Kerstin Sorensen, an assistant professor of political science, authored an article to be published in the March 2011 issue of Scandinavian Political Studies, the official journal of the Nordic Political Science Association.
Scandinavian Political Studies is the only English language political science journal from Scandinavia. The journal publishes widely on policy and electoral issues affecting the Scandinavian countries, and sets those issues in European and global context.
“Party Platforms and Public Childcare: Structural and Ideational Factors Shaping Policy in Norway and Sweden” illustrates how structural factors (economic and political) and ideational factors (gender and religion) interact and combine to produce the particular national policy outcomes in the post-World War II period, using public childcare as a comparative case study.