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- Berglund Snodgrass, Lina, 1980-, et al.
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Organizing cross-sectoral housing provision planning : settings, problems and knowledge
- 2021
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Ingår i: European Planning Studies. - : Routledge. - 0965-4313 .- 1469-5944. ; 29:5, s. 862-882
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- In the governance of housing provision, the public sector is considered unable efficiently to manage such problems through the traditional bureaucratic organizations and associated governing tools. Instead, municipalities are expected to engage in collaborative processes across sectors and with external stakeholders, with the overarching objective to deliver more efficient planning outcomes. As the processes are carried out across sectors, it opens up the opportunity to privilege certain sectors’ perspectives and marginalize others. By drawing from Mouffe's agonistic political theories, this article makes an empirical account of the political in organizing cross-sectoral collaborative planning in Swedish municipalities, with the empirical example of developing municipal programmes for housing provision. The article concludes that social service is severely marginalized in what is generally a depoliticized housing provision planning process. Underpinning the collaboration is the conceptualizing of housing provision as primarily a general deficit in constructing housing. Primarily organizing objectivist knowledge, housing provision is constructed as a technical and procedural matter rather than ideological and political. Through such organizing principles, the overarching housing provision problem remains undealt with, e.g. how do we provide housing to ‘all’ our citizens?
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- Berglund‐snodgrass, Lina, et al.
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A Healthy City for All? Social Services’ Roles in Collaborative Urban Development
- 2022
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Ingår i: Urban Planning. - : Cogitatio Press. - 2183-7635. ; 7:4, s. 113-123
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- There is broad consensus among policymakers about the urgency of developing healthy, inclusive, and socially sustainable cities. In the Swedish context, social services are considered to have knowledge that needs to be integrated into the broader urban development processes in order to accomplish such ends. This article aims to better understand the ways in which social service officials collaborate in urban development processes for developing the social dimensions of healthy cities. We draw from neo‐institutional theories, which set out actors (e.g., social service officials) as acting according to a logic of appropriateness, which means that actors do what they see as appropriate for themselves in a specific type of situation. Based on semi‐structured interviews with social services officials in 10 Swedish municipalities on their experiences of collaboration in the development of housing and living environments for people with psychiatric disabilities, we identified that they act based on (a) a pragmatic rule of conduct through the role of the problem solver, (b) a bureaucratic rule of conduct through the role of the knowledge provider, and (c) activist rule of conduct through the role of the advo-cator. In these roles, they have little authority in the development processes, and are unable to set the agenda for the social dimensions of healthy cities but act as the moral consciousness by looking out for everyone’s right to equal living conditions in urban development. © 2022 by the author(s); licensee Cogitatio (Lisbon, Portugal).
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- Fjellfeldt, Maria, 1976-
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Choice as governance in community mental health services
- 2017
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Doktorsavhandling (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- In 2009, the Act on Freedom of Choice Systems (SFS 2008:962) wasestablished in Sweden, and this enabled municipalities to organise services aschoice models. This thesis describes and analyses the implementation of afreedom of choice system within community mental health services. Daycentre services were in focus, and a case study was conducted of a majormunicipality that sought to be a “world-class city” in regard to citizens’ choice.The experiences of policy makers, managers, professionals, and participantswere explored in interviews, and documents on a national, municipal, and citydistrict level, as well as homepages of providers of community mental healthservices, were all part of the study and were analysed using content-analysismethods.The results showed that the freedom of choice system aimed for two objectives– improvements at the individual level and financial efficiency. In practice,financial efficiency was experienced as the main objective. Increased varietyof services was aimed for by the competitive model, but such variety was notobserved. Instead, services tended to be more similar than specialised.Concerning new providers, they were characterised as committedprofessionals running companies with strained economies. Participantsaffected by the reform expressed anxiety and worries due to theunpredictability and uncertainty embedded in the competitive choice model.Choice within the system concerned where to go, whereas participantsemphasised a wish to be able to influence the choice aspects of who carriedout the service and how much time to attend the services.The conclusion was that the freedom of choice system was implemented as atechnology of governance to increase financial efficiency of services.Individual choice was not experienced as increased in any aspect except forthe choice of where to go. Instead, freedom of choice actually appeared todecrease due to standardisation and hierarchical structures. Aspects that werefound to be relevant when designing freedom of choice systems aiming toincrease individual freedom of choice were to address predictability andcontinuity, to address sustainable financial premises, to analyse the predictedimpact of administrative systems that are to be used, and to avoid the use of“hidden goals” in the policy-making process.
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- Fjellfeldt, Maria, et al.
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Competing Logics and Idealistic Professionalism : Development of a Swedish Community Mental Health Serivce Market
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Annan publikation (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- The aim of this study was to explore the longitudinal development of an organisational fieldafter the implementation of a freedom-of-choice system in terms of the range and characteristicsof providers and services as well as the dynamics and professionalism that appeared as a resultof these changes. Our findings suggest that the expected effects of the reform in terms of varietyof providers and services within the organizational field did not materialise due to a lack ofmarket competition. Providers complemented each other rather than competed with each other,and the logics of care, choice, and advocacy challenged each other within the quasi-market. Allinformants described financial conditions in the market as extremely strained. Strong personalcommitment characterized providers entering and exiting the market, and this strongcommitment suggests a nuanced professionalism we refer to as idealistic professionalism. Agap was found between policy goals and experiences among stakeholders, and efficiency wasfound to be the policy goal achieved most often in practice. This raises the questions of howthe Swedish community mental health service market will develop in the future and what theimplications are for the participants.
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- Fjellfeldt, Maria, et al.
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Competing Logics and Idealistic Professionalism : Development of a Swedish Community Mental Health Serivce Market
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Annan publikation (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- The aim of this study was to explore the longitudinal development of an organisational fieldafter the implementation of a freedom-of-choice system in terms of the range and characteristicsof providers and services as well as the dynamics and professionalism that appeared as a resultof these changes. Our findings suggest that the expected effects of the reform in terms of varietyof providers and services within the organizational field did not materialise due to a lack ofmarket competition. Providers complemented each other rather than competed with each other,and the logics of care, choice, and advocacy challenged each other within the quasi-market. Allinformants described financial conditions in the market as extremely strained. Strong personalcommitment characterized providers entering and exiting the market, and this strongcommitment suggests a nuanced professionalism we refer to as idealistic professionalism. Agap was found between policy goals and experiences among stakeholders, and efficiency wasfound to be the policy goal achieved most often in practice. This raises the questions of howthe Swedish community mental health service market will develop in the future and what theimplications are for the participants.
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- Fjellfeldt, Maria
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Developing Long-Term Sustainable Collaborations between Welfare Providers That Support and Promote Child and Youth Mental Health in Sweden : A Qualitative Interview Study
- 2022
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Ingår i: International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health. - : MDPI AG. - 1661-7827 .- 1660-4601. ; 19:13
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- When addressing child and youth mental health, policy makers around the world call for collaboration between welfare providers. Research shows, however, that cross-sector collaboration is challenging. This article aims to scrutinize the issue of sustainability in the collaborative work undertaken between welfare providers to jointly support and promote child and youth mental health. In a qualitative interview study, 19 key officials involved in collaborative mental health work in three Swedish municipalities were interviewed, 13 individually and 6 in three small groups. Data were analyzed through content analysis and the application of practice-oriented collaboration theories. The results show that informants feel collaboration is beneficial for child and youth mental health. The results also show that five aspects of this collaborative work can affect its sustainability: (1) how the collaborative work was set up: if it was a special project or part of existing organizational structures; (2) what model of funding was used; (3) how many organizational levels were involved; (4) if goals were common, concurrent or contradictive; and (5) if important stakeholders were seen to be 'missing'. Collaboration members felt their collaborative work had caused them to drift away from important non-participant stakeholders. This article concludes that to develop long-term sustainable collaborations addressing child and youth mental health, key features of collaborative work need to be taken into consideration.
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- Fjellfeldt, Maria, et al.
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Development of a Swedish community mental health service market
- 2019
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Ingår i: Nordic Social Work Research. - : Routledge. - 2156-857X .- 2156-8588. ; :1, s. 72-84
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The aim of this study was to examine changes in an organizational field over time when implementing a freedom of choice model. Main focus was on the range and characteristics of providers and services. Our findings suggest that the expected effects of the reform in terms of variety of providers and services within the organizational field did not materialise due to a lack of market competition. Providers complemented each other rather than competed with each other, and the logics of care, choice, and advocacy challenged each other within the quasi-market. All informants described financial conditions in the market as extremely strained. Strong personal commitment characterized providers entering and exiting the market. A gap was found between policy goals and experiences among stakeholders, and efficiency was found to be the policy goal achieved most often in practice. This raises the questions of how the Swedish community mental health service market will develop in the future and what the implications are for the participants.
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- Fjellfeldt, Maria, et al.
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Fringe or Not Fringe? : Strategies for Localizing Supported Accommodation in a Post‐Deinstitutional Era
- 2021
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Ingår i: Social Inclusion. - Lisbon, Portugal : Cogitatio Press. - 2183-2803 .- 2183-2803. ; 9:3, s. 201-213
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Finding suitable locations for supported accommodations is crucial both for the wellbeing of individuals with psychiatric disabilities (PD) and to achieve the objectives of the mental health care reform in order to create opportunities for social inclusion. This article explores municipal strategies for localizing supported accommodations for people with PD. In a multiple case study, interviews with 20 municipal civil servants from social services and urban planning were conducted. Three strategies were identified and further analyzed with a public location theory approach: (1) re‐use, i.e., using existing facilities for a new purpose, (2) fill‐in, i.e., infilling new purpose‐built facilities in existing neighborhoods, and (3) insert, i.e., inserting new premises or facilities as part of a new development. The article shows that the “re‐use” strategy was employed primarily for pragmatic reasons, but also because re‐using former care facilities was found to cause less conflicts, as residents were supposedly used to neighbors with special needs. When the “fill‐in” and “insert” strategies were employed, new accommodations were more often located on the outskirts of neighborhoods. This was a way to balance potential conflicts between residents in ordinary housing and residents in supported accommodations, but also to meet alleged viewpoints of service users’ need for a quiet and secluded accommodation. Furthermore, ideas associated with social services’ view of social inclusion and urban planning’s notion of “tricky” tenants significantly influenced localization strategies. Finally, this article is also a call for more empirical research on the decision‐making processes, use of strategies (intended or not) and spatial outcomes, when localizing supported accommodation for people with PD and other groups in need of support and service.
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