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Another important proponent was Hjalmar Branting, who came into contact with the concept while a student at Uppsala University, and went on to become the first socialist Prime Minister of Sweden.

Defunct Former The term is thought to have its roots in Rudolf Kjellén's vision of a corporatist-styled society based on class collaboration in the national interest, largely based on the German Verein für Socialpolitik's juxtaposing of conservative stability and continuity to social reforms otherwise associated with socialist parties, such as universal healthcare and unemployment benefits, as well as ideas from the British Fabian Society and American Progressivism.

In his famous speech on 18 January 1928, Hansson expressed the Social Democrats' view of society:[5] The good home knows no privileged or misfortuned, no favorites or undesired.

In the good home reigns equality, kindness, cooperation, helpfulness.After Hansson, the same policy was continued until the late 1960s by Prime Minister Tage Erlander.

This, they say, requires social policies such as universal health insurance, child benefits, an occupational pension scheme and primary school.

The urbanization and population continued to grow resulting in a housing crisis, the social democrats built upon the Myrdal legacy by introducing further reforms 1965-1975 that included public funding to landlords, municipalities and co-operatives.