The individual research problems of NaDeWe members are situated in three interlinked thematic areas:
I Language and knowledge
Jussi Kurunmäki: Transnational Rhetoric in the Making of National Welfare Democracy
Johanna Rainio-Niemi: Alignments of Democracy, Nation and the Welfare State: Social Science Knowledge, Ideology and National Models
Elina Hakoniemi: Social Democratic Views on Education and the Welfare State in Finland and Sweden
II Mobility and borders
Saara Pellander: Gendered Citizenship and Migration
Miika Tervonen: Immigration, Citizenship and the Boundaries of Welfare State
III Welfare and competitiveness
Pauli Kettunen: Welfare State and Competition State: the Nationalism of Welfare and
Competitiveness
Heidi Haggrén: National Common Good in the Professional Identities and Interest Articulations of Welfare State Workers
Ilkka Kärrylä: The Rise and Fall of the Visions of Industrial and Economic Democracy
Sami Outinen: Social Democratic Reorientation in Issues of Employment from the mid-1970s until the late 1990s