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State and Civil Society: A Regime Change?

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Abstract

In this chapter, we investigate the changes in the relationship between the state and the voluntary sector and discuss the implications the increased role of the market sector within health and human services has for the relationship between sectors. First, we discuss the changes in voluntary sector policy in Norway over the last couple of decades, where the sector experienced increased expectations as to its society contribution. Thereafter, we try to understand these changes by going back in time and look at the ideological and institutional structure of the voluntary sector just before and during the heyday of the welfare state. An important distinction is drawn between voluntary work and activities going on mainly at the local level in traditional voluntary organizations (small scale) and the institutionalized voluntary-based service production in the health and welfare sectors (large scale). We find that market solutions have strengthened its position in fundamental ways on behalf of the voluntary sector when looking at large-scale institutional service delivery, while the small-scale voluntary sector is as vibrant and extensive as ever before. These changes imply deep-going changes in the Nordic welfare model and the relationship between sectors, where market solutions increasingly take over as service providers at the expense of the voluntary sector.

We thank Karl Henrik Sivesind for his comments.

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Notes

  1. 1.

    By “small scale,” we do not primarily mean the overall size of the organizations but where the activity is concentrated and the scope of that activity. Many of these types of organizations, primarily active at the local level, most often have a mother organization and/or umbrella organization at the national level, counting high-aggregate memberships, and may also have an important advocacy role to play (e.g. within sports, culture and leisure).

  2. 2.

    This is primarily within social services in Norway and Denmark, and within health and schools in Sweden.

  3. 3.

    There has also been significant newspaper coverage and a great deal of criticism regarding the potential for misuse of the system (negotiating agreements with players, associations founded purely to obtain the Grass Roots Shares, etc.), which has brought about a notice of altered regulations to prevent and counter system misuse (Ministry of Culture, 2012b).

  4. 4.

    Paid employment in the voluntary sector was estimated to 79,777 full-time equivalent persons in 2009 and to 86,141 in 2014 (Statistics Norway, 2011; Statistics Norway, 2016b).

  5. 5.

    The Contact Committee’s decisions were consensus-based and could not handle controversial issues, even though the committee was autonomous and not part of the Frisam secretary. The Frisam secretary lobbied the ministry and the Parliament, which of course in the long run was a no-survival model, since Frisam at the same time was part of the public administration.

  6. 6.

    That general state support helps secure organizational autonomy may be difficult to understand for people coming from less state-friendly societies like the Anglo-Saxon countries (see Selle, 2008; Trägårdh, Selle, Henriksen, & Hallin, 2013) but is nevertheless a system characteristic of the Scandinavian type of welfare state (Selle, 1999).

  7. 7.

    As late as in the fall of 2016, a new and important umbrella organization for the cultural field was formed (Kulturalliansen). See http://www.kulturalliansen.no/.

  8. 8.

    Virke has an important position within the voluntary-based part of the health and social sectors, but some important voluntary service providers, as well as most of the commercial part, are in the Confederation of Norwegian Enterprise (NHO).

  9. 9.

    Needless to say, there has also been extensive cooperation within the field of leisure and culture since the expansion of a leisure society in the 1960s (Selle, 2013).

  10. 10.

    In a defined-benefit pension scheme, the employer has a responsibility to safeguard for the employee a set pension over and above National Insurance, where the premium each year is fixed according to what is necessary to safeguard this pension. A defined-contribution pension, on the other hand, means that the employer has the responsibility for an annual premium payment as a set percentage of the salary, thus providing greater predictability for the employer (Heitmann, 2013).

  11. 11.

    An agreement on a kind of hybrid pension system for the older voluntary-based institutions is in process. If agreed upon and implemented, it may imply real improvement of these institutions’ competitive position.

  12. 12.

    There seems to be increased support in parts of the political landscape for the state to pay some of the sector’s “extra” pension costs and for voluntary-based institutions to have a higher growth rate than the market-based solutions. For more limited contracts, one no longer has to compete with the market sector, making it somewhat easier for certain types of NGOs to win contracts (https://lovdata.no/dokument/NL/lov/2016-06-17-73). However, we do not know how deep and long lasting such a change in orientation will be or the institutional consequences thereof.

  13. 13.

    The for-profit, full-time employment in public contracts increased by more than 50% from 2007 to 2015, while the non-profit and public sectors were stable (Statistics Norway, 2016a). One reason for this may be that some regions have changed from the traditional framework agreements to competitive tenders, which is a process where the for-profits tend to have an advantage.

  14. 14.

    In some of the bigger cities, where the Labour Party made coalitions with other parties after the last local election, it was decided to limit commercial actors.

  15. 15.

    In spring 2016, the media reported that international businesses (especially Norlandia Care Group AS) and other market-based institutions are getting rich on Norwegian kindergartens and are increasingly buying up such institutions (see, e.g. Øverbø, 2016). The civil society response has been marginal. Also in 2017, there were several of these cases in media, emphasizing the enormous amount of profit taken out of some of these global and also more local companies.

  16. 16.

    For-profit has increased their part of the employment within the welfare field and within social services, especially within daycare centres, child welfare and addiction treatment. For an analysis of changes in employment figures within the different sectors (public, market and voluntary), see Sivesind (2017).

  17. 17.

    Some will understand this as coming out of a new strength since something institutionally is happening. We see it mainly as yet another version of the “come and help us” state (a response out of weakness), in which the strong integrative role of the state in defining this service field and its space is rather obvious.

  18. 18.

    Of course, many of these organizational types historically have had an important political role without being large-scale service providers, but already at this stage, much of the energy had left the traditional social movements (Selle & Øymyr, 1995).

  19. 19.

    This is so even if many of these organizations build large umbrella organizations with an extensive membership base and having an advocacy role, indicating they are not only expressive organizations (Wollebæk & Selle, 2002; Wollebæk & Sivesind, 2010).

  20. 20.

    The relationship between paid and unpaid voluntary works within the voluntary sector makes the Norwegian situation special. When we look at only unpaid voluntary work, Norway scores among the countries with the largest voluntary sector. When we include paid work, Norway is more “in the middle” of such a competition (see Sivesind & Selle, 2010, p. 112). These data concern the whole sector and not only the welfare field. Only looking at the health and welfare part, Norway is further down on the list (Sivesind & Selle, 2010; Sivesind, 2017).

  21. 21.

    To become a separate sector in a country that in this period had so few inhabitants and scarce resources would not in any case have been easy (Selle & Berven, 2001). Size matters.

  22. 22.

    That integration does not necessarily mean state dominance and that civil society autonomy is an important part of this structure can be difficult to grasp if working from a traditional Anglo-Saxon understanding of the state, i.e. the understanding of the state as a distant “enemy” (Selle, 2013; Trägårdh, 2007).

  23. 23.

    For a somewhat similar approach to the German civil society, see Strachwitz and Zimmer (2010).

  24. 24.

    For instance, in Norway in contrast to Sweden, within private elementary schools, you are not allowed to pay dividends to the owners.

  25. 25.

    For a broad discussion of more general change as part of NPM, and whether such changes converge in different types of welfare states, see Smith (2016). See also Henriksen et al. (2012) and Sivesind and Saglie (2017).

  26. 26.

    These days, commercial service providers have gone to court to stop the municipality of Oslo trying to build such a marked for non-profits only. It will not be surprising if we will see more of this.

  27. 27.

    Because of the disadvantages of short-term contracts, this debate has been raised, and we may see some change here as a consequence of the compact agreement and the possible implementation of the new law that to some extent may allow for noncompetitive contracts with the public sector (https://lovdata.no/dokument/NL/lov/2016 - 06-17-73). Some new long-term contracts with the voluntary-based institutions have also appeared but are far from influencing the more general picture.

  28. 28.

    For a broad discussion of non-profit sector challenges in the era of neoliberalism, see Smith (2016) and Smith and Phillips (2017).

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Selle, P., Strømsnes, K., Loga, J. (2018). State and Civil Society: A Regime Change?. In: Enjolras, B., Strømsnes, K. (eds) Scandinavian Civil Society and Social Transformations. Nonprofit and Civil Society Studies. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-77264-6_4

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