Author Description

We in the Western world are living in the welfare age and since the World War Two have been witnessing the enormous growth of organizations. Nowadays we are increasingly talking about bureaucratization of a whole society. This development has led to centralized and bureaucratized welfare models in both private and public organizations. This book's starting point is that the bureaucratic problems of public welfare organizations are the result of historical change and development. Using a method of empirical and historical comparison, and the data of Finland and the other Nordic countries, the author shows how the modern organized welfare model has been formed in government and local administration. The book includes the author's suggestion for a future administrative model. The theoretical tradition of the analysis is a sort of Weberian interpretation of Finland's welfare bureaucracy in a comparative setting.