Makrostyring – utvikling av en statlig styrings- og forvaltningspolitikk for velferdsstatens tjenester

The Norwegian welfare system is characterized by complexity in terms of different levels and relatively independent decision makers acting within a particular sector or service. At the same time different services are interrelated and mutual dependent, and the welfare system needs to be financial sustainable in the longer run. This chapter describes these complexities in detail and argue that contemporary governance procedures struggle to deal with them in a proper way. Inspired by academic literature on network governance and the belonging concept of “meta-governance”, the chapter then develops a typology of national macro-level governance which combined will be capable to deal with the complexities. The typology refers to four levels: a value level, a constitutional level, a strategic level and an operational level.