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- Andersson, Dennis, et al.
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Hur reagerar opinionen på ökad flyktingmottagning?
- 2015
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Ingår i: Bergström A., Johansson B., Oscarsson H. & Oskarson M. (red.) Fragment. - Göteborg : Göteborgs Universitet. - 0284-4788. - 9789189673328 ; , s. 249-260
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Bokkapitel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
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- Andersson, Dennis, et al.
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The Limits of a Commitment? Public Responses to Asylum Policy in Sweden over Time
- 2018
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Ingår i: Scandinavian Political Studies. - : Wiley. - 0080-6757. ; 41:3, s. 307-335
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- It is hardly an exaggeration to claim that one of the most turbulent political areas in recent years has been asylum policy, which has disclosed a rapidly increasing inflow of asylum seekers, and, in many countries, has been followed by fierce media discussion and political controversies. In Sweden, this development has been heated as the Swedish self-image is one of providing generous policies, which is also reflected in terms of strong refugee policy. The article uses this example to explore assumptions about public responsiveness in previous policy feedback literature and to examine the link between citizens' attitudes towards immigration and changes in asylum policy output, measured as asylums granted, over time in the period 1990-2015. It focuses especially on the link through which citizens become aware of policy output, operationalized as media visualization, and find that including media reveals a suppressed relationship between policy output and public attitudes. The relationship is negative and thus confirms the assumptions of the thermostatic models. Second, the article shows that feedback is mediated by political orientation: People defining themselves politically as right-oriented respond with negative feedback when the number of granted asylums increases, while left-oriented people do not change their attitudes. Based on these findings it is concluded, first, that analyses of democratic responsiveness need to incorporate a clear measure of the link by which exogenous factors become visible. Second, the importance needs to be stressed of considering important cleavages in the population in order to display responsiveness processes fairly.
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- Bendz, Anna, 1967, et al.
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A bridge over sustainable water: Politicians' perceptions about the preconditions for collective action
- 2024
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Ingår i: AMBIO. - 0044-7447 .- 1654-7209. ; 53
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Sustainable water resource management is a core interest for all societies. As water systems are often common resources, the management of water systems requires coordinated action among actors along the water. For flowing water, a complication for coordination is upstream-downstream relations where what happens upstream affects downstream, but not the other way around. In this study we present results from a survey experiment with politicians in Sweden, focusing on whether and to what extent their willingness to cooperate is affected by their placement upstream or downstream along a fictive water system. Our findings indicate that politicians from upstream and downstream municipalities share the view that upstream politicians bear greater responsibility for undertaking preventive actions and are willing to assume remedial responsibility for problems caused by them. These results challenge the notion that self-interest is the primary obstacle to resolving environmental collective action problems.
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- Bendz, Anna, 1967
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Att välja vård - Västsvenskarna och vårdvalet
- 2011
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Ingår i: Västsvensk demokrati i tid och rum, red. L. Nilsson. - Göteborg : SOM-Institutet. ; , s. 91-104
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Bokkapitel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)
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- Bendz, Anna, 1967, et al.
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Convince with facts: Information effects on attitudes to the sickness insurance in Sweden
- 2024
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Ingår i: Scandinavian Political Studies. - 0080-6757 .- 1467-9477. ; 47:1, s. 1-22
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Does factual information matter for policy evaluations and attitudes? Previous research has provided different, and partly contradictive, replies to this question. To test the effect of concrete facts on attitudes, we provide findings from a survey web-experiment concerning satisfaction with the universal sickness insurance. The treatments in the experiment are short facts from official reports on how the insurance actually work and is used. Our dependent variables are general satisfaction with how the insurance works, as well as trust for the responsible agency administering the insurance and more specified perceptions on capacity, precision, and fairness of the insurance. The results show that under certain circumstances, policy-specific information does have an effect – even though the effects are not consistent. Effects of the information were mainly found on general evaluations of the sickness insurance rather than on specific attitudes. Furthermore, we conclude that, contrary to expectations, the effects were not conditional on left–right position, subjective knowledge, political interest, or proximity.
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- Bendz, Anna, 1967, et al.
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Drinking water risk management: local government collaboration in West Sweden
- 2019
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Ingår i: Journal of Risk Research. - : Informa UK Limited. - 1366-9877 .- 1466-4461. ; 22:6, s. 674-691
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Drinking water provisioning can be approached as a paradigmatic case of transboundary risk management that requires government collaboration. In Sweden, as in most other countries, the provision of safe drinking water and the control of its quality is a responsibility of local governments. This explorative case study investigates how local level decision-makers (politicians and public administrators) identify and understand risks to drinking water services; how they construe governmental responsibility and collaboration between local governments. The empirical results show that decision-makers identify a number of systemically interrelated technical, natural and social risks; that responsibility is understood to be complex and fragmented and that they refrain from collaboration despite clear advantages in theory. Even if the payoff is high from a broad societal perspective for inter-municipal collaborative risk management of drinking water services, collaboration on the local level is low. Institutional uncertainties relating to the allocation of responsibility, transaction costs and political costs for individual municipalities may explain the reluctance to collaborate in this case.
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