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- Abdelzadeh, Ali, 1981-, et al.
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En arena för tillit och tolerans?
- 2016
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Ingår i: Föreningen, jaget och laget. - Stockholm : Centrum för idrottsforskning. - 9789198183375 ; , s. 27-46
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Bokkapitel (populärvet., debatt m.m.)
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- Lundberg, Erik, 1980-
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A pluralist state? : civil society organizations’ access to the Swedish policy process 1964-2009
- 2014
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Doktorsavhandling (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Including civil society organizations in the policy process is a distinctive trait of democratic governance. But, while being highly valuable from a democratic point of view, not all civil society organizations are represented in the policy process. This dissertation draws attention to the role of the government in shaping the representation of civil society organizations in the Swedish government consultation referred to as the ‘remiss procedure’. The overall aim is to increase empirical and theoretical understanding of civil society organizations’ access to the national Swedish policy process. Drawing on various empirical data sources, it analyzes how access has changed during the second half of the 20th century, the factors influencing access, and the significance of the access provided by the government.The results are based on four empirical studies, and show that the government has encouraged an increasing number and more diverse types of civil society organizations to be represented in the remiss procedure. In addition, organizations with plenty of resources, such as labor and business organizations, are not overrepresented. However, access is slightly skewed in favor of civil society organizations with an insider position within other access points at national government level, which is consistent with a privileged pluralistic pattern of interest representation. In addition, civil society organizations seem to be invited into an arena for political influence of less relevance. Theoretically, the dissertation moves beyond the neo-corporatist perspective that dominated Swedish research during the second half of the 20th century by drawing attention to five different theoretical lenses: pluralism, neo-corporatism, political opportunity structures, policy network theory, and resource exchange theory. It concludes that a variety of theories are needed for access to be understood.
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- Lundberg, Erik, et al.
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European civil societies and the promotion of integration, Leading practices from Sweden, Great Britain, the Netherlands and Italy
- 2011
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Ingår i: <em>Social Rights, Active Citizenship and Governance in the European Union</em>. - Baden-Baden : Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft mbH & Co. KG. - 9783832954192
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Bokkapitel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- This chapter describes how European civil societies promote integration in the EU by comparing leading practices from various NGOs in Sweden, Great Britain, the Netherlands and Italy. The chapter concludes that NGOs are active in areas where governments are weak, or, according to the NGOs, do not meet the expected requirements. All NGOs studied here are more or less dependent on public funds, and a lack of funds impedes their ability to access and connect with EU decision-makers and administrative staff. Small NGOs and similar networks in particular have difficulties meeting and influencing politicians and the administrative staff within the EU. It is therefore of utmost importance that policy-makers in the EU create more participatory opportunities for various NGOs, which would simultaneously strengthen the organisation’s legitimacy and relevance. It is worth nothing that the NGOs studied here articulate surprisingly few national variations with regard to the preconditions underlying their work. European policy-making institutions may therefore consider the diversity of European civil societies.
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- Amnå, Erik, 1950-, et al.
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Standby citizens : diverse faces of political passivity
- 2014
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Ingår i: European Political Science Review. - New York, USA : Cambridge University Press. - 1755-7739 .- 1755-7747. ; 6:2, s. 261-281
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The current debate on political participation is bound to a discussion about whether citizens are active or passive. This dichotomous notion is nurtured by an extensive normative debate concerning whether passivity is an asset or a threat to democracy; and it is especially manifest in studies of young people's political orientations. Drawing on this discussion, the present study goes beyond the dichotomy by keeping political interest conceptually separate from participation in order to improve our understanding of political passivity. Multivariate cluster analysis of empirical data on Swedish youth suggests that we need to consider three distinctive forms of 'political passivity'. In the paper we present empirical evidence not only of the existence of a particular 'standby citizen', but also of two kinds of genuinely passive young people: unengaged and disillusioned citizens. Alongside active citizens, these people are in distinctly different categories with regard to their political behavior. This entails a new analytical framework that may be used to analyze an empirical phenomenon that has received surprisingly little attention in the literature on political participation and civic engagement.
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- Ekman, Joakim, 1970-, et al.
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Civic Engagement
- 2022
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Ingår i: The Oxford Handbook of Political Participation. - Oxford : Oxford University Press. - 9780198861126 - 9780191893094 ; , s. 381-395
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Bokkapitel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- The chapter focuses specifically on civic engagement as a distinct mode of political activity among citizens in contemporary democracies. In the first section, we review existing definitions of “civic engagement” in the literature, noting in particular the lack of common notions of what it entails, as well as the critique against too wide or all-encompassing definitions. In the second section, we develop a conceptual discussion about civic engagement and political participation, and suggest a thin notion of civic engagement that may be measured in a straightforward way in empirical studies. In the third section, we turn to an overview of recent empirical works on civic engagement, highlighting key findings and suggesting avenues for further research.
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