Why Active State Measures Have Dominated Regional Policies in Norway by Governments of all Colours: A Historical Review and Comparison with Sweden

• Published in: Arctic Review on Law and Politics
• Main Author: Tufte, Geir
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: University of Tromsø - The Arctic University of Norway, Faculty of Law 2023
• Subjects: geography; geopolitical position; social democratic and bourgeois governments; centre-periphery political cleavage; Bourgeois; Norway; Arctic; Arctic review on law and politics; Northern Norway; Northern Sweden
• Online Access: https://arcticreview.no/index.php/arctic/article/view/5090; https://doi.org/10.23865/arctic.v14.5090

This article compares regional policies in Norway to regional policies in Sweden. The article suggests that geographical and geopolitical factors are the main factors that have influenced regional policies. The article points out that the government in Sweden, immediately following WW2, also assumed...