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Expertise and Power: Historical roots of Sweden’s coronavirus response

Expertise and Power: Historical roots of Sweden’s coronavirus response

Update: 2020-05-25
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Sweden has attracted enormous international attention for its far less stringent coronavirus strategy, largely devised by scientists inside the state bureaucracy. What Swedish governance traditions and political philosophies led to the expert-driven response to COVID-19 that has been variously commended and condemned by commentators both inside and outside of Sweden, and politicized by activists on the left and the right? Prof. Sverker Sörlin, a leading historian and public intellectual, joins the podcast to discuss the historical roots of Sweden’s coronavirus response, and explain how it is being misunderstood and misrepresented by many observers in the midst of the global pandemic.

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Expertise and Power: Historical roots of Sweden’s coronavirus response

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