Halvard Vike: 1 book
Politics and Bureaucracy in the Norwegian Welfare State
An Anthropological Approach
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2017
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...
