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In Skien municipality, as in local politics in Norway in general, welfare policy (along with primary education), and the budget problems related to it constitute major issues and concerns, and loom larger in local public debate than any other issue. In the fall of 1993, the Municipal Assembly voted on a general budget that, as it turned out, would involve serious cutbacks in the Health and Welfare Department. This became a big challenge for the Health and Welfare Committee, the political body that serves as the Municipal Assembly and Municipal Council executive body.
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Vike, H. (2018). The Politics of Universalism. 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_3
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