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Preface

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 January 2026

Kurt Klaudi Klausen  and
Per Seile
Kurt Klaudi Klausen
Affiliation:
Professor and Head of the MPM Program at the Department Political Science and Public Management, Odense University, Campusvej 55, 5230 Odense M, Denmark
Per Seile
Affiliation:
Professor at the Department of Comparative Politics, University of Bergen, and Senior Researcher at the Norwegian Research Centre in Organisation and Management, Bergen, Rosenbergsgate 39, 5015, Bergen, Norway
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Extract

In the international literature on the third sector, the Scandinavian countries have tended to be portrayed, in a sociological sense, as an ‘ideal type’ of society in which the state has taken over the obligations of voluntary and non-governmental organisations. With this special issue of Voluntas, we utilise the first comprehensive overview of the third sector in Scandinavia to challenge this image. This prima facie impression of complete state dominance is substituted with another picture in which the role of the third sector is much more active and important.

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Voluntas: International Journal of Voluntary and Nonprofit Organizations , Volume 7 , Issue 2 , June 1996 , pp. 97 - 98
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Copyright © International Society for Third-Sector Research 1996

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References

Klausen, K.K. and Selle, P. (eds) (1995) Frivillig organisering i Norden, TANO and Dansk Jurist og Økonomforbunds Forlag, Oslo and Copenhagen.Google Scholar