Professor Tilton's main field of interest is the
theory and the politics of the welfare state, and local
government. For nine of the last thirteen summers Tilton has
pursued research in Sweden on the politics of the welfare
state and the ideological devel opment of Swedish Social
Democracy. Some of the results of this research appear in The
Case for the Welfare State (co-author Norman Furniss);
articles on Ernst Wigforss (Swedish Social Democracy's great
theorist); and various pieces in Scandinavian Studie s. A book
on the political theory of Swedish Social Democracy is in
progress. Earlier Tilton conducted research in northern
Germany comparing the bases of electoral support for Nazism
and Neo-Nazism, the results of which appeared in Nazism,
Neo-Nazism, a nd the Peasantry. Tilton has also written on de
Tocqueville, American social welfare policy, and Swedish
political development.
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