Why are the Nordic countries social democratic countries?

by cyandk

Hi!

I was thinking about this today. Why did the Nordic countries turn out Social democratic countries and liberal?

Is there something particular in their history that would explain this?

OldWorldGlory

There was a thread like this several seventeen days ago with a particularly good answer from /u/vonadler on the part of social democrats in Sweden and a briefer answer from another user on the part of Finland's social democrats.

EDIT: Corrected some things.

gh333

This might also be a good question for /r/AskSocialScience.