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Sport Clubs in Norway

2015; Springer International Publishing; Linguagem: Inglês

10.1007/978-3-319-17635-2_17

2191-2998

Ørnulf Seippel, Eivind Å. Skille,

Nonprofit Sector and Volunteering

This chapter is about sport clubs in Norway. Norway is a constitutional monarchy with about five million inhabitants. It is part of the Scandinavian tradition of social democratic welfare states which comprises both a strong state and a relatively large civil sector (Esping-Andersen 1990). The largest proportion of the civil sector is voluntary sport organisations (Seippel 2008; Ibsen and Seippel 2010, Sivesind 2012). In this chapter Norwegian sport clubs are first presented as a historical phenomenon and as part of an context. Then there are two main sections: on the role of sport clubs in policy and society, and on the characteristics of sport clubs. Next, we discuss a central characteristic of Norwegian sport as the special topic, namely, the close and intricate state–sport relationship and some current trends challenging this relationship. We end the chapter with a conclusion.