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- Elander, Ingemar, 1942-, et al.
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Governance and planning in a ‘perfect storm’ : Securitising climate change, migration and Covid-19 in Sweden
- 2022
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Ingår i: Progress in Planning. - : Elsevier. - 0305-9006 .- 1873-4510. ; 164
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The article describes and reflects upon how multi-level governance and planning in Sweden have been affected by and reacted upon three pending major challenges confronting humanity, namely climate change, migration and the Covid-19 pandemic. These ‘crises’ are broadly considered ‘existential threats’ in need of ‘securitisation’. Causes and adequate reactions are contested, and there are no given solutions how to securitise the perceived threats, neither one by one, no less together. Government securitisation strategies are challenged by counter-securitisation demands, and plaguing vulnerable groups in society by in-securitising predicaments. Taking Sweden as an example the article applies an analytical approach drawing upon strands of securitisation, governance and planning theory. Targeting policy responses to the three perceived crises the intricate relations between government levels, responsibilities, capacities, and actions are scrutinized, including a focus upon the role of planning. Overriding research questions are: How has the governance and planning system – central, regional and local governments - in Sweden responded to the challenges of climate change, migration and Covid-19? What threats were identified? What solutions were proposed? What consequences could be traced? What prospects wait around the corner? Comparing crucial aspects of the crises’ anatomies the article adds to the understanding of the way multilevel, cross-sectional, hybrid governance and planning respond to concurrent crises, thereby also offering clues for action in other geopolitical contexts. The article mainly draws upon recent and ongoing research on manifestations of three cases in the Swedish context. Applying a pragmatic, methodological approach combining elements of securitisation, governance and planning theories with Carol Lee Bacchi’s ‘What is the problem represented to be’ and a touch of interpretive/narrative theory, the study reveals distinct differences between the anatomies of the three crises and their handling. Urgency, extension, state of knowledge/epistemology, governance and planning make different imprints on crises management. Sweden’s long-term climate change mitigation and adaptation strategies imply slow, micro-steps forward based on a combination of social-liberal, ‘circular’ and a touch of ‘green growth’ economies. Migration policy displays a Janus face, on the one hand largely respecting the UN refugee quota system on the other hand applying a detailed regulatory framework causing severe insecurity especially for minor refugees wanting to stay and make their living in Sweden. The Covid-19 outbreak revealed a lack of foresight and eroded/fragmented responsibility causing huge stress upon personnel in elderly and health care and appalling death rates among elderly patients, although governance and planning slowly adapted through securitising policies, leading to potential de-securitisation of the issue. The three crises have caused a security wake-up among governments at all levels and the public in general, and the article concludes by discussing whether this ‘perfect storm’ of crises will result in a farewell to neoliberalism – towards a neo-regulatory state facing further challenges and crises for governance, planning and the role of planners. The tentative prospect rather indicates a mixture of context-dependent ‘hybrid governance’, thus also underlining the crucial role of planners’ role as ‘chameleons’ in complicated governance processes of politics, policy and planning.
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- Granberg, Mikael, 1962-, et al.
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Modern Municipalities. Notion and ideas guiding the development of Swedish municipalities
- 2014
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Ingår i: European Consortium for Political Reseach (ECPR) General Conference. - Glasgow : Glasgow University.
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- In this paper we describe the development of Swedish municipalities as we trace the origin of the modern municipality to the late 19th century to today with a special focus on the last 40-50 years of development. With this as a background, and related to the research literature, we develop four different theoretical perspectives (ideal types): (1), The municipality as community: focusing on common interests and challenges in the local social and political order. (2), The state integrated municipality: focusing on the implementation of national welfare functions, the role of the municipality and the steering and control efforts of the nation-state. (3), The facilitating municipality: focusing on mobilization and integration of different types of resources across borders within the public sector and between public and private institutions. (4), The market oriented municipality: focusing on freedom of choice reform and that public activities should be put on the market according to the belief that competition is the most important motor of public economy. The different theoretical perspectives, it is argued, catches notion and ideas guiding the development of local politics and democracy. Experiences from reforms, which are related to these ideas, are presented. The overall questions raised are what ideas are empirically represented in different policy fields? The paper concludes by discussing two examples of contemporary policy fields in the light of the four theoretical perspectives.
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- Granberg, Mikael, 1962-, et al.
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Modern Municipalities: The Changing Role of Local Government and Local Democracy in Sweden
- 2014
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Ingår i: NOPSA 2014, XVII Nordic Political Science Congress. - Göteborg : Göteborgs universitet.
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- In this paper we describe the development of Swedish municipalities – we trace the origin of the modern municipality to the late 19th century to today with a special focus on the last 40-50 years of development – through four different theoretical lenses (ideal types): (1), The municipality as a common (communitarian) that focuses on common interests and challenges in the local social and political order. (2), The state integrated municipality that focuses on the implementation of national welfare functions, the role of the municipality and the steering and control efforts of the nation-state. (3), The market oriented municipality that focuses freedom of choice reform and that public activities should be put on the market according to the belief that competition is the most important motor of public economy. (4), The coordinating and facilitating municipality that focuses on how to mobilize and integrate different types of resources across borders within the public sector and between public and private institutions. By using the different theoretical perspectives it is shown that the development of local politics and democracy is driven by different ideas. Experiences from reforms, which are related to these ideas, are presented. The article concludes by pointing out some important challenges and potential pathways for future development of local democracy in Sweden.
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- Montin, Stig, 1954, et al.
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Moderna kommuner
- 2013. - 4
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Bok (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Förnyelse och förändring är honnörsord i landets kommuner och har så varit under de senaste decennierna. Den nationella politiken förändras, medborgarna förändras, nya idéer om statlig och politisk styrning formuleras. Det är också på grund av dessa ständiga förändringar som denna fjärde och omarbetade upplaga av Moderna kommuner nu föreligger.Bokens ambition är att beskriva hur kommuner och landsting/ regioner är inplacerade i det svenska statsskicket, hur kommunerna formellt styrs, vilka verksamheter som förekommer och hur idéer och praktik formar den kommunala politiken, men också att tillhandahålla begrepp och teoretiska perspektiv som kan användas för att förstå kommunernas verksamhet, utveckling och utmaningar.
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- Montin, Stig, 1954-, et al.
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Moderna kommuner
- 2021. - 5
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Bok (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Förnyelse och förändring är och har varit honnörsord i svenska kommuner under de senaste decennierna. Den statliga politiken och styrningen förändras, kommunernas ansvarsområden blir fler, förvaltning och verksamhet organiseras på lika sätt och det formas nya idéer om hur medborgarnas inflytande kan öka. Samtidigt finns det en påtaglig kontinuitet. Den kommunala självstyrelsen är förankrad sedan lång tid tillbaka och kommunerna utgör sedan länge de viktigaste välfärdsinstitutionerna. Denna femte och grundligt reviderade upplaga av Moderna kommuner beskriver dels hur kommuner är inplacerade i det svenska statsskicket, dels hur de styrs formellt. Den behandlar även de kommunala verksamheterna och hur idéer och praktik formar den kommunala demokratin och politiken. Boken vänder sig till studenter som läser om kommunal demokrati vid högskolor och universitet eller på professionsutbildningar inom utbildning och välfärd. Den riktar sig också till verksamma i kommunal politik och förvaltning, som förhoppningsvis kan känna igen sig och få inspiration till samtal om den egna kommunens historia, nutid och framtid.
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