Sture Korpi (16 November 1939 – 12 March 2017) was a Swedish politician, member of Swedish Social Democratic Party, who was a
secretary of state at the
Ministry of Health and Social Affairs between 1982 and 1991.
Korpi worked as a social secretary in Stockholm and was the information secretary to Minister of Social Affairs Sven Aspling in 1965–1976, and the head of department at the Swedish Social Insurance Agency in 1976–1982. In 1982–1991, he was the state secretary in the Ministry of Social Affairs. From 1993 to 2004, he was director general of the Norwegian Institutions Board.
Korpi is buried at the Northern Cemetery outside Stockholm.
He was the brother of
Walter Korpi
Walter Korpi ( Koutojärvi, Sweden, 1934) is a Swedish sociologist.
Korpi is a pioneer of power resource theory. Together with the Swedish politician and sociologist Joakim Palme, he wrote the work "The Paradox of Redistribution and Strategies ...
.
Bibliography
* Korpi, Sture (1970). Låt oss slippa insamlingar!. Tidskrift för allmän försäkring, 99-0436700-0 ; 1970:11. Stockholm.
* Korpi Sture, red (1971). Socialpolitiken under 50 år: Socialdepartementet 1920-1970. Stockholm.
* Korpi, Sture (2007-01-01). SOU 2007:2 Från socialbidrag till arbete. Regeringskansliet, Socialdepartementet. SOU 2007:2.
ISBN 978-91-38-22682-7.
References
1939 births
2017 deaths
Swedish politicians
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