The Rise and Fall of the Miraculous Welfare MachineSweden is well known for the success of its welfare state. Many believe that success was made possible in part by the country's ethnic homogeneity and that the increased diversity of Sweden's population is putting its welfare state at risk. Few, however, have suggested convincing mechanisms for explaining the precise relationship between relative ethnic homogeneity heterogeneity and the welfare state. In this book Carly Elizabeth Schall acknowledges