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- Nelson, Kenneth, et al.
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ESPN Thematic Report on minimum income schemes : Sweden 2015
- 2016
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Rapport (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Most benefits and transfers in Sweden are based on individual entitlements and are administered at the national level. In such cases, the eligibility criteria and entitlement levels are uniform throughout the country. The only scheme in Sweden that qualifies as a minimum income benefit is the social assistance programme (Ekonomiskt Bistånd/Försörjningsstöd), which targets people in households that lack sufficient means to support themselves – not just work income, but also access to contributory social insurance benefits. Unlike most other benefits and transfers, eligibility for social assistance is thus determined at the level of the household. One way or another, social assistance defines the ‘floor’ of the Swedish welfare state: its explicit purpose is to provide an economic standard below which no one, in principle, should be able to fall. In Sweden, social assistance is a true system of last resort. As such, it is not used as a passport to other benefits. Rather the opposite applies.The basic scale rates of social assistance are set nationally, but financing and administration is at the local municipality level. Sweden has 290 municipalities, and in terms of implementation, these have substantial leeway. They are allowed to pay more, but not less.People receiving social assistance are obliged to seek work (if possible) and to participate in active labour market programmes. The duration of social assistance is unlimited, and payments are made as long as eligibility conditions are met.When it comes to the adequacy of social assistance, we can note two important aspects: a) the level of adequacy compared to the at-risk-of-poverty (AROP) threshold is poor; b) viewed over the last 10 to 15 years, there has been a gradual decline in adequacy levels. The first point is evident from the fact that social assistance levels are quite far from the 60% poverty threshold for all family types analysed. The declining trend is somewhat less evident after the 2008 crisis, at least for families with children.Take-up rates have been roughly stable over the past few years, as has the number of long-term recipients – though that figure is much larger today than before the severe recession in Sweden in the early 1990s.Sweden has not implemented any so-called one-stop shops, which provide a common entry to all social benefits and services. Instead, emphasis is placed on cooperation between public authorities at different levels of government, in order to foster greater coordination. Such coordinated actions may be hindered by the fact that different benefit and service systems operate at different governance levels. We would note that back in 2012, only a small fraction of municipalities in Sweden had written guidelines for cooperation between the local Social Welfare Agency and state-organised offices and agencies. If Sweden decides to continue with its attempts to foster coordination and cooperation, rather than one-stop shops, it would seem to us to be a minimum requirement that such guidelines should be developed right across the country.
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- Nelson, Karin, 1960
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Improvisation and Pedagogy through Heinrich Scheidemann's Magnificat Settings
- 2010
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Doktorsavhandling (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- ABSTRACT Doctoral dissertation in musicology, artistic-creative programme, University of Gothenburg, Sweden 2010, 302 pages Author: Karin Nelson Title: Improvisation and Pedagogy through Heinrich Scheidemann’s Magnificat Settings. Language: English Department: Department of Cultural Scienses Series: Skrifter från musikvetenskap, Göteborgs universitet, Nº 96 ISBN 978-91-85974-12-2. ISSN 1654-6261. © Karin Nelson, 2010 Keywords: Alternatim, Amsterdam, composition, Hamburg, improvisation, Luther, Magnificat, notation, Paumann, pedagogy, Scheidemann, St. Catharinen, Sweelinck, Weckmann. The general topic of this thesis concerns the purpose of musical notation in an historical period during which organists were famous predominantly for their improvisational abilities. The aim of the study is to determine how the 17th century organist in North Germany learned to improvise, and to compare this method to our method today. As a case study, Heinrich Scheidemann’s Magnificat settings from the 17th-century manuscript Ze1 have been analyzed. The verses in Scheidemann’s Magnificat settings demonstrate a variety of improvisational techniques, and they have a clear structure that is easy to copy. It is proposed in the thesis that these verses were meant to be used pedagogically, in contrast to the two anonymous settings which lack this regular structure. The process of teaching improvisation and a musical style by means of notated compositions was common in the 17th century. Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck’s keyboard composi¬tions also are advanced in the study as possible educational materials. Different uses of notation are considered, including the practice of a number of prominent com¬posers to begin their creative process by departing from the notated score of another composer. The history of the Magnificat, its context and use in the early Lutheran church is also discussed. Different approaches to improvisation are described, both from a historical perspective and from the author’s point of view, including her collaboration with other musicians. The conclusion of this study is that Scheidemann’s Magnificat settings in Ze1 were intended as pedagogical models, which could be used to demonstrate improvisational techniques over the Magnificat theme as well as improvisation in general. It is also concluded that the two anonymous Magnificat settings in Ze1, which until now have been attributed to Scheidemann, are not written by him. The study shows several similarities and differences between the way organists in the 17th century in North Germany learned to improvise in comparison with contemporary improvisers.
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- Nelson, Kenneth, 1971-
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Minimum Income Protection and Low-Income Standards: Is Social Assistance Enough for Poverty Alleviation?
- 2009
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Rapport (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Minimum income protection and social assistance is the last-resort safety net of the welfare state, targeted to the most vulnerable groups in society. Poverty alleviation is thus one chief objective of such benefits. Whether this objective is fulfilled is continuously discussed and debated. This paper provide new evidence on this issue and offers an analysis of social assistance benefit levels in 16 industrialized welfare democracies over the period 1990-2000. It is shown that the period 1990-1995 was characterized primarily by stagnated benefit levels, while in the latter half of the 1990s benefits declined. In most countries, social assistance fails to provide income above the poverty threshold, something that makes it difficult to view these benefits as effective redistributive instruments.
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- Nelson, Karin, 1960
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Orgelkonsert i Marktkirche
- 2017
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Ingår i: 22 april 2017, Hannover.
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Konstnärligt arbete (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Konsert med orgelrepertoar från 5 sekler innehållande musik av Düben, Scheidemann, Nitauff, Reger, Hambraeus, Fryklöf, Nelson. En reflektion över processen bifogas som inkluderar både förberedelsen och genomförandet.
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