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Top managerial role in transition – or not? Trajectories during 20 years in Swedish local government.
- 2019
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Ingår i: Paper presented at IRSPM, Wellington, Nya Zeeland 16-19 April.
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Konferensbidrag (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- The relationship between politics and administration in local government organizations has been under discussion for many decades. During these decades the relationship has transformed, for example as an effect of NPM reforms. Also the roles of the actors that work primarily in the zone between politics and administration can be expected to have changed. We focus on the development of a top managerial role in Sweden: the municipal CEO. The main question we answer in this paper is: In what ways has the role of the CEO of Swedish municipalities changed over the past two decades? We have conducted exhaustive surveys of Swedish municipal CEOs every five years starting in 1995 and the latest conducted in 2015. Our results show that the changes are most prominent in terms of background variables. The changes in the role may be summarized as: increasingly managing line relationships, financial issues, organizational processes as well as the development of society – and this together with the mayor.
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E-Participation: informing and transforming local government decision making
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Ingår i: Rahman, Hakikur (ed.) Handbook of Research on E-Government Readiness for Information and Service Exchange: Utilizing Progressive Information Communication Technologies. - Hershey, PA. USA : Information Science Reference. - 9781605666716
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- Chapter 13 examines the extent to which progressive e-participation practice interacts with local government decision making and contributes to the espoused benefits of citizen participation. The chapter, further argues that e-participation can positively contribute to community capabilities, political relevance, better problem identification, and assist in finding more relevant solutions.
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People Plan their Park: Voice and Choice through Participatory Budgeting
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Ingår i: International Journal of Interdisciplinary Social Sciences. - 1833-1882. ; 6:5, s. 185-198
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This practice-based case study explores the means (structures and processes) and ends (objectives and outcomes) of a participatory budgeting program in which citizens in a Swedish local government (kommun) plan an important park. Participatory budgeting is about engaging community members in discussions about spending priorities, and in the development and choice of spending proposals. Such programs are part of a wider ideal and practice in which local governments worldwide increasingly undertake initiatives (e.g. citizen panels, referendums, and town hall meetings) to connect with their citizens so that the community can have a say in the things that really matter to it. Good budgeting by governments decreases risks and increases the prospects for good decision making and robust accountability, and participatory budgeting can be powerful device for change since budgeting provides a central process and structure for planning, implementation, control, evaluation, learning, and adaptation in government policy and action. This case study reveals the degree to which this program provides ends to do with good decisions, improved government capability, and enhanced community capacity-and interrogates the reliance on political ownership, managerial buy-in and experience, and the use of external consultants.
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Values versus Voice in Local Government: How Management Values Align with Giving Voice to Citizens
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Ingår i: International Journal of Interdisciplinary Social Sciences. ; 3:2, s. 161-170
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- Effective community engagement by local governments has the potential to facilitate citizens, individually and collectively, in using their knowledge and capacity to shape their lives and communities, and can help provide better decisions, better citizens and better government. However, there is a gap in our understanding of the degree to which the current values held by management in local governments are compatible with the concept of community engagement and its operationalisation. This paper uses a model to test the values of chief financial officers (CFOs - as key managerial gatekeepers) and the compatibility of these with what is required to facilitate citizen participation in government decision making. The findings note that whilst there is a considerable degree of misalignment between council attributes now and what is conducive for effective community engagement initiatives, CFOs have a view for the future values in local government that better support citizen participation in the work of government. In particular, CFOs have acknowledged the desirability of displacing professional and bureaucratic ideas that can limit community engagement with more supportive entrepreneurial and planning ideals.
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Diskriminering inom Försvarsmakten - en intersektionell analys
- 2011
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Rapport (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Från och med första januari 2009 gäller diskrimineringslagen i Sverige vilken förbjuder diskriminering som har samband med kön, könsöverskridande identitet eller uttryck, etnisk tillhörighet, religion eller annan trosuppfattning, funktionshinder, sexuell läggning eller ålder. I samband med detta har Försvarsmakten efterfrågat en kartläggning rörande diskrimineringsgrunderna bland Försvarets anställda. Kartläggningen kom att genomföras som enkät där egna upplevelser av kränkningar relaterade till diskrimineringsgrunderna jämfördes med upplevelser av att andra kränkts. I analysen har intersektionella perspektiv eftersträvats. De har genomförts så att inledningsvis har varje diskrimineringsgrund analyserats var för sig, därefter har intersektioner i relation till andra grunder och anställningsform sökts. Som framgår av bifogad rapport var ålder den kränkning som flest personer hade upplevt, mer precist 13,1 procent av de som besvarat enkäten. Det var också den diskrimineringsgrund som omgivningen reagerade minst på. 24,1 procent av de svarande kvinnorna hade upplevt diskriminering på grund av kön, vilket kan jämföras med 3,3 procent av männen. I genomsnitt hade 7,9 procent av de anställda upplevt diskriminering på grund av kön. Det samlade antalet kränkningar som upplevt var 2407. Av dessa hade 680 personer upplevt dubbel diskriminering, till exempel hade 175 personer upplevt diskriminering grundad på både kön och ålder, medan 23 personer hade upplevt diskriminering grundad på både religion eller annan trosuppfattning och sexuell läggning. Huruvida detta är höga eller låga siffror kan inte besvaras då vi i skrivande stund inte känner till liknande studier av alla diskrimineringsgrunder som riktats till alla anställda i en organisation. Studien är tänkt att upprepas inom två år och det kommer då att möjliggöra vidare jämförelser.
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