The Danish Path to Modernity  

Oleh:

Ostergard, Uffe

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Thesis Eleven vol. 77 no. 1 (Mei 2004), page 25–43.
Topik: agrarian values; capitalism; composite state; 'folk'; 'folkelighed' (populism); helstat (composite state); nation
Fulltext: 25TE771.pdf (134.26KB)

Isi artikel

In a comparative context, Danish national identity and political culture combine features of what is often referred to as East European integral nationalism, typical of smaller, recently independent nation-states, and the patriotic concept of citizenship in the older West European state nations. The explanation of this apparent paradox is that Denmark belongs to both families. A former multinational, composite state in 1864 was cut down to a size that enabled a class of about 60,000 peasant-farmers to establish an ideological hegemony in the diminished and nationalized, yet still fully legitimate, state. A libertarian ideology of social solidarity ended up dominating this rump nationstate. The net result in Denmark has been a political mentality stressing the importance of consensus among all the people, in Danish 'folk'. This populism or 'popular’ ideology (folkelighed) is shared by virtually all political parties. Thus Danish modernity was characterized by industrialized agrarian capitalism with a socially and nationally homogeneous face, i.e. a folkish democracy which I have elsewhere baptized 'Peasants and Danes' (Østergård, 1992).

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