Cristin-resultat-ID: 1934438
Sist endret: 18. februar 2022, 11:14
NVI-rapporteringsår: 2021
Resultat
Vitenskapelig artikkel
2021

From national activation legislation to local practices in Norway—Why the same law gives diverse practices

Bidragsytere:
  • Håkon Solbu Trætteberg og
  • Anne Skevik Grødem

Tidsskrift

International Journal of Social Welfare
ISSN 1369-6866
e-ISSN 1468-2397
NVI-nivå 2

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Vitenskapelig artikkel
Publiseringsår: 2021
Publisert online: 2021
Open Access

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Scopus-ID: 2-s2.0-85114836058

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Tittel

From national activation legislation to local practices in Norway—Why the same law gives diverse practices

Sammendrag

Social policies are legislated nationally and implemented locally, and despite national attempts at vertical policy coordination, implementation varies. The aim of this article is to better understand variations in local implementation of national policies, emphasising, in particular, structural conditions. Our case is a legislative change in Norway that obliged municipalities to implement compulsory participation and conditionality for young recipients of social assistance. We conducted a comparative case study analysis in which, through 28 qualitative interviews, we compared six municipalities. We found that municipalities that have conceptualised compulsory participation as physical work and long hours in catch-all programmes are also the municipalities that sanction through benefit cuts. The municipalities that were more reluctant to cut benefits were those with the least straining requirements in terms of content and scope. We discuss local variation in terms of local-level path dependence, the size of the municipality and state supervision of municipalities.

Bidragsytere

Aktiv cristin-person

Håkon Solbu Trætteberg

  • Tilknyttet:
    Forfatter
    ved Institutt for samfunnsforskning

Anne Skevik Grødem

  • Tilknyttet:
    Forfatter
    ved Institutt for samfunnsforskning
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