Politics and Bureaucracy in the Norwegian Welfare State

1. Setting the Stage: In and Out of Institutions
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2. No Direction Home? Doing Anthropology in Norway
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3. The Politics of Universalism
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4. The Welfare State and the Possibility of Solidarity
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5. The Politics of Resistance
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6. Borders, Boundaries, and Bureaucratic Reform
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7. The Welfare Municipality: Universalism, Gender, and Service Provision
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8. Egalitarianism and Individual Autonomy in the Northern European Periphery
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9. Conclusions
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Keywords: Social Sciences, Ethnography, Politics of the Welfare State