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John Lapidus
Researcher
Economic HistoryVisiting Research Fellow
Economic HistoryAbout John Lapidus
The Swedish welfare model is gradually losing its characteristics, noticed not least by the extensive privatization of provision that began in the early 1990s. But funding has also been privatized to a certain extent, primarily through new supplementary services in healthcare, education and elderly care. Rather than full privatization, however, it is about semi-private welfare solutions, where the consumer has been able to reduce the private cost through different types of tax breaks, and where private providers have been able to free-ride on an infrastructure built up with public funds. In my research, from many different angles and perspectives, using the rapid rise of private health insurance as the prime example, I shed light on the emerging hidden welfare state in Sweden.
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A social-democratic dilemma: Swedish competition policy in the 21st
century
John Lapidus
The Development of European Competition Policy: Social Democracy and Regulation (Edited By Brian Shaev and Sigfrido M. Ramírez Pérez) - 2024 -
The Rise of Semiprivate Elderly Care in a Supposedly Universal Welfare State: A Critical Investigation of a Public Inquiry on the Swedish RUT
Deduction
John Lapidus
The Political Economy of Care: Welfare state capitalism, universalism, and social reproduction - 2024 -
Swedish unions and obligatory complementary income insurance: Securing unemployment benefits in a changing welfare
state
Jesper Hamark, John Lapidus
Social Policy & Administration - 2024 -
Den sjuka debatten: bland vårdindustrins myter, nyspråk och
lögner
John Lapidus
2023 -
Privatising, liberalising and dividing a welfare state without affecting universality? Debunking the myths surrounding the rapid rise of private health insurance in
Sweden
John Lapidus
Health Economics, Policy and Law - 2022 -
En sjukvårdsmodells uppgång och
fall
John Lapidus
Bortom systemskiftet: Mot en ny gemenskap (eds. Niklas Altermark och Magnus Dahlstedt) - 2022 -
Unions, insurance and changing welfare states: The emergence of obligatory complementary income insurance in
Sweden
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Utredningens experter skjuter på
budbäraren
John Lapidus
DN Debatt - 2022 -
Statliga utredare kidnappas av privata
välfärdsindustrin
John Lapidus
DN Debatt - 2022 -
Utredning om sjukförsäkringar bryter mot
direktiven
John Lapidus
DN Debatt - 2021 -
Överdiagnosticering av adhd drabbar de som lider
värst
John Lapidus
DN Debatt - 2021 -
Adhd-diagnoser ska inte ställas av
vinstintressen
John Lapidus
DN Debatt - 2021 -
Indirect and Invisible Regulations Set in Stone: A Driving Force behind the Rise of Private Health Insurance in
Sweden
John Lapidus
The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science - 2020 -
Lagbrott när regionerna låter privatpatienter gå
före
John Lapidus, Daniel Suhonen, Enna Gerin
DN Debatt - 2020 -
Privata sjukvårdsförsäkringar bryter mot
lagen
John Lapidus
2020 -
Välbärgades gömda välfärd raserar den offentliga
vården
John Lapidus
DN Debatt - 2019 -
The Quest for a Divided Welfare State: Sweden in the Era of
Privatization
John Lapidus
2019 -
Ni gör ett mini-USA av svensk
sjukvård
John Lapidus
Expressen - 2018 -
Vi raserar den gemensamma
vården
John Lapidus
Svenska Dagbladet - 2018 -
Välfärd
John Lapidus
Nationalencyklopedin - 2018 -
Tillitsdelegationen undviker de viktiga
frågorna
John Lapidus
Dagens Medicin - 2018 -
Ny lag kantad av
missförstånd
John Lapidus
Dagens Medicin - 2018 -
Rut bidrar till ökande klyftor i
samhället
John Lapidus
Aftonbladet - 2018 -
Den gömda välfärden gör de fattiga
fattigare
John Lapidus
Aftonbladet - 2018 -
Vårdbolaget vill sälja - innan det är för
sent
John Lapidus
Aftonbladet - 2018 -
Har du också missat den gömda
välfärden?
John Lapidus
Expressen - 2018 -
Välfärden klyvs i två delar utan att det
synats
John Lapidus
ETC - 2018 -
Bakom dimridåer urholkas
välfärden
John Lapidus
ETC - 2018 -
S måste välja sida om vinsterna i
välfärden
John Lapidus
Dagens Samhälle - 2018 -
Vårdstölden – hur den privata välfärden tar från det
gemensamma
John Lapidus
2018 -
Vi måste tala om den tudelade
välfärden
John Lapidus
Svenska Dagbladet - 2018 -
Allt fler köper förtur – allmänna vården
hotad
John Lapidus
Svenska Dagbladet - 2018 -
Private health insurance in Sweden: fast-track lanes and the alleged attempts to stop
them
John Lapidus
Health Policy - 2017 -
Privata vårdföretag har skapat en tudelad
välfärd
John Lapidus
Göteborgs-Posten - 2017 -
Sjuk resa mellan vapen och
vård
John Lapidus
Dagens Arena, 6 Oktober 2017. - 2017 -
Korruptiva tendenser i en privatiserad
välfärd?
John Lapidus
Vägen till korruption. 23 September 2017, Uppsala. - 2017 -
Tredje vägens
politik
John Lapidus
Nationalencyklopedin - 2017 -
Privat försäkring urholkar
vården
John Lapidus
Svenska Dagbladet - 2016 -
Halvmesyr om privata
sjukvårdsförsäkringar
John Lapidus
Dagens Nyheter - 2016 -
Lyssna på folket - ta fajten mot
vinsterna
John Lapidus
Aftonbladet - 2016 -
Ett val mellan två
välfärdsmodeller
John Lapidus
Svenska Dagbladet - 2016 -
Reepalu glömmer den pseudoprivata
välfärden
John Lapidus
Dagens Nyheter - 2016 -
Sänk topparnas löner få nystart för
arbetarrörelsen
John Lapidus
Göteborgs-Posten - 2016 -
Välfärdsstatens finansialisering: individen och privata
sjukvårdsförsäkringar
John Lapidus, Jenny Andersson
Vardagslivets finansialisering, Erik Andersson, Oskar Broberg, Marcus Gianneschi & Bengt Larsson (red.) - 2016 -
Svenska
modellen
John Lapidus
Nationalencyklopedin - 2016 -
The Rise of the Welfare Industrial Complex: Explaining Neoliberalism in
Sweden
John Lapidus
Max Planck Sciences Po Center on Coping with Instability in Market Societies, Paris, June 13, 2016 - 2016 -
A Social Democratic Dilemma: Swedish Competition Policy in the 21st
Century
John Lapidus
A Hundred Years of Social Democracy and Cartels, Concentrations, and Competition in Europe, Gothenburg 17-18 November 2016 - 2016 -
Individen på den nya
sjukvårdsmarknaden
John Lapidus, Jenny Andersson
Ord & Bild - 2016 -
Driving forces behind the rise of private health insurance in
Sweden
John Lapidus
11th European Social Science History conference, Valencia, 30 March - 2 April - 2016 -
Tunna argument för individuella
löner
John Lapidus
Svenska Dagbladet - 2015 -
Dags för ny stopplag mot gräddfilerna i
sjukvården
John Lapidus
Dagens Nyheter - 2015 -
Ett omaka par: individuell lönesättning och Sveriges största
fackförbund
John Lapidus
Elfte ekonomisk-historiska mötet Umeå den 8-10 oktober 2015 - 2015 -
An odd couple: individual wage setting and the largest Swedish trade
union
John Lapidus
Labor history - 2015 -
Social Democracy and the Swedish welfare model. Ideational analyses of attitudes towards competition, individualization,
privatization
John Lapidus
2015 -
Reviewing the arguments for individual wage setting within Sweden's largest trade
union
John Lapidus
The 7th Nordic Working Life Conference, Göteborg, Sweden, June 11-13 2014 - 2014 -
Från goda till onda. De politiska partiernas syn på karteller under det senaste
århundradet.
John Lapidus
Organiserad samverkan: Svenska karteller under 1900-talet (Red. Birgit Karlsson). - 2014 -
“It’s just about delivery – not funding”. Muddy arguments for privatization in light of the rise of private health insurance in
Sweden
John Lapidus
38th Annual Meeting of the Social Science History Association. Chicago, 21-24 November, 2013 - 2013 -
Toward a Fragile Compromise: Political Left and Right on Swedish Cartel Legislation,
1925-1993
John Lapidus
Business History Conference, 21-23 mars 2013, Columbus, Ohio - 2013 -
Why Such a Permissive Attitude towards Monopolistic Associations?: social democracy up to the first Swedish law on cartels in
1925
John Lapidus
Scandinavian Journal of History - 2013 -
Why such a permissive attitude towards monopolistic associations? Social Democracy up to the first Swedish law on cartels in
1925
John Lapidus
37th Annual Meeting of the Social Science History Association. Vancouver, British Columbia, 1-4 November, 2012 - 2012 -
Why such a permissive attitude towards monopolistic associations? Social Democracy up to the first Swedish law on cartels in
1925
John Lapidus
7th Sound Economic History Workshop, May 19-20, 2012, Tampere, Finland - 2012