Social policies are legislated nationally and implemented locally, and despite national attempts at vertical policy coordination, implementation varies. The aim of this article is to better understand variations in local implementation of national policies, emphasising, in particular, structural conditions. Our case is a legislative change in Norway that obliged municipalities to implement compulsory participation and conditionality for young recipients of social assistance. We conducted a comparative case study analysis in which, through 28 qualitative interviews, we compared six municipalities. We found that municipalities that have conceptualised compulsory participation as physical work and long hours in catch-all programmes are also the municipalities that sanction through benefit cuts. The municipalities that were more reluctant to cut benefits were those with the least straining requirements in terms of content and scope. We discuss local variation in terms of local-level path dependence, the size of the municipality and state supervision of municipalities.

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从国家激活立法到挪威的地方实践——为什么同一法律赋予不同的实践

社会政策由国家立法并在地方实施，尽管国家尝试进行纵向政策协调，但实施情况各不相同。本文的目的是更好地了解地方实施国家政策的变化，特别强调结构条件。我们的案例是挪威的一项立法改革，要求市政当局对年轻的社会援助接受者实施强制参与和附加条件。我们进行了比较案例研究分析，通过 28 次定性访谈，我们比较了六个城市。我们发现，将强制参与概念化为体力劳动和长时间参与包罗万象计划的市政当局也是通过削减福利进行制裁的市政当局。更不愿意削减福利的城市是那些在内容和范围方面要求最低的城市。我们从地方层面的路径依赖、市镇规模和国家对市镇的监督等方面讨论地方差异。