Introduction: libertarianism in the Nordics since the 1980s

This essay introduces the theme issue about libertarianism in Nordics since 1980s. It sets out key ambition of our issue, namely to de-Americanize and transnationalize study by approaching as a movement an ideology that has been introduced, translated adapted into very different regional national contexts across world. In so doing, argues historical conditions for were set heritage welfare statism, social democracy liberalism, ways underscored its nature counter-ideology protest. We argue there is distinct temporality Nordics, we introduce main contents contributions on, respectively, Sweden, Denmark, Norway Finland.