Providing care services: strategies of key actors and emerging policy change in Norway
Providing care services: strategies of key actors and emerging policy change in Norway

Author(s): Marie Louise Seeberg, Jorunn Theresia Jessen
Subject(s): Politics, Governance, Welfare systems, Gerontology
Published by: Masarykova univerzita nakladatelství
Keywords: care services; key actors; strategies; policy; Norway;
Summary/Abstract: In Norway, key actors in eldercare and key actors in childcare do not as a rule coordinate their work across the two care fields. On the contrary, each of the two fields appears to be anchored in sets of policy history that do not, at any recent point in time, converge. Yet they are both part of the same political and social development. Family care strategies and public care regimes are mutually constituted, so that changes in the one will necessarily lead to changes in the other. Comparing the two care fields within one country is especially useful in bringing out the characteristics of each field. In the present chapter, we shall look into some of the implications of the dynamics between family care and public care regimes on the macro level, with emphasis on gender equality both on the labour market and in the family as an explicit and undisputed political goal. In so doing, we build on Daly (2002), especially on her discussion about the implications of care provision for society and on her typology for provision of care. The former draws attention to the implications for gender and ethnic equity. The latter facilitates a comparison of two policy fields that, in spite of being contemporaneous parts of the same welfare state, are organized and understood very differently.

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