Even Lange
Even Lange is a professor emeritus at the Insitute for Archeaology, Conservation and History at the University of Oslo, and a contributor to norgehistorien.no. For more information about Even, click here.
Contributions to nordics.info
2020.09.07 | Article, Even Lange, Nation building
The Golden Age of social democracy in Norway
The Norwegian Labour Party (Arbeiderpartiet) was in power when the country was transformed into a wealthy society with modern welfare in the decade following the Second World War. However, the other parties supported major parts of the social democratic project as well. Reform-driven policy, planned modernisation and rapid economic growth were key…
![Election in Norway in 1945, where the man in the middle represents The Labour Party [Arbeiderpartiet], and the woman on the right supports The Conservative Party [Høyre] Source: The Norwegian National Library. Public Domain.](typo3temp/_processed_/csm_URN_NBN_no-nb_digifoto_20190507_00095_NB_HS_52_00044_A_773868a936.jpg "Picture showing five people standing on a line, each of them carrying a sign for one of the Norwegian political parties.")
2020.08.19 | Article, Even Lange, Nation building
The development of the Norwegian welfare state, 1945-1970
The vision of a welfare community that provided the people with social security from ‘cradle to grave’ was largely realised in the period between 1945 and 1970. The development of a Norwegian welfare state was part of broader international commitments to meet the need for social security in a modern society – with roots dating back to the late…