., et Hagemann, G., dir., Den självstyrande medborgaren? Ny historia om rättvisa, demokrati och välfärd, Stockholm, Institutet för framtidsstudier, 2007, p. 29-49
  • ”Kunskap som kritik. Ett perspektiv på det sena 1960-talets och 1980-talets kritik av den starka staten”(Sciences et critiques politiques – perspective sur la critique de l’Etat de 68 et les années 80 en Suède) in Rothstein, B., et Vahlne Westerhäll, L., dir., Bortom den starka staten, Stockholm, SNS, 2005.
  • ”Tillväxt och (o)trygghet” (Croissance et (in)sécurité), in Andersson, J., Björkman, J., Humlesjö, I., Välfärdsstatens skräpvind. Nya historiska perspektiv på välfärdsstaten, Lund, Samtidshistoriska institutet/Studentlitteratur, 2005.
  • ”Produktiv socialpolitik under socialdemokratiet” (La politique sociale sous la social-démocratie), in Nytt Norsk Tidsskrift, Skandinavisk senmodernitet – kulturelle brytninger i velferdsstaten, 2004.
  • “Alvas framtider. Alva Myrdal och svenska framtidsstudier 1967-1972” (Les futures d’Alva. Alva Myrdal et l’invention de la prospective en Suede 1967-72), in Florin, C., et Lundqvist, T., dir., Historia, en väg till framtiden. Perspektiv på det förflutnas roll i framtidsstudier, Stockholm, Institutet för framtidsstudier, 2003.
  • ”Kosta sociala reformer pengar? Nedslag i 1900-talets diskussion om produktiv socialpolitik” (Les réformes sociales sont-elles un coût ?) in Sommestad, L. et Malmberg, B., dir.: Befolkning och välfärd. Perspektiv på framtidens välfärdspolitik, Stockholm, Institutet för framtidsstudier/LO, 2002.
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