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- Ahlbäck Öberg, Shirin, Professor, 1964-, et al.
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Professional ambitions and organizational inertia : Analyzing the professionalization projects of the Swedish Military and Police
- 2022
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Konferensbidrag (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- This paper focuses on the professionalization project of the Swedish military and police and the interplay between profession and organization. Previous literature has suggested that the relationship between professions and organizations are crucial for understanding matters such as organizational change and the development of professional work. Against this background, we start with the assumption that the relationship between professions and organizations is an important variable also for the development and evolvement of professionalization undertakings. We start by mapping ambitions and concrete measures, undertaken from the 1990s onwards, to professionalize these two forces. Following the understanding of professionalization as the scientification of work, we study changes in officer education as well as ambitions to increase the linkage between research and the conduct of professional work. We thereafter analyze to what extent the receiving end has adopted to the input side of these reforms, by studying the importance of scientification when it comes to what knowledge base officers rely on when conducting work; the linkage between scientification and admission, promotion and the status of officers as teachers or researchers. We conclude that there is no immediate correlation between efforts to reform these professional groups and their impact on the organization. Despite similar ambitions by the state, the Swedish military and police have responded differently. We further conclude that for externally initiated professionalization reforms to have an effect, they cannot solely target the professional groups, but also the organization.
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- Ledberg Knöchel, Sofia, 1972-
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Unik inblick i det kinesiska undret
- 2008
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Ingår i: Internationella Studier. - 0020-952X. ; :3, s. 103-106
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Recension (populärvet., debatt m.m.)
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- Ledberg, Sofia
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Analysing Chinese Civil-Military Relations : A bottom-Up Approach
- 2018
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Ingår i: China Quarterly. - : Cambridge University Press. - 0305-7410 .- 1468-2648. ; 234, s. 377-398
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This article examines Chinese civil-military relations using a bottom-up analytical approach and hitherto untapped sources, including interviews with military personnel in active service. It argues that traditional approaches to political control, which generally interpret the changing political-military relationship through military professionalism and institutional autonomy, miss out on important aspects and may generate erroneous conclusions. Here, focus is instead on the professional autonomy of the Chinese officer corps. Through an empirical study of the organization of military work at two of China’s top military education institutes, the article illustrates how professional autonomy and direct political control varies, both between hierarchical levels and issue areas. This highlights the multidimensionality of both control and professional manoeuvrability and underlines the fruitfulness of including an intra-organizational perspective in order to reach better informed conclusions about political control and civil-military relations in today’s China.
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- Ledberg, Sofia
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China: party–army relations past and present
- 2020
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Ingår i: Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Politics. - : Oxford University Press.
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Bokkapitel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The People’s Liberation Army (PLA) is a key political actor within the Chinese state. Together with the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and the Chinese state institutions, it makes up the political foundation of the People’s Republic of China. In the early years following the founding of the PRC in 1949, the military played an important role in state consolidation and the management of domestic state affairs, as is expected in a state founded on Leninist principles of organization. Since the reform process, which was initiated in the late 1970s, the political role of the PLA has changed considerably. It has become less involved in domestic politics and increased attention has been directed towards military modernization. Consequently, in the early 21st century, the Chinese military shares many characteristics of the armed forces in non-communist states. At the same time, the organizational structures, such as the party committee system, the system of political leaders and political organs, have remained in place. In other words, the politicized structures that were put in place to facilitate the role of the military as a domestic political tool of the CCP, across many sectors of society, are expected to also accommodate modernization, professionalization and cooperation with foreign militaries on the international arena in post-reform China. This points to an interesting discrepancy between form and purpose in regard to the People’s Liberation Army. The role of the military in Chinese politics has thus shifted over the years, and its relationship with the CCP has generally been interpreted as having developed from one marked by symbiosis to one of greater institutional autonomy and independence. Yet these developments should not necessarily be seen as linear or irreversible. Indeed, Chinese politics in the Xi Jinping era suggests an increased focus on ideology, centralization and personalized leadership, which already has had consequences for the political control of the armed forces in China. Chances are that these trends will impact the role of the PLA in politics even further in the early decades of the 21st century.
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- Ledberg, Sofia Knöchel, 1972-
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Governing the Military : Professional Autonomy in the Chinese People's Liberation Army
- 2014
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Doktorsavhandling (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- The reform process that has been underway in China the past 30 years has affected most parts of Chinese society. In regard to core branches of the civilian state administration, public administration research provides evidence of far-reaching decentralization, marketization, and a relaxation of direct political control within many policy areas. Despite the fact that the military in any Marxist-Leninist state is an indispensable part of the state administration, it is rarely included in research on the Chinese state administrations. In this dissertation, it is argued that the military is intrinsically linked to the overall political stability of the Chinese state not only because it constitutes one of the most central branches of the Chinese cadre administration, but also given its close connection to the ruling communist party. Hence it deserves greater research focus.The overarching focus of this study is political control and governance vis-à-vis the Chinese military. Contrary to previous studies that have approached the issue of control by investigating military infringement on civilian policy making, the analysis here illustrates that the structures and the underlying logic of control are better captured by a study of the professional autonomy of the Chinese military officer corps. Professional autonomy is investigated within the military education system, given that education is a central undertaking for any profession.By suggesting a new approach to the study of the relationship between the political entities of the state and the military, an approach which makes use of insights from both the political science subfield of public administration and the sociology of professions, this dissertation makes important theoretical and analytical contributions to the field of civil-military relations. Yet the usefulness of the actor-centered approach put forward here, which focuses on the autonomy of the profession within the organization, reaches beyond the immediate study of the military and can be used in any analysis of power relations between the political entities of the state and its administrations. This dissertation also contributes to increase the understanding of Chinese military education, which is one of the military’s most important peace time undertakings.
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- Ledberg, Sofia K., et al.
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Military Families : Topography of a Field
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Ingår i: Handbook of Military Sciences. - Cham : Springer. - 9783030028664 ; , s. 1-16
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Bokkapitel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Over the past decades, debates revolving around the role and challenges of military families have developed into an important subfield in military sociology. Throughout history, military families have played an important role for military forces, and in the post-World War II era, the role of the family has shifted as a consequence of military professionalization. Research on military families explores the different demands placed upon service members from both the military organization and the family. More recently, such research has studied how the inclusion of women and gender minorities, operational deployments, and broader societal changes transformed the composition, stakes, and challenges of military families and the traditional idea of the military spouse.
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