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Child-Care Policy Arenas

A Comparison between Sweden and the United States

Michigan State University, Eart Lansing, U.S.A.

Philip R. Smith

Michigan State University, Eart Lansing, U.S.A.

Edward A. Duane

Michigan State University, Eart Lansing, U.S.A.

A comparison of Swedish and American policy-making arenas (structure, culture, and programming) for young children is the topic of this paper. Swedish child-care experience is more highly developed, bureaucratized, and politically coordinated. American practice is much more custodial, maintenance oriented, and politically fragmented.

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