Scandinavian Civil Society and Social Transformations ― The Case of Norway

This book aims at presenting a conceptual apparatus and empirical analysis of the ways Nordic civil society is affected by social transformations by focusing on the Norwegian case. The Norwegian empirical focus allows identifying processes and factors of change that are relevant outside this context and enable us to understand, on a more general basis, the relationship between social transformations and transformations affecting the voluntary sector.

?Bernard Enjolras is a Research Professor at the Institute for Social Research in Oslo. He is Director of the Center for Research on Civil Society and Voluntary Sector. He has been the coordinator of the EU-FP7 project Third Sector Impact and Editor-in-Chief of Voluntas International Journal of Voluntary and Nonprofit Organizations (ISTR, Springer), as well as Deputy Director and Research Director at the Institute for Social research (2006-2014). His research interests are related to different aspects of civil society and the third sector, public policies and governance issues, civic and political engagement, social media and digitalization, terror and trust, and freedom of speech. He holds a Ph.D. in Sociology, from the University of Quebec in Montreal (Canada) and a Ph.D in Economics from the University of Paris I. Pantheon-Sorbonne (France). He also is a graduate from the Institut d'Etudes Politiques de Paris (Sciences-po).