Norwegian
Sport Organizations as Policy Implementers in Norway
Paper presentert på Nordisk sosiologkongress i Oslo, 4.-7. august. (2011)
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This paper examines the roles of Norwegian sports organizations in implementing public sports policies and asks what conditions these roles. Our point of departure is that in the Norwegian system, the state has delegated the responsibility for implementing sport policy to a hierarchical organization that acts as a “private government”.
Based on two studies on the use of public funds and on the democratic processes within sports, we argue that the Norwegian model does not fulfill the goals of a decentralized and efficient policy implementation process. Rather, this model resists change and has the unintended consequences of creating resource-dependency and centralization.