Critics say he is a rightwing, free-market advocate who will erode welfare programs and government support for social movements.
A swiftly eroding welfare state might offer the thinnest of safety nets to those who fall on hard times, but it does nothing to address the lack of social mobility caused by the dramatic rise in inequality.
This is problematic, because it means that Kymlicka also does not theorize sufficiently an answer to the question of why multicultural, liberal nationalism might address the mechanisms that erode the welfare state in a context of diversity.
From conservative circles, we now face a coordinated campaign to intensify income inequality, to erode the welfare safety net, to undermine public services and to weaken still further already weak labor unions -- with the entire right-wing initiative legitimated by what should be the completely discredited claims of trickle-down economics.
Mr Reinfeldt's four-party coalition, the Alliance, is out after eight years of tax cuts and pro-market policies that critics say have eroded Sweden's welfare system.
Professor Averil Mansfield, chair of the BMA's board of science, said: "The BMA is particularly concerned that any improvements in tackling child poverty are in danger of being eroded by some government welfare policies.
It was, however, also a critical moment in the remaking of the relationship between the state and citizen in Britain, as the supposed consensus around universal entitlements to welfare was eroded by the concept of individualistic rights to, and choice of, services.
Other social changes since 1975 have further eroded the Keynesian consensus on welfare in the Western democracies and with it the incentive to sustain international cooperation in these fields.
"I read the other day that Britain was more Thatcherite than the Thatcherite era itself and that welfare sympathy had been eroded.
Of course, it won't be easy for schools, which are no longer receiving cash to support children who don't speak English and whose welfare services have been eroded.
