Per Selle
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 295727 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Per Selle |
| NOMBRES | Per |
| APELLIDO | Selle |
| FIRMA | SELLE P |
| AFILIACIONES | University of Bergen |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0070-7578 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 54 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 271 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 54 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1982 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 11 |
Internal cleavages and changing party system in indigenous politics – The Sámi Parliament of Norway
Indigenous politics is different from “normal” politics. It is about power within the state and against the state in which fragmentation is commonly seen as fragility. Political party competition is therefore extremely rare, and interests’ representation is generally not organized through political parties. In this article, we analyze a unique and deviant case – Norway – where Indigenous system-building develops thorough party politics based on i…
Indigenous People’s Self-governing Bodies and the Role of Civil Society
In this paper, the authors look at the relationship between the Sámi Parliament in Norway and the Sámi civil society as seen both from the perspective of the party leaders and representatives, the civil society organisations, and the voters. While strong civil societies are important in ensuring responsive democratic governance systems in general, they may be particularly important in a political system such as the Sámi. Sámi politics operates wi…
A Sami land‐claims settlement? Assessing Norway's Finnmark Act in a comparative perspective
The Sami, the Indigenous peoples of Fennoscandia, assert ownership‐, use‐, and management‐rights to their traditional lands. Norway's 2005 Finnmark Act is the only legislation so far to broadly respond to those assertions. How to interpret the act has long been contested, and is now the subject of a legal case before Norway's Supreme Court. Despite parallels between the land‐rights assertions of Sami and those of Indigenous peoples elsewhere, and…
Sámi agency in economic development processes in the Norwegian High North
The emergence of the Sámi Parliament has lifted Norwegian Sámi politics into an international discourse on indigenous peoples. The clearest imprints of the new Sámi political space are found in the High North region of Norway, where the Sámi account for a significant proportion of the population. The article shows to what extent and how Sámi agency affects governance structures and business development in the north in an increasingly globalised e…
Et rettighetsfellesskap
Artikkelen er inspirert av Stein Rokkans «impossibility theorem», som sier at integreringsmekanismene i den enkelte nasjonalstat er så omfattende at betingelsene for en sterk felles europeisk identitet med et institusjonelt politisk tillitsfellesskap ikke er mulig. Artikkelen snur blikket fra forholdet mellom den enkelte nasjonalstat og et overnasjonalt EU til betingelsene for nasjonsbygging på et samisk subnasjonalt nivå i en enhetsstat som Norg…
Economy, territory, and identity
Indigenous peoples throughout the circumpolar north have made significant progress in terms of securing self-determination through greater political autonomy. Although such change is important, it must be accompanied by greater economic control aimed at reducing state dependencies. Using an analytical framework developed by Norwegian political scientist, Stein Rokkan, this article explores the interplay between economy, territory, and identity am…
Samepolitikkens plass i utviklingsprosesseri nord
I løpet av de siste 30 årene har framveksten av Sametinget og andre samiske institusjoner løftet samepolitikken inn i en internasjonal urfolksdiskurs, hvor samiske rettigheter er styrket gjennom norsk støtte til internasjonale konvensjoner. De tydeligste avtrykkene av samepolitikken finnes i Finnmark, der samer utgjør en betydelig andel av befolkningen og Sametinget er lokalisert. Temaet for denne artikkelen er hvorvidt, og hvordan, samepolitikke…
Is Nonterritorial Autonomy Wrong for Indigenous Rights? Examining the ‘Territorialisation’ of Sami Power in Norway
Nonterritorial autonomy ( nta ) decouples governance of ‘people’ and ‘place’, allowing demographically submerged minorities to protect their cultural – but not territorial – interests. Indigenous peoples are often submerged and culturally vulnerable. At the same time, they are often especially interested in protecting the territories that have long sustained them. So, is nta well-suited or ill-suited for Indigenous self-governance? To explore thi…
Industrial development in the North – Sámi interests squeezed between globalization and tradition
In this article, we analyse tensions in Sámi local communities\nmeeting new industrial development. Indigenous communities\nexperience outmigration and are in need of new business\ndevelopment and employment. Global extractive companies may\noffer new jobs, but the type and scale of these jobs put pressure\non traditional indigenous livelihoods. The study underlines the\nimportance of two core ideal type Sámi positions – traditionalist\nand moder…
Urbanisering av det samiske elektoratet
Stemmeretten ved sametingsvalg i Norge er ikke knyttet til at en bor innenfor et bestemt geografisk område, men er en politisk rettighet som erverves på individuelt etnisk grunnlag, og som følger individet uavhengig av bosted. En raskt økende andel av Sametingets elektorat bor nå utenfor de tradisjonelle samiske bosettingsområdene, og svært mange bor i en by. Sametinget har likevel ikke utviklet en særegen bypolitikk, og Sametingets virkemiddelap…
Claims-Based Co-management in Norway's Arctic? Examining Sami Land Governance as a Case of Treaty Federalism–Erratum
Claims-Based Co-management in Norway's Arctic? Examining Sami Land Governance as a Case of Treaty Federalism
Around the world, Indigenous peoples seek increased control of traditional lands. In northern Canada, such control may be afforded by claims-based co-management regimes. Such regimes are a common, and sometimes celebrated, component of treaty federalism. In Norway, Europe's only Indigenous people, the Sami, now participate in a land-management regime: the Finnmark Estate (FeFo). We explore whether FeFo is, in effect, claims-based co-management an…
The Sámi
This article explores the case of the Sámi in the Nordic countries, with a specific focus on the most extensive Sámi political system, that found in Norway. The Norwegian Sámi parliament is an indigenous parliament in a unitary and ‘state-friendly’ society. As will be seen, that is not an easy position to be in. While most of the Sámi are concentrated in the most northern part of Norway, the Sámi language has a general protection by law. The lang…
Citizenship identity among Norwegian Sami in core Sami areas
This analysis of citizenship identity among Sami living in core Sami areas in Norway clearly shows that the Sami population feel more closely connected to their local communities than is the case for non-Sami living in the same areas and for the Norwegian populace as a whole. Some significant differences also emerge as regards citizenship identity between Sami who have chosen to be registered in the Sami electoral roster and those who are not reg…
Commentary on Geys
Reform Strategies Matter
Udgivelsesdato: 2012
The Formation and Transformation of Preferences
Civil Society Theory
Cultural Theory as Political Science
This is the first major European political science book to discuss the growing interdisciplinary field of 'cultural theory', proposing a coherent and viable alternative to mainstream political science. The authors argue that three elements - social relations, cultural bias and behavioural strategy - illuminate political questions at a level of analysis on any scale: from the household to the state; the international regime to the political party
Community, Types of
Commentary
This special issue's emphasis on the need for integrating the research on volunteering and political activism, and participation and volunteering in voluntary organizations and social movements, is
Sámi Citizenship
In accordance with international conventions the Sámi is an indigenous group belonging to two populations and two overlapping civil societies within one nation state. This situation not only influences Sámi political interests and activities in general, but it also affects the individual Sámi's political orientation and decisions. Nevertheless, no thorough study has been conducted, on the individual level, of Sámi political participation and invo…
Why social democracy is not a civil society regime in Norway
The Scandinavian voluntary sectors are often labelled as 'social democratic'. 1 1. T. Janoski, Citizenship and Civil Society (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998); L. M. Salamon and H. K. Anheier, 'Social origins of civil society: explaining the non-profit sector cross-nationally', Voluntas, 9(3) (1998), pp. 213–247. Does this help us make sense of their main characteristics and evolution? And what type of civil society are we talking abo…
Environmentalism between state and local community
Although Norway is often seen as an environmental forerunner with an extensive voluntary sector, the internationally successful environmental organisation Greenpeace has never managed to establish a viable organisation there. The explanation for this lies in a Norwegian political culture that includes two distinct culturally embedded anomalies that configure a specific type of environmentalism. The first anomaly is Norway's state-friendly society…
A social democratic model of civil society
Participation and Social Capital Formation
Voluntary associations are often ascribed a fundamental role in the formation of social capital. However, scholars disagree on the extent to which face‐to‐face contact, i.e. active participation, is necessary to create this resource. The impact of participation in associations on social capital is examined using three dimensions: intensity (active vs. passive participation), scope (many vs. few affiliations) and type (non‐political vs. political …
Membership in Party Organizations and the Problem of Decline of Parties
This article questions assumptions in the literature dealing with party decline. First, European aggregate membership data do not support a general conclusion of party decline. Second, individual-level data for Norway demonstrate the complexities of the relationship between membership, party identification, activity in parties, and membership stability. Third, we discuss societal changes commonly associated with party decline, such as the rise of…
The third sector in Scandinavia
This article argues that it is possible to identify a particular Scandinavian third sector model. In contrast to what might generally be expected in view of the relatively huge public sectors of Denmark, Norway and Sweden, the third sector in this model is neither small nor insignificant. Its constituent traits are rooted in history, in popular movements and in trust-based mutual dependency between third sector organisations and public authoritie…
Cultural Theory and the New Institutionalism
In addressing concepts like rationality, functionalism and preference formation, various branches of the new institutionalism are `united by little but a common scepticism towards atomistic accounts of social processes and a common conviction that institutional arrangements and social processes matter'. Great bulks of neoinstitutional thinking are also found within cultural theory which as yet have hardly been acknowledged by the neoinstitutional…
Origins of Social Capital
How is social capital generated and sustained? In Putnam's micro-oriented socialization perspective, the main source is face-to-face interaction between members of voluntary organizations. This has so far met little empirical support. Consequently, macro-oriented scholars have concluded that organizations are unimportant to social capital formation. We argue that voluntary organizations do play a pivotal role, not as socialization agents, but as …
Power and Democracy in Norway
The Norwegian Power and Democracy Project concluded that the parliamentary chain of government is weakened in every link; parties and election are less mobilizing; minority governments imply that the connection between election results and policy formation is broken; and elected assemblies have been suffering a notable loss of domain. Popular participation has moved from long‐term organisations and political parties to short‐term action groups an…
The Sámi
This article explores the case of the Sámi in the Nordic countries, with a specific focus on the most extensive Sámi political system, that found in Norway. The Norwegian Sámi parliament is an indigenous parliament in a unitary and ‘state-friendly’ society. As will be seen, that is not an easy position to be in. While most of the Sámi are concentrated in the most northern part of Norway, the Sámi language has a general protection by law. The lang…
Reform Strategies Matter
Udgivelsesdato: 2012
The Rise and Fall of Popular Mass Movements
This article is about the erosion of the Norwegian democratic infrastructure, with particular emphasis on the causes and effects of the transformation of the voluntary sector and the decline of social movements. We are seeing a turning away from large-scale ideological mass movements and an increase in smaller and nimbler associations that are better at catering for individual needs and wishes, but poorer in plugging members into the central deci…
State and citizens in Norway
In this article we argue that two of the most crucial parts of the Norwegian democratic infrastructure – the civil society, consisting of voluntary associations, and local governments – are experiencing problems. From being institutions for popular influence and participation, they may now be enjoying less autonomy and power. First, we see a turning away from the ideological mass movements and a greater interest in smaller and single-purpose asso…
The eroding of representative democracy in Norway
The Norwegian Power and Democracy Study concluded that representative government is eroding. Popular participation has moved from long-term organizations and political parties to short-term action groups and associations with immediate concerns. Public sector reforms seem to weaken municipal autonomy and strengthen central control in emphasizing greater efficiency and better quality of municipal service provision. The judicialization of politics …
The Local Party Organization and Its Members
In this article we shall argue the importance of approaching the relationship between party organizations and party members by analyzing the interaction between characteristics of the national party system, the party organization as a more or less open or closed system, and the resources of individuals particularly conducive to party membership. We shall mainly discuss the organizational level, taking as a starting point different models from org…
Sámi Citizenship
In accordance with international conventions the Sámi is an indigenous group belonging to two populations and two overlapping civil societies within one nation state. This situation not only influences Sámi political interests and activities in general, but it also affects the individual Sámi's political orientation and decisions. Nevertheless, no thorough study has been conducted, on the individual level, of Sámi political participation and invo…
Voluntary organisations and the welfare state
Taking as the point of departure the political-ideological and fiscal ‘crises of the welfare state’, this article emphasises recent changes in the relationship between voluntary organisations and the public sector in Norway, changes that open up new space for the voluntary sector both ideologically and as a service producer. We question whether voluntary organisations are able to cope with new and extensive welfare problems within the more decent…
Culture and the Study of Politics
This article is an introduction to a new and promising alternative to dominant reductionistic, utilitarian and instrumental political theories. ‘Cultural Theory’, or ‘Grid‐Group’ analysis has been developed by the British anthropologist Mary Douglas and transferred to political science by the American political scientist Aaron Wildavsky. Starting from two dimensions ‐ ‘group’ (group strength) and ‘grid’ (the number of rules that influence the ind…
Why social democracy is not a civil society regime in Norway
The Scandinavian voluntary sectors are often labelled as 'social democratic'. 1 1. T. Janoski, Citizenship and Civil Society (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998); L. M. Salamon and H. K. Anheier, 'Social origins of civil society: explaining the non-profit sector cross-nationally', Voluntas, 9(3) (1998), pp. 213–247. Does this help us make sense of their main characteristics and evolution? And what type of civil society are we talking abo…
A social democratic model of civil society
Organized Environmentalists
This article, taking as its point of departure that voluntary organizations are of crucial importance in a democracy, views the transformation of the Norwegian voluntary sector through the lenses of what happens within the environmental field. Seeing changes within this field as prototypical for the transformation of the voluntary sector more generally, we start with the organizational level and contrast old versus new environmental organizations…
Structure and Social Action in Stein Rokkan's Work
The article discusses Stein Rokkan's research strategy, i.e. that of retrospectively explaining structural variations, in the light of the crucial problem of modern social science, namely: how to reconcile the sociology of structures and the sociology of action. The authors' hypothesis is that Rokkan, who takes as his point of departure how contexts influence and guide human action does not succeed in his efforts to combine these levels of analys…
Environmentalism between state and local community
Although Norway is often seen as an environmental forerunner with an extensive voluntary sector, the internationally successful environmental organisation Greenpeace has never managed to establish a viable organisation there. The explanation for this lies in a Norwegian political culture that includes two distinct culturally embedded anomalies that configure a specific type of environmentalism. The first anomaly is Norway's state-friendly society…
The Norwegian Communist Party in the Immediate Postwar Period
The main purpose of this article is to argue the importance of combining several approaches in studies of communist parties: socio‐economic structures, competitive relations to other left wing parties, organizational implantation, and the role of political tradition. The present ecological analysis will particularly emphasize the organizational approach and the importance of political tradition. In keeping with Allardt's and Lipset's theories, so…
Industrial development in the North – Sámi interests squeezed between globalization and tradition
In this article, we analyse tensions in Sámi local communities\nmeeting new industrial development. Indigenous communities\nexperience outmigration and are in need of new business\ndevelopment and employment. Global extractive companies may\noffer new jobs, but the type and scale of these jobs put pressure\non traditional indigenous livelihoods. The study underlines the\nimportance of two core ideal type Sámi positions – traditionalist\nand moder…
Claims-Based Co-management in Norway's Arctic? Examining Sami Land Governance as a Case of Treaty Federalism
Around the world, Indigenous peoples seek increased control of traditional lands. In northern Canada, such control may be afforded by claims-based co-management regimes. Such regimes are a common, and sometimes celebrated, component of treaty federalism. In Norway, Europe's only Indigenous people, the Sami, now participate in a land-management regime: the Finnmark Estate (FeFo). We explore whether FeFo is, in effect, claims-based co-management an…
Citizenship identity among Norwegian Sami in core Sami areas
This analysis of citizenship identity among Sami living in core Sami areas in Norway clearly shows that the Sami population feel more closely connected to their local communities than is the case for non-Sami living in the same areas and for the Norwegian populace as a whole. Some significant differences also emerge as regards citizenship identity between Sami who have chosen to be registered in the Sami electoral roster and those who are not reg…
Commentary on Geys
The Norwegian Communist Party in the Immediate Postwar Period
The main purpose of this article is to argue the importance of combining several approaches in studies of communist parties: socio‐economic structures, competitive relations to other left wing parties, organizational implantation, and the role of political tradition. The present ecological analysis will particularly emphasize the organizational approach and the importance of political tradition. In keeping with Allardt's and Lipset's theories, so…
The Local Party Organization and Its Members
In this article we shall argue the importance of approaching the relationship between party organizations and party members by analyzing the interaction between characteristics of the national party system, the party organization as a more or less open or closed system, and the resources of individuals particularly conducive to party membership. We shall mainly discuss the organizational level, taking as a starting point different models from org…
Explaining Communist Voting
Norwegian and Catalan Communism
The application of a model of Communist voting to two rather different geographical and historical contexts yielded varying empirical results. The model, composed of traditional socioeconomic explanatory variables as well as organizational and historical variables, proved fruitful in the Norwegian case, much less so in the Catalan case. This difference in explanatory power may be understood in terms of varying levels of modernization. Models of e…
Cultural policy, leisure and voluntary organizations in Norway
This article argues that the new Norwegian cultural policy, launched in the mid 1970s, strongly emphasizing cultural democracy and administrative decentralization, has had important unintended consequences. Stressing the value of activity as a crucial part of the new ‘comprehensive concept of culture’, the policy has supported exactly those tendencies it was meant to counteract, i.e. cultural standardization, individualism, privatisation and comm…
The role of voluntary social welfare organisations in Norway
Taking as a point of departure the postulated political-ideological and fiscal ‘crisis of the welfare state’, this article emphasises recent changes in the relationship between the four sectors of welfare providers: the informal sector of the family or community; the for-profit sector — where social goods are offered by profit-seeking institutions; the formalised sector of voluntary organisations; and the public sector of statutory bodies. Discus…
Structure and Social Action in Stein Rokkan's Work
The article discusses Stein Rokkan's research strategy, i.e. that of retrospectively explaining structural variations, in the light of the crucial problem of modern social science, namely: how to reconcile the sociology of structures and the sociology of action. The authors' hypothesis is that Rokkan, who takes as his point of departure how contexts influence and guide human action does not succeed in his efforts to combine these levels of analys…
It Must Have Something to do with ‘Logic
Culture and the Study of Politics
This article is an introduction to a new and promising alternative to dominant reductionistic, utilitarian and instrumental political theories. ‘Cultural Theory’, or ‘Grid‐Group’ analysis has been developed by the British anthropologist Mary Douglas and transferred to political science by the American political scientist Aaron Wildavsky. Starting from two dimensions ‐ ‘group’ (group strength) and ‘grid’ (the number of rules that influence the ind…
Membership in Party Organizations and the Problem of Decline of Parties
This article questions assumptions in the literature dealing with party decline. First, European aggregate membership data do not support a general conclusion of party decline. Second, individual-level data for Norway demonstrate the complexities of the relationship between membership, party identification, activity in parties, and membership stability. Third, we discuss societal changes commonly associated with party decline, such as the rise of…
Values Count but Institutions Decide
This article presents the major characteristics of the tradition of comparative political sociology which Stein Rokkan incarnated. Special emphasis is put on Rokkan's scientific reasoning based on the organic relationship between the creation of infrastructures for research and research efforts. Rokkan'soeuvreis marked by an acute awareness of the historical sources of institutional variation and by a concern for constructing region‐specific mode…
Voluntary organisations and the welfare state
Taking as the point of departure the political-ideological and fiscal ‘crises of the welfare state’, this article emphasises recent changes in the relationship between voluntary organisations and the public sector in Norway, changes that open up new space for the voluntary sector both ideologically and as a service producer. We question whether voluntary organisations are able to cope with new and extensive welfare problems within the more decent…
Government and Voluntary Organizations
Examines the role of voluntary organizations in the welfare sector and their relations to public welfare schemes. The text also examines voluntary organizations and their relations to government and public policies
Cultural Theory and the New Institutionalism
In addressing concepts like rationality, functionalism and preference formation, various branches of the new institutionalism are `united by little but a common scepticism towards atomistic accounts of social processes and a common conviction that institutional arrangements and social processes matter'. Great bulks of neoinstitutional thinking are also found within cultural theory which as yet have hardly been acknowledged by the neoinstitutional…
The third sector in Scandinavia
This article argues that it is possible to identify a particular Scandinavian third sector model. In contrast to what might generally be expected in view of the relatively huge public sectors of Denmark, Norway and Sweden, the third sector in this model is neither small nor insignificant. Its constituent traits are rooted in history, in popular movements and in trust-based mutual dependency between third sector organisations and public authoritie…
Organized Environmentalists
This article, taking as its point of departure that voluntary organizations are of crucial importance in a democracy, views the transformation of the Norwegian voluntary sector through the lenses of what happens within the environmental field. Seeing changes within this field as prototypical for the transformation of the voluntary sector more generally, we start with the organizational level and contrast old versus new environmental organizations…
Does Participation in Voluntary Associations Contribute to Social Capital? The Impact of Intensity, Scope, and Type
Voluntary associations are often ascribed a fundamental role in the formation of social capital. However, scholars disagree on the extent to which face-to-face contact, that is, active participation, is necessary to create this resource. This article examines the impact of participation in associations on social capital using three dimensions: intensity (active vs. passive participation), scope (many vs. few affiliations) and type (nonpolitical v…
Cultural Theory as Political Science
Participation and Social Capital Formation
Voluntary associations are often ascribed a fundamental role in the formation of social capital. However, scholars disagree on the extent to which face‐to‐face contact, i.e. active participation, is necessary to create this resource. The impact of participation in associations on social capital is examined using three dimensions: intensity (active vs. passive participation), scope (many vs. few affiliations) and type (non‐political vs. political …
Hvorfor studere sosial kapital i Norge
State and citizens in Norway
In this article we argue that two of the most crucial parts of the Norwegian democratic infrastructure – the civil society, consisting of voluntary associations, and local governments – are experiencing problems. From being institutions for popular influence and participation, they may now be enjoying less autonomy and power. First, we see a turning away from the ideological mass movements and a greater interest in smaller and single-purpose asso…
Unique Environmentalism
This book explains and demonstrates how the Norwegian case of environmentalism is unique. The two connected anomalies of an inclusive and state friendly society and a strong orientation and commitment to local communities make the case stand apart from mainstream international definitions of environmentalism. The authors study a specific political culture with a rather unique combination of state structure and civil society of which organized env…
Forfall eller forandring
Power and Democracy in Norway
The Norwegian Power and Democracy Project concluded that the parliamentary chain of government is weakened in every link; parties and election are less mobilizing; minority governments imply that the connection between election results and policy formation is broken; and elected assemblies have been suffering a notable loss of domain. Popular participation has moved from long‐term organisations and political parties to short‐term action groups an…
The eroding of representative democracy in Norway
The Norwegian Power and Democracy Study concluded that representative government is eroding. Popular participation has moved from long-term organizations and political parties to short-term action groups and associations with immediate concerns. Public sector reforms seem to weaken municipal autonomy and strengthen central control in emphasizing greater efficiency and better quality of municipal service provision. The judicialization of politics …
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