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- Scaramuzzino, Roberto, et al.
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Civil Society Organizations Going European? : The Europeanization of Swedish CSOs
- 2015
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Ingår i: SAGE Open. - : SAGE Open. - 2158-2440. ; 5:2, s. 1-14
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This study explores factors that influence Swedish civil society organizations’ (CSOs) degree of activity at different geographical and administrative levels and, in particular, how they are affected by processes of Europeanization in the social welfare policy area. The present study is based on a national survey and includes approximately 1,600 Swedish CSOs. Despite the often claimed mismatch between the Swedish welfare model and European Union (EU) level social policy measures, EU membership has opened a new level of opportunities for activities for Swedish CSOs. The results show that Swedish CSOs are mostly active at the local level and very seldom at the European level. The strongest factor contributing to Swedish CSOs’ degree of activity at the European level is the perceived relevance of this level. Furthermore, resources have a great impact. CSOs that can claim strong representativeness and that have access to employed staff are more likely to be Europeanized.
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- Johansson, Håkan, et al.
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Social Movements and Interest Groups Compared : How organisational type matters for explaining Swedish organisations’ advocacy strategies
- 2019
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Ingår i: PArticipation and COnflict. - : University of Salento. - 1972-7623 .- 2035-6609. ; 12:2, s. 353-381
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The divide between interest groups and social movement studies runs deep, but present developments call for a renewed focus on the relevance of these analytical categories. Both of these two forms of collective action relate to organisations that are assumed to follow distinctive logics and strategies for political influence. This article aims to contribute to the debates on the analytical difference between interest groups and social movements by comparing their political strategies and addressing the relevance of the typology for explaining organisations’ use of political strat-egies. The paper draws on a dataset resulting from a large survey among Swedish civil society organisations among which clear cases of interest group organisations and “old” and “new” social movement organisations (SMOs) were identified. The results show that the distinction between interest groups and social movement organisations has some analytical value when it comes to explaining the use of different types of strategies: e.g. direct lobbying and media-based and protest-based strategies. Also, the distinction between old and new SMOs is shown to be relevant because old SMOs seem to be in a way “in between” interest groups and new SMOs suggesting that social movements tend to develop over time and to become more similar to interest groups.
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- Scaramuzzino, Roberto, et al.
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Factors Explaining Swedish Civil Society Organizations’ Europeanization
- 2019
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Ingår i: Europeanization in Sweden : Opportunities and Challenges for Civil Society Organizations - Opportunities and Challenges for Civil Society Organizations. - 9781789200348 - 9781789200355 ; , s. 108-120
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