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<b>'A story of resilience, pain and joy' - </b><i><b>inews</b> </i><br/><br/>As stunt double to Daniel Radcliffe in the Harry Potter film franchise, stuntman David Holmes helped to move J.K. Rowling's era-defining story from the page to the big screen. His work as a real-life Fall Guy enabled him to create some of the most memorable action sequences in the Wizarding World, as he became the first person ever to play Quidditch. In living his own hero's journey, David was also one of only a handful of people to have worn the iconic wizard's cape, glasses and scar in front of the cameras.<br/><br/>That is, until an accident changed his life forever.<br/><br/>During the making of <i>Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1, </i>David broke his neck in a stunt rehearsal and was instantly paralysed. From talented junior gymnast and stunt prodigy to fully qualified Hollywood stuntman, his story is a brutally honest portrait of a man who lost everything but found different ways to reimagine new possibilities with love, friendship and optimism - and he later co-created a BAFTA-nominated documentary about his life. David's behind-the-scenes look at one of the biggest film series of all time is both jaw-dropping and hilarious.<br/><br/>Powerful and emotional, his is a story of hope and vulnerability and paints a picture of what it truly takes to rebuild a life and become <i>The Boy Who Lived</i>.

America is undergoing a massive experiment: It is moving, in fits and starts, toward a multiracial democracy, something few societies have ever done. But the prospect of change has sparked an authoritarian backlash that threatens the very foundations of our political system. Why is democracy under assault here, and not in other wealthy, diversifying nations? And what can we do to save it? With the clarity and brilliance that made their first book, How Democracies Die, a global bestseller, Harvard professors Steven Levitsky and Daniel Ziblatt offer a coherent framework for understanding these volatile times. They draw on a wealth of examples-from 1930s France to present-day Thailand-to explain why and how political parties turn against democracy. They then show how our Constitution makes us uniquely vulnerable to attacks from within: It is a pernicious enabler of minority rule, allowing partisan minorities to consistently thwart and even rule over popular majorities. Most modern democracies-from Germany and Sweden to Argentina and New Zealand-have eliminated outdated institutions like elite upper chambers, indirect elections, and lifetime tenure for judges. The United States lags dangerously behind. In this revelatory book, Levitsky and Ziblatt issue an urgent call to perfect our national experiment. It&apos;s a daunting task, but we have remade our country before-most notably, after the Civil War and during the Progressive Era. And now we are at a crossroads: America will either become a multiracial democracy or cease to be a democracy at all.

I denna jämförande studie av de fyra nordiska länderna visas hur litet den traditionella välfärdspolitiken påverkades av välfärdskrisen mot slutet av 70-talet. Inhemska faktorer som graden av universalism, folkligt stöd, arbetsmarknadspolitiska åtgärder tycks betyda mer än internationell ekonomi för att förklara stabiliteten i välfärdspolitiken.

Detta är en bok om flexibilitet på arbetsmarknaden. Författarna jämför Kanada och Sverige, två länder som uppvisar stora likheter i fråga om sysselsättning, näringslivsstruktur m m, men som klart skiljer sig i fråga om institutionella arrangemang på arbetsmarknaden. Kanada har närmast en "fri marknad" medan Sverige länge fört en mer interventionistisk politik inriktad på full sysselsättning och anställningstrygghet. Författarna diskuterar dels flexibilitet på makronivå, dels hur förändring på företagsnivå hanteras i de två länderna. De visar hur företags, fackföreningars och individers inställning till förändring skiljer sig mellan Sverige och Kanada. Kanadensiska fackföreningar är både svagare och mer på sin vakt mot förändringar än de svenska. När starka fackliga organisationer passerar en viss "tröskel" ökar trycket på dem att ta ett samhällsansvar - vilket vanligen inbegriper en förståelse för behovet av flexibilitet på arbetsmarknaden. Förutsttningen för att acceptera förändring är förstås att man får något i utbyte, t ex viss social trygghet för medlemmarna. Kanada och Sverige är exempel på att olika institutionella förhållanden på arbetsmarknaden kan producera tämligen likartade ekonomiska utfall.

During the last 30 years, the market forces have made forays into the Swedish social welfare system. Over a relatively short period of time, a number of private companies have been established within the school, health and social care systems activities which were earlier practically exclusively run by the public sector. How has this influenced the quality of the activities, the conditions of employment and the democratic transparency of society? These are some of the questions that Kommunal, Swedens largest trade union in the public sector, tries to answer in this book. Another aim of this text is to show how the Swedish welfare system is constructed and how it differs from welfare systems in many other countries. One important difference is that the Swedish welfare system is still publicly funded by taxes paid by all working people, even though parts of it are run by private actors.

The Journey Ahead - Ending The Hiv Epidemic [Bok / Häftad]

What has become of the famous Swedish Model? On the surface some features seem familiar: high taxes, generous welfare systems and vast government bureaucracies. But dig deeper and you will discover that major transformations have taken place. In particular the unique school voucher system, with its combination of public finan-cing and individual choice, has become emblematic of the New Swedish Model. As a symbol of the major reforms of the 1990s, it encapsulates the idea of the capitalist welfare state. Today, freedom of choice is champio-ned as a superior method of how to use politics to liberate and empower citizens. Freedom of choice is now an integral part of the Swedish welfare model. Many reforms were implemented or developed by Social Democratic governments, as well as centre-right governments. But in the 1970s the idea of freedom of choice and private companies in the public sector was highly controversial. This book tells the story of how freedom of choice revolutionised and created a New Swedish Model. From the controversial debates in the 1970s, via the first experiments in the 1980s, through the major reforms in the 1990s, it shows how this new model succeeded in transforming the vast public sector into becoming the servant of the citizenry instead of its master. It is the story of the power of ideas, and of how long-term opinion making can truly make a difference. Karin Svanborg-Sjövall has a background as a journalist, and political advisor to the Swedish Minister for Higher Education and Research. She is currently responsible for welfare policy at Timbro, a Stockholm-based, liberal think tank.