Abstract
This is a book about what a national pension system does. It is about how policy, such as a national pension system, shifts responsibility from state to individuals and, thus, works to reconfigure the state— citizen relationship. It is an ethnography about the art of governing and of the workings of contemporary power. With this study of Sweden’s remade national pension system I shed light on how politicians, technocrats, and bureaucrats set out to educate and foster the general public into responsible, hardworking, and financially literate citizens. And I show that such attempts are not readily accepted or adopted by the citizens at the receiving end of the national pension scheme. Instead of providing stability and security, this social security policy invokes a sense of insecurity in Swedish citizens.
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