Some files below are available for download but please note that due to copyright restrictions some of them are the Accepted Manuscript (AM) versions rather than the final published article. Where possible, there are also links to the published versions that, in some cases, are behind paywalls.
Journal articles and book chapters
- Donoghue, Matthew and Mikko Kuisma (2022) ‘Taking back control of the welfare state: Brexit, rational-imaginaries and welfare chauvinism’, West European Politics, 45 (1), pp. 177-99. DOI: 10.1080/01402382.2021.1917167.
- Limited number of free full text downloads available via Taylor & Francis Online
- Kuisma, Mikko (2022, forthcoming) ‘The State and Populism’, in Colin Hay, Michael Lister and David Marsh (eds) The State: Theories and Issues, 2nd edition, London: Bloomsbury Academic (Red Globe Press).
- Kuisma, Mikko and Matthew Donoghue (2022, forthcoming) ‘Brexit as a Phenomenon: National Solidarity as a tool against the European Project?’ in Benjamin Leruth, Stefan Gänzle and Jarle Trondal (eds) Routledge Handbook of Differentiation in the European Union, Abingdon: Routledge.
- Nygård, Mikael and Mikko Kuisma (2021) ‘European Family Policy in the Era of Austerity and Populism’ in Bent Greve (ed.) Austerity, Retrenchment and the Welfare State, pp. 306-23. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar.
- Kuisma, Mikko (2020) ‘Nordic Social Democrats: Still Europe’s Progressive Vanguards?’, Constellations: An International Journal of Critical and Democratic Theory, 27 (5), 594-607, DOI:10.1111/1467-8675.12537. OpenAccess.
- Nygård, Mikael, Nyby, Josefine and Mikko Kuisma (2019) ‘Discarding social investment and redistribution in the name of austerity? The case of Finnish family policy reforms 2007—2015’, Policy and Society, 38 (3), pp. 519-36, DOI: 10.1080/14494035.2019.1655834. OpenAccess.
- Nyby, Josefine, Mikael Nygård, Janne Autto, Mikko Kuisma and Sonja Blum (2018), ‘The Role of Discourse in Family Policy Reform: The Case of Finland’, Critical Social Policy, 38 (3), pp. 567-88, DOI: 10.1177/0261018317745609.
- Kuisma, Mikko (2017) ‘Oscillating Meanings of the Nordic Model: Ideas and the Welfare State in Finland and Sweden’, Critical Policy Studies, 11 (4), pp. 433-54, DOI: 10.1080/19460171.2016.1200475. OpenAccess.
- Belfrage, Claes and Mikko Kuisma (2017) ‘Playing a Losing Game – Swedish Social Democrats and the Third Way origins of the “New Swedish Model”’ in Rob Manwaring and Paul Kennedy (eds) Why the Left Loses: Social Democracy in a State of Flux, Bristol: Policy Press.
- Kuisma, Mikko and Mikael Nygård (2017) ‘Immigration, Integration and the Finns Party: Issue-ownership by Coincidence or by Stealth?’ in Pontus Odmalm and Eve Hepburn (eds) The European Mainstream and the Populist Radical Right, London: Routledge.
- Nyby, Josefine, Mikael Nygård, Janne Autto and Mikko Kuisma (2017) ‘Freedom of Choice, Gender Equality, or Employment Protection? Finnish Party Positions on Childcare in the Light of Election Manifestos 2015’, Journal of Social Welfare and Family Law, 39 (3), pp. 279-97, DOI: 10.1080/09649069.2017.1345440.
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- Nygård, Mikael, Mikko Kuisma, Nicole Krüger and Verity Campbell-Barr (2015) ‘Investing in Our Future? The Influence of Social Investment Ideas on Family Policy Discourses in Finland, Germany and the UK’ in Umut Korkut, Gregg Bucken-Knapp and Kesi Mahendran (eds) Discursive Governance in Politics, Policy and Public Sphere, New York: Palgrave Macmillan.
- Kuisma, Mikko and Mikael Nygård (2015) ‘The European Union and the Nordic Models of Welfare: Path Dependency or Policy Harmonisation?’ in Caroline Howard Grøn, Peter Nedergaard and Anders Wivel (eds) The Nordic Countries and the European Union: Still the Other European Community? London: Routledge.
- Kuisma, Mikko (2013) ‘Understanding Welfare Crises: The Role of Ideas’, Public Administration, 91 (4), pp. 797-805, DOI: 10.1111/padm.12082.
- Kuisma, Mikko (2013) ‘”Good and Bad Immigrants”: The Economic Nationalism of the True Finns’ Immigration Discourse’, in Umut Korkut, Gregg Bucken-Knapp, Aidan McGarry, Jonas Hinnfors and Helen Drake (eds) The Discourses and Politics of Migration in Europe, (Europe in Transition: The NYU European Studies Series), New York: Palgrave Macmillan.
- Kuisma, Mikko and Magnus Ryner (2012) ‘Tredje vägens sönderfall och dess konsekvenser på nordisk politik: 2010/11 års svenska och finländska val i ett vidare perspektiv’ in Mikael Nygård and Axel Rappe (eds) Politiska alternativ i en globaliserad värld. En antologi om politiska partiers förändringar och deras spelutrymme, Gothenburg: Daidalos.
- Kuisma, Mikko and Magnus Ryner (2012) ‘Third Way Decomposition and the Rightward Shift in Finnish and Swedish Politics’, Contemporary Politics, 18 (3), pp. 325-42, DOI: 10.1080/13569775.2012.702975.
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- Kuisma, Mikko (2011) ‘Discursive smoke screens: The Politics of Nordic Welfare Reform’, Renewal: A Journal of Social Democracy, 19 (1), pp. 36-46.
- Kuisma, Mikko (2008) ‘Rights or Privileges? The Challenge of Globalization on the Values of Citizenship’, Citizenship Studies, 12 (6), pp. 613-27, DOI: 10.1080/13621020802450684.
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- Kuisma, Mikko (2007) ‘Social Democratic Internationalism and the Welfare State After the ‘Golden Age’’, Cooperation and Conflict, 42 (1), pp. 9-26, DOI: 10.1177/0010836707073474.
- Kuisma, Mikko (2007) ‘Nordic Models of Citizenship: Lessons from Social History for Theorising Policy Change in the ‘Age of Globalisation’’, New Political Economy, 12 (1), pp. 87-95, DOI: 10.1080/13563460601068818.
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Edited collections and special issues
- Kuisma, Mikko (ed.) (2013) The Role of Ideas in Welfare State Crises and Transformations, special issue (symposium) of Public Administration, 91 (4).
- Kuisma, Mikko (ed.) (2007) Nordic Internationalism, special issue of Cooperation and Conflict, 42 (1).
- Kuisma, Mikko (ed.) (2007) The Nordic Model’: Still a Variety of Contemporary Capitalism?, special section of New Political Economy, 12 (1).
Other publications
- Kuisma, Mikko (2022, forthcoming) ‘History (Finland)’ in Cathy Hartley (ed.) Western Europe 2023, London: Routledge.
- Kuisma, Mikko (2021) ‘History (Finland)’ in Cathy Hartley (ed.) Western Europe 2022, London: Routledge.
- Kuisma, Mikko and Matthew Donoghue (eds) (2020) Whither Social Rights in (Post-) Brexit Europe? Opportunities and Challenges, Berlin and London: Social Europe and Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung.
- Kuisma, Mikko (2020) ‘History (Finland)’ in Cathy Hartley (ed.) Western Europe 2021, London: Routledge.
- Kuisma, Mikko and Martin Seeleib-Kaiser (2020) ‘Public versus private? Deconstructing public services in Europe’ in Andrew Harrop, Kate Murray and Justin Nogarede (eds) Public Service Futures: Welfare States in the Digital Age, Brussels and London: FEPS – Foundation for European Progressive Studies and Fabian Society.
- Kuisma, Mikko (2019) ‘History (Finland)’ in Cathy Hartley (ed.) Western Europe 2020, London: Routledge.
- Donoghue, Matthew and Mikko Kuisma (2018) ‘No Brexit Generation Game For The Welfare State’, Social Europe, 5 December.
- Re-posted on the UCL Brexit Blog published by the UCL European Institute, 19 December 2018.
- Re-posted on the Open Labour Blog, 7 January 2019.
- Kuisma, Mikko (2018) ‘History (Finland)’ in Cathy Hartley (ed.) Western Europe 2019, London: Routledge.
- Kuisma, Mikko (2018) ‘Brexit-kellon tikitys voi olla Maylle mahdollisuus’ (The ticking of the Brexit clock can be an opportunity for May’, opinion editorial, Aamulehti, 22 October.
- Donoghue, Matthew and Mikko Kuisma (2018) ‘Brexit Generation Game: How Conflict between Old and Young Masks Welfare Challenges’, Social Europe Brexit Paper Series, No 2, London: Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung and Social Europe Journal.
- Kuisma, Mikko (2017) ‘History (Finland)’ in Cathy Hartley (ed.) Western Europe 2018, London: Routledge.
- Kuisma, Mikko (2016) ‘History (Finland)’ in Cathy Hartley (ed.) Western Europe 2017, London: Routledge.
- Kuisma, Mikko (2016) ‘Who Scares, Wins? The Unintended Political Consequences of the British EU Referendum Debate’, Finnsperts Blog of the Finnish Institute in London.
- Kuisma, Mikko (2012) ‘Oma vaalipiiri aktivoisi ulkosuomalaisia’, (Own constituencies would activate expatriate Finns), opinion editorial, Helsingin Sanomat, 6 June.
- Kuisma, Mikko (2011) ‘Re-politicising the Nordic model: Social Democracy and the Primacy of Politics’, Social Democracy Observatory of the Policy Network.
- Kuisma, Mikko (2010) ‘Pohjoismainen hyvinvointimalli kestää kriisit’ (The Nordic welfare model will survive crises), opinion editorial, Helsingin Sanomat, 6 June.
- Kuisma, Mikko (2008) ‘Reinventing the Nordic Model’, article published by the Policy Network for the joint Policy Network and Fabian Society seminar series on ‘Tackling poverty and inequality in an age of globalisation: A comparison of public attitudes in Britain, the US and the Nordic states‘, London 9 July.
Work in progress
- Kuisma, Mikko (forthcoming) Contemporary Europe, London: Bloomsbury Academic (Red Globe Press), under contract.
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