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Setting the Stage: In and Out of Institutions

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Politics and Bureaucracy in the Norwegian Welfare State

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The present book explores how political mobilization from “below” may influence the distribution and dynamics of power in the context of a thoroughly bureaucratized, democratic state.

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Vike, H. (2018). Setting the Stage: In and Out of Institutions. In: Politics and Bureaucracy in the Norwegian Welfare State. Approaches to Social Inequality and Difference. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-64137-9_1

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