Politics and Bureaucracy in the Norwegian Welfare State : An Anthropological Approach
Softcover Reprint of the Original 1st 2018 ed.
by
Halvard Vike
Book Details
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Paperback / Softback
Book Series
Approaches to Social Inequality and Difference
ISBN-10
3319877321
ISBN-13
9783319877327
Edition
Softcover Reprint of the Original 1st 2018 ed.
Publisher
Springer International Publishing AG
Imprint
Palgrave Macmillan
Country of Manufacture
CH
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Aug 24th, 2018
Print length
188 Pages
Weight
268 grams
Dimensions
20.90 x 14.90 x 1.60 cms
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Vike's approach is based on an ethnographic practice which may be labeled “in and out of institutions.” It is based on ethnographic work in municipal assemblies, local bureaucracies, political parties, voluntary organizations, and various informal contexts.
The book aims to explain the emergence of the Norwegian-and to some extent, the Scandinavian-welfare state in historical and anthropological terms. Halvard Vike argues that particular forms of political grassroots mobilization contributed heavily to what he calls "a low level of gravity state"-a political order in which decentralized institutions make it possible to curtail centralizing forces. While there is a large international literature on the Nordic welfare states, there is limited knowledge about how these states are embedded in local contexts. Vike''s approach is based on an ethnographic practice which may be labeled "in and out of institutions." It is based on ethnographic work in municipal assemblies, local bureaucracies, political parties, voluntary organizations, and various informal contexts.
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