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- Marklund, Carl, 1974-
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From the Swedish Model to the Open Society : The Swedish Power Investigation and the Power to Investigate Power, 1985-1990
- 2013
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Ingår i: Journal of Contemporary European Studies. - : Informa UK Limited. - 1478-2804 .- 1478-2790. ; 21:3, s. 357-371
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This article analyses the background, activities and reception of the Swedish power investigation (1985–1990). It argues that the power investigation had to navigate between two distinct expectations: on the one hand, the investigation was to expose private power in the interest of equality and justice; on the other hand, it was to improve the exercise of public power in the interest of democracy and efficiency. Because of this two-fold objective, the power investigation was criticised for having neither disclosed private power openly enough, nor pointed out possible ways of adequately rejuvenating welfare state policies clearly. However, the article concludes that one may also assess the power investigation insofar as it served to reconceptualise the socio-political language of welfare state politics in general, as a result of the power inherent in the right to investigate power.
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- Marklund, Carl, 1974-
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From Unconditional Solidarity to Conditional Evaluability : Competing Notions of Conditionality and the Swedish Aid Model
- 2021
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Ingår i: Do-Gooders at the End of Aid. - Cambridge : Cambridge University Press. ; , s. 171-193
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Bokkapitel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This chapter analyzes how competing notions of conditionality – primarily tensions between efficiency and solidarity – have played out in debates and discourses on development aid since the 1960s in one Scandinavian country and a small, yet highly profiled donor – Sweden. Repeated and shifting demands for accountability and transparency serve as a probe into the complex, competing, and often fluctuating aims, goals, and motives of international development aid. The chapter argues that current debates on “the end of aid” are informed by a historical and unresolved tension between “unconditional solidarity” on the one hand and “conditional efficiency” on the other: Demands for openness elucidate competing aims of aid, indicating a paradox in the transparency paradigm in contemporary development aid discourse, whereby efficient aid – as manifested in economic growth – eventually leads to the end of aid while its alleged inefficiency – as evidenced in social inequality – ensures its continued legitimacy.
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- Marklund, Carl
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Introduction
- 2013
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Ingår i: All Well in the Welfare State?. - Helsinki : Nordic Centre of Excellence NordWel. - 9789521083068 ; , s. 12-25
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