Reorganizing the welfare state administration

Anne Lise Fimreite and Per Lægreid

Public Management Review, 2009, vol. 11, issue 3, 281-297

Abstract: This article addresses the big welfare administration reform in Norway. The reform is a merger of the employment and national insurance administrations, combined with more formal collaboration with the local government social services administration. The reform introduced a mandatory partnership model between central and local government. This model is a hybrid of hierarchy and network. A substantial dilemma in the particular partnership model chosen is how to enhance vertical control at the same time as sustaining the autonomy of local government. The partnership model created to solve this dilemma represents a delicate and ambiguous balance between accountability to the central government and to the local council.

Date: 2009
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DOI: 10.1080/14719030902798198

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