Multi-level Coordination Bodies of Democratic Networked Governance for Frail Elderly in Sweden

• New policies for the frail elderly, integrating eldercare from local government and health care from regional government, rests on a complex transboundary policy challenge involving public and private service providers where different authorities must increasingly co-operate through multi-level democratic networked governance. The purpose of this paper is to study the members of such coordination bodies with questions about their representation, capacity and accountability in relation to horizontal management theory in the setting of the decentralized Nordic welfare state. Data rests on a survey sent to all members of 73 strategic multi-level coordination bodies handling frail elderly policy across Sweden. The findings show that representation is multi-level, but divided, into a coordination policy system of bodies staffed with either politicians or administrators from different levels of authority or mainly managers/professionals, with networks that are either local deliberative, regional strategic or public/private provider oriented. This horizontal policy coordination system determines the patterns of capacity and accountability, but perceived quality performance of the coordination body rests on latent differences in efficiency that are internal and external.

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SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP  -- Statsvetenskap (hsv//swe)

SOCIAL SCIENCES  -- Political Science (hsv//eng)

SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP  -- Statsvetenskap -- Studier av offentlig förvaltning (hsv//swe)

SOCIAL SCIENCES  -- Political Science -- Public Administration Studies (hsv//eng)

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