Abstract
The present article deals with some of the main issues concerning the perception of the Nordic welfare state in Italy. First the article describes how and why socialist and communist leftists oppose the Nordic model. Then it shows how, around 1980, more factually informed and less ideologically biased descriptions changed this picture. In this positive evolution, more critical views focusing on (albeit mild) Nordic eugenic practices are also taken into account. Finally, the article focuses on the new image of the Nordic model as modernized welfare states (Schumpeterian states, as some scholars define them) effectively coping with enhanced globalized competition and therefore chosen as the benchmark of EU welfare reform. The concluding remarks also deal with the contradictions and setbacks of this ‘Europeanization’ of the Italian welfare debate.
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