Politics and bureaucracy in the Norwegian welfare state - an anthropological approach

• Halvard Vike

Inngår i serie: Approaches to Social Inequality and Difference

Fra forlagets omtale: 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.