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- Skoog, Louise, 1984
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Where did the party conflicts go? How horizontal specialisation in political systems affect party conflicts
- 2021
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Ingår i: Politics & Policy. - : Wiley. - 1555-5623 .- 1747-1346. ; 49:2, s. 390-413
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This article shows that political conflicts are expressed in different arenas and between different actors depending on the degree of horizontal specialisation in a political system. In political organisations with a low degree of horizontal specialisation, more issues are depoliticised and the discretion of the administration increases. One factor that spurs political conflicts is prioritisation between policy fields, rather than within fields. The study is based on an analysis of minutes from assembly meetings as well as interviews with leading local politicians and chief executive officers in three Swedish municipalities.
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- Sundström, Aksel, 1983
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Not to be used during fire: Performance-related pay for civil servants as an anticorruption tool
- 2014
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Rapport (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- The last decades’ restructuring of public administrations has in numerous countries included the use of performance-related pay (PRP) programs. Such reforms have been said to reduce civil servants’ incentives for corrupt behavior and have therefore been promoted as an anticorruption tool. However, the article hypothesize that such schemes’ suppressing effect on corruption in- centives is questionable in highly corrupt settings because the absence of noncorrupt senior managers—and hence independent performance evaluations—may lead to the capture of such programs. An in-depth study of reforms in the South African civil service provides micro-level insights to the process in which such reforms may fail. The investigation outline how PRP- bonuses are used as rewards from corrupt senior managers to colluding subordinates. Honest bureaucrats are instead isolated and receive no addition to their salary. These selective rewards make honest behavior increasingly costly and function as an incentive for civil servants to en- gage in bribery.
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- Suzuki, Kohei, 1976, et al.
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Bureaucratic Structures and Organizational Commitment of Senior Public Officials: Evidence from a Cross-National Study of 20 European Countries
- 2018
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Ingår i: The 22nd Annual IRSPM Conference. Edinburgh, Scotland: 11-13 April 2018. - Gothenburg : The Quality of Government.
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Annan publikation (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- In recent years there has been growing scholarly interest in the effects of bureaucratic structures on corruption, socioeconomic development, government effectiveness, policy implementation, and support for democracy. However, very few attention has been paid to a link between bureaucratic structures and civil servants’ work morale, especially organizational commitment. Do public sector managers in closed civil service systems show more commitment to the organization than those in more open bureaucracies? We argue that senior public sector managers in closed bureaucratic structures show higher levels of organizational commitment than those in more open civil service systems. However, such higher commitment mainly comes from the economic costs of leaving organization, lack of outside alternative, and perceived obligation to remain in the organization, not from their engagement in their organizational goals and values. Using two unique large comparative data sets on public bureaucracies and public managers—the COCOPS Top Executive Survey (Hammerschmid 2015) and the QoG (Quality of Government) Expert Survey (Dahlström et al. 2015)—we find support for hypothesis.
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- Suzuki, Kohei, 1976, et al.
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Does citizen participation affect municipal performance? Electoral competition and fiscal performance in Japan
- 2018
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Ingår i: Public Money & Management. - : Informa UK Limited. - 0954-0962 .- 1467-9302.
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Subnational fiscal performance has been receiving a lot of attention from researchers in various disciplines. However, there is very little published on the impact of citizen involvement on fiscal performance. This paper shows that a lack of citizen involvement in the electoral process was associated with fiscal performance in all 807 city-level Japanese municipalities from 2006 to 2012.
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- Suzuki, Kohei, 1976, et al.
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Women and risk-taking behaviour in local public finance
- 2018
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Ingår i: Public Management Review. - : Informa UK Limited. - 1471-9037 .- 1471-9045. ; 20:12, s. 1741-1767
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This study examines how female representation in local elected (mayor and legislature) and administrative (mid-level manager) positions influences municipal financial decision-making in 764 Japanese city-level governments. Findings show that female representation in local councils is positively correlated with risk-averse behaviour in financial decisions, as female representation on the legislature is negatively associated with issuing municipal bonds and with local investment in public corporations. Female representation in executive (mayor and vice-mayor) and mid-level administrative managerial positions has no apparent effects on local financial decisions. This study tests existing explanations of relationships between female managerial representation and fiscal behaviour in an Asian developed setting characterized by considerable underrepresentation of women in politics.
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- Karlsson, David, 1974
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2.1.7 Jämlikhet och mångfald i kommunal politik och förvaltning
- 2011
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Ingår i: Andreas Ivarsson (red): Nordisk kommunforskning. En forskningsövesikt med 113 projekt.. - Göteborg : University of Gothenburg. - 9789163398025 ; , s. 38-41
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Bokkapitel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)
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- Kotze, Shelley, 1986, et al.
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Double jeopardy within Swedish integration: Using South–North collaborations to explore the role of gender within transdisciplinary integration projects
- 2019
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Ingår i: International Transdisciplinarity Conference 2019: “Joining Forces for Change”, TD-Net – Network for Transdisciplinary Research / Swiss Academies of Arts and Sciences, 10–13 September 2019, Gothenburg, Sweden.
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- Sweden is now a highly multicultural society, and as such is dealing with a multiplicity of integration issues. Accordingly, approaches to integration must also be multifaceted in their nature, conducted by transdisciplinary teams within a diverse range of projects. The current approach is to integrate immigrants into the labour market, for which a lauded policy has been implemented (MIPEX). However, when looking at outcomes, the OECD data (2013) is placing Sweden at the bottom of its ranking, with 57% of 15-74-year-olds born outside of Sweden in employment, compared to 67% of native-born Swedes. A possible reason for the gap is the relatively high proportion of native-born women in employment. But, this does not explain why immigrant women’s levels of employment are consistently 10% lower than immigrant men’s. This creates a gender gap between immigrant men and women, and a gap between native-born and immigrant women. As such, immigrant women are experiencing a double-jeopardy in labour-market integration, both as women and as immigrants. Studies exploring instances of the double-jeopardy problem have been conducted in the US (De Jong et al 2001), Canada (Boyd 1984), Australia (Foroutan 2008) and Israel (Reijman & Semyonov 1997). However, this research is still considered novel as it utilises transdisciplinarity to explore the ways in which gender is being used to inform the process of integration. Drawing on the conceptualisation of transdisciplinarity from Zurich 2000, this research draws from a diversity of different projects and approaches to address the real-world problem of double jeopardy experienced by immigrant women. It does so by exploring the experiences and reflections from academics and researchers; government employees; sustainability strategists; social entrepreneurs and NGO volunteer and staff. The projects led by these actors are linked by the aim of providing social integration and the use of the concept of gender in doing so, albeit some more explicitly than others. This presentation explores how the hypothesis of double jeopardy plays out in practice. The aim of our research is to understand the ways in which a transdiciplinarity of actors apply the concept of gender within labour market integration and how this affects tangible outcomes for women. This has been undertaken through a South–North collaboration, using a Swedish-Kenyan collaboration programme within Mistra Urban Futures – SKILLs, aiming towards sustainable urban development. Our research applies a gender analysis of local case studies from impoverished areas of Gothenburg. The discussion is informed by challenges (and solutions) identified in Kisumu (Kenya) and provides a set of co-produced recommendations. The following research questions are pursued: 1. How does labour-market integration consider and use the concept of gender? 2. What effect(s) does the use of gender have upon the outcomes for women within labour-market integration projects? 3. How can the use of the concept of gender be improved within labour-market integration to provide outcomes for women that are equal, fair and sustainable? Initial findings suggest that gender as a concept is experienced differently by immigrant women and Swedish women. In questioning how women from the Global South experience integration projects in the context of the Global North, the collaboration has identified the following aspects: agency; choice of approach; cultural awareness; role modelling; stereotyping and; tokenism – within transdisciplinary projects from both research sites. With these challenges in mind, some integration projects may prove problematic at best and unsuccessful at worst because of this under-researched dimension.
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- Kotze, Shelley, 1986, et al.
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Using South-North collaborations to explore the role of gender within immigrant integration projects
- 2019
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Ingår i: 2019 RINGS Conference: “Genders and Feminisms in a Polarised World – Sustainability, Futures and Utopias”, The International Research Association of Institutions of Advanced Gender Studies / Tallinn University – Gender Studies Research Group, 2–4 October 2019, Tallinn, Estonia.
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- One of Sweden’s current predicaments is that it is a highly multicultural society in a European context, facing a crisis through the vulnerability and anxieties relating to the increasing immigrant populations being closely related to an increasing polarisation. In a polarised society, gender is at risk of again becoming the invisible “third” face of policies trying to facilitate migration, overwhelmed by the complexity and jeopardies of integration and disintegration, homogeneity and diversity, equality and inequality, inclusion and exclusion. Sweden has developed a lauded policy, most particularly within the formal opportunities offered to immigrants when accessing the labour-market (MIPEX). However, the index does not measure the outcomes of such policy. The OECD data (2013) is placing Sweden at the bottom of its ranking, as it has the largest gap, in levels of employment between native-born Swedes and those born outside of Sweden. Possible reasoning for the gap is the relatively high proportion of native-born women in employment. When immigrant employment numbers are explored along gendered lines immigrant women’s levels of employment are consistently 10% lower than those of immigrant men. This not only creates a gender gap between immigrant men and women, but also a gap between native-born and immigrant women. As such, immigrant women are experiencing a double-jeopardy in labour-market integration, both as women and as immigrants. Therefore, we ask if intersectional actors are taken into account in designing policies; how they reflect the differences of immigrant women trying to integrate; and how can immigrant women change Swedish society and its labour force? This presentation explores how the hypothesis of double-jeopardy plays out in practice. The aim of our research is to understand the ways in which different approaches to labour-market integration apply the concept of gender, and how this affects the tangible and sustainable outcomes for the women involved. This will be undertaken through a South–North collaboration, using a Swedish-Kenyan collaboration programme within Mistra Urban Futures – SKILLs, aiming towards sustainable urban development. Drawing upon experiences and reflections from works of academics, researchers and NGOs, our research applies a gender analysis of local case studies from impoverished areas of Gothenburg. The discussion is informed by challenges (and solutions) identified in Kisumu, and provides a set of co-produced recommendations. Initial findings suggest that gender as a concept is experienced differently by immigrant women and Swedish women. In questioning how women from the Global South experience integration projects in the context of the Global North we attempt to initiate discussion how labour-market integration can produce more tangible, sustainable and equitable outcomes for immigrant women.
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- Rundqvist, Mikael, 1962-, et al.
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Integration och mångfald i regionala projekt
- 2009. - 1
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Ingår i: Lärande utvärdering genom följeforskning. - Lund : Studentlitteratur. - 9789144056173 - 9144056176 ; , s. 245-257
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Bokkapitel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Den här boken presenterar ett delvis nytt perspektiv på lärande utvärdering i interaktiva former. Frågan är hur man ska uppnå långsiktiga effekter, det vill säga en hållbar utveckling med hjälp av projekt. Detta är en viktig fråga inte minst i genomförandet av EU:s strukturfonder. I boken förankras begreppen kring lärande utvärdering i teori men huvuddelen av kapitlen utgår från exempel på lärande utvärdering och resonerar kring dessa. Viktiga delar i utvärderingsprocessen är exempelvis forskarens eller utvärderarens konstruktiva dialog med deltagarna, att granskningen är kritisk och att förhållningssättet växlar mellan närhet och distans. Gemensam kunskapsbildning är viktig i en lärande utvärdering och analysseminarier presenteras som ett sätt att nå dit. Målgrupp för boken är högskolestuderande bland annat inom sociologi, pedagogik, företagsekonomi och personalvetarprogram. Boken bör även kunna användas i högskolekurser och uppdragsutbildning för chefer, utvecklare, konsulter, projektledare och utvärderare.
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