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Swedocentric

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Etymology

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From Swedo- +‎ -centric.

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Swedocentric (not comparable)

  1. interpreted in terms of or centered on Sweden
    • 2012, Peter Koslowski, Andreas Follesdal, Restructuring the Welfare State: Theory and Reform of Social Policy, Springer Science & Business Media, →ISBN, page 100:
      The question is whether, having abandoned a largely inapplicable Swedocentric standard for other countries, we have arrived at the opposite extreme where no common standards exist any longer.
    • 2010, James S. Fishkin, Robert E. Goodin, Population and Political Theory, John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN, page 159:
      Our perspective is somewhat Swedocentric.
    • 1992, Professor Marino Regini, The Future of Labour Movements, SAGE, →ISBN, page 134:
      First and foremost, purely cross-sectional studies are trapped in what Michael Shalev (1983) has called the Swedocentric fallacy: ...
    • 2005, Development and Society:
      These trends are, firstly, the Swedocentric trend which sees Sweden as a model and all other countries as a deviation from it; ...

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