Author(s)

Noralv Veggeland

Lillehammer University College, Lillehammer, Norway..

Europe and the European Union are today swept by an economic and social crisis. The EU is looking for a solution to the crisis, and intends to make worse thing better through state actions and renewed endogenous development, both inside countries and across national borders. Nordic countries are only slightly touched by this crisis. How do Nordic states conduct policies of crisis prevention? How do the interventionist and expensive Nordic welfare states survive in the global age, with demanding and ever changing claims to international competitiveness? The answers seem to be found in their active welfare state and labor marked policy.

Social Capital; Flexicurity; Interventionism; Partnership; Administrative Traditions

N. Veggeland, "Social Capital in a Nordic Context," Beijing Law Review, Vol. 3 No. 2, 2012, pp. 24-30. doi: 10.4236/blr.2012.32004.