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- Egard, Hanna, et al.
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”Tur att jag inte blev omprövad i år” : Samtal om ett villkorat liv med personlig assistans
- 2021
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Ingår i: Nordisk välfärdsforskning | Nordic Welfare Research. - : Universitetsforlaget. - 1799-4691 .- 2464-4161. ; 6:1, s. 20-31
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- “Luckily I wasn’t re-examined this year” – Talking about living conditions with personal assistanceSweden is often highlighted as a pioneering country in terms of personal assistance (PA) and human rights. However, research shows that the assessment of PA is guided by a medical understanding of disability and by austerity rather than by disability policy. Furthermore, the number of people with state-funded PA has decreased. The purpose of the article is to illuminate the contradictions that characterize life with PA in today’s Sweden. PA is about being able to influence one’s living conditions, to participate and to exercise self-determination, but also about lack of power and control since the right to PA can be withdrawn. The article draws on a participant-based research circle in which users and their representatives were among the participants. The results highlight the complex relationships between personal support and the opportunity to shape one’s existence. PA is considered crucial for everyday life, relationships, work and health. Contacts with the authorities evoke powerlessness, and the fear of losing the PA is palpable. The article contributes knowledge about the social aspects of disability and how reforms and cutbacks influence people’s lives. Such knowledge is essential as, in a Swedish context, PA has become a matter of need rather than of human rights.
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- Arnarsson, Ársaell Már, et al.
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Time-trends in Nordic adolescents’ communication with their parents
- 2019
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Ingår i: Nordisk välfärdsforskning | Nordic Welfare Research. - : Scandinavian University Press / Universitetsforlaget AS. - 1799-4691 .- 2464-4161. ; 4:2, s. 88-100
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Adolescence is an important developmental period toward greater independence. However, the family is still very important in the life of young people. The aim of this study was to analyse changes over time in easy communication between adolescents and their parents in the Nordic countries.The study used the Nordic part of Health Behaviour in School-aged Children, carried out in four waves from 2002–2014. It included 109,446 adolescents. The adolescents were asked how easy it was to communicate with their mother or father about things that really bothered them. The results were analysed using descriptive statistics and binomial logistic regression.In all Nordic countries, the prevalence of easy communication between adolescents and their parents increased from 2002 to 2014. Although the positive change in parental communication was more pronounced among Nordic fathers, the data showed that mothers had markedly better communication with their adolescents than fathers did. In 2014, around three out of four adolescents found it easy to talk with their fathers, while four out of five found it easy to talk with their mothers. The results indicate that policies in the Nordic countries to support the role of both mothers and fathers in caring for their children are warranted.
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- Brennan, Ciara, et al.
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“Being Number One is the Biggest Obstacle”
- 2018
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Ingår i: Nordisk välfärdsforskning | Nordic Welfare Research. - : Universitetsforlaget. - 1799-4691 .- 2464-4161. ; 3:1, s. 18-32
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This paper was inspired by a peculiar theme that emerged from qualitative interviews in Iceland, Norway and Sweden with leaders of Centres for Independent Living (CILs). CILs are peer-led organisations that maximise user-control of disability services. Paradoxically, the Nordic reputation as forerunners in deinstitutionalisation and independent living was considered an impediment to implementing Article 19 of the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities which requires “access to a range of support services, including personal assistance necessary to support living and inclusion in the community”. This contradiction prompted the questions: How is Article 19 implemented in Nordic welfare services? And why is previous progress towards independent living and personal assistance seen as an impediment to implementing the rights-based approach required by the Convention? The findings suggest that it is difficult to change a developed welfare system in which there are vested interests in maintaining the status quo. The reputation of “being number one” conceals problems such as inflexible services and the imbalance of power where the control of services lies with the system and the professionals, not the users.
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- Due, Pernille, et al.
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Trends in high life satisfaction among adolescents in five Nordic countries 2002–2014
- 2019
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Ingår i: Nordisk välfärdsforskning | Nordic Welfare Research. - : Scandinavian University Press / Universitetsforlaget AS. - 1799-4691 .- 2464-4161. ; 4:2, s. 54-66
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Life satisfaction is an important indicator when assessing positive mental health aspects in populations, including among adolescents. The aim of this study was to investigate trends over time in prevalence of high life satisfaction among adolescents from five Nordic countries: Denmark, Iceland, Finland, Norway and Sweden.We used data from four waves of the Health Behaviour in School-Aged Children study from 2002, 2006, 2010 and 2014 (n=109,847). HBSC is a school-based study examining social circumstances, health and health behaviour among 11-, 13- and 15-years olds every four years in many European and North American countries. The Cantril Ladder, an 11-step visual analogue scale, was used as the measure of life satisfaction, and was dichotomised into two groups: high life satisfaction (scoring 9 or 10 on the scale) and medium/low life satisfaction (scoring <9).Over the 12-year period studied, between 28.6 and 44.8% of adolescents in the five countries rated their life satisfaction as high. Relatively large changes in prevalence levels occurred at the country level over the period. Denmark and Finland showed a steady, significant decline in the prevalence of high life satisfaction over the years. Iceland showed the highest prevalence in 2010. Norway and Sweden showed similar development until 2010, followed by a clear increase for Norway and a sharp decline in adolescent high life satisfaction for Sweden up until 2014. In all countries, high life satisfaction was most prevalent in 11-year- olds and least prevalent in almost all surveys among 15-year-old girls.
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- Eriksson, Charli, et al.
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Building knowledge of adolescent mental health in the Nordic countries : An introduction to a Nordic research collaboration
- 2019
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Ingår i: Nordisk välfärdsforskning | Nordic Welfare Research. - : Scandinavian University Press / Universitetsforlaget AS. - 1799-4691 .- 2464-4161. ; 4:2, s. 43-53
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Adolescence is an important developmental period. Young people face many pressures and challenges, including growing academic expectations, changing social relationships with family and peers, and the physical and emotional changes associated with maturation. Mental health is a broad concept, including positive mental health, mental health problems and psychiatric diseases. This introductory paper addresses the issue of positive mental health, and how existing data from the Health Behaviour in School-aged Children study (HBSC) may be used to deepen our knowledge of developments in mental health among adolescents in the Nordic countries.The Health Behaviour in School-Aged Children study is a WHO collaborative cross-national study that now includes 48 countries, collecting data every four years from 1984 to 2018 on health, well-being, health behaviour and social environments. Data collection is carried out in school classes via self-completion of questionnaires. An asset of the study is that the HBSC focuses on understanding young people’s health in their social context at family, peer, school, neighbourhood, and country levels. The investment in the HBSC study gives unique opportunities for high-quality research and monitoring in the Nordic countries.The on-going Nordic research collaboration on positive mental health among adolescents uses the HBSC study as the research infrastructure for analysing trends as well as collecting new data on positive mental health. This special issue reports on trends when positive perspectives have been guiding the analysis of available data. The present research explores the potential of Nordic collaboration and comparative studies of school-aged children in the Nordic countries.
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- Eriksson, Charli, et al.
(författare)
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Towards enhancing research on adolescent positive mental health
- 2019
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Ingår i: Nordisk välfärdsforskning | Nordic Welfare Research. - : Scandinavian University Press / Universitetsforlaget AS. - 1799-4691 .- 2464-4161. ; 4:2, s. 113-128
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The positive mental health and well-being perspective represents innovative public health research of first-rank priority in Europe. Good mental health is both a state and a resource for everyday life. Hence, the concept often refers to a subjective feeling (hedonic component) as well as positive functioning (eudaimonic component). Different conceptualisations of mental health-related issues are a background to this paper, which gives a brief overview of three research issues in the Nordic countries. First, the development in the occurrences of adolescent mental health-related indicators such as life satisfaction, health, sleep, and school pressure. Second, review of Nordic methodological studies reporting on different mental health-related measures. Third, the selection of measures of positive mental health employed in the 2017–2018 Health Behaviour among School-aged Children (HBSC) data collection in the Nordic countries. Using the Nordic HBSC data for 2002–2014, it was found that symptom and problem-oriented analyses of mental health can improve our understanding of the challenges adolescents face. However, there is also a need to examine positive aspects of mental health in order to enhance our understanding of different mental health-related dimensions. New measures were included in the 2017–18 HBSC data collection in the Nordic countries, enabling researchers to answer different research questions including analysing factors mediating and moderating positive mental health among school-aged children. Extending the perspective from a symptom- and problem-oriented view to a more positive and asset-based perspective adds additional value to studies of mental health.
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| 7. |
- Eriksson, Erik
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Four features of cooptation : User involvement as sanctioned resistance
- 2018
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Ingår i: Nordisk välfärdsforskning | Nordic Welfare Research. - : Universitetsforlaget. - 1799-4691 .- 2464-4161. ; 3:1, s. 7-17
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The article draws on a three-year ethnographical study investigating how “service user involvement” was constructed (i.e. understood, implemented, and performed) within two large Swedish welfare organizations – a county-based psychiatric organization and a municipal social service administration (see Eriksson 2015). When analyzing the interactions between the user movement and the welfare organizations, a relationship much like cooptation (Selznick, 1949) was revealed. The article outlines four characteristic features of this coopting relationship: (1) The bonding between the parties, incorporating the user representatives in the organizations and their institutional logic; (2) The organizational framing of the user involvement activities; setting the initial rule for how to act/speak, where to act/speak, when to act/speak as well as what to speak about; (3) The organizational control exercised as the activities took place, directing the discussions and interaction to align with the interests of the welfare organizations; and (4) The resistance exercised by user representatives, enabling them to influence the organizations and contribute to change. Together, these four features disclose service user involvement as a “sanctioned resistance”: At the same time as the institutionalized service user involvement controls and constrains the way service user representatives act and pursue their goals, it gives them a possibility to challenge the welfare organizations from within. However, the influence that is permitted can be understood as adjustments within the prevailing institutional logic, rather than changes that transformed the organizations in more profound ways.
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- Grunfelder, Julien, et al.
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How are the Nordic regions feeling? : A comparison of development potentials in the 66 Nordic regions
- 2020
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Ingår i: Nordisk välfärdsforskning | Nordic Welfare Research. - : Scandinavian University Press / Universitetsforlaget AS. - 1799-4691 .- 2464-4161. ; 5:1, s. 20-39
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- By synthesising individual components of a complex system, composite indicators are ideally used to compare regional performance and to initiate public debates. The Regional Potential Index (RPI) provides an index value for each administrative region of the Nordic Region to enable cross-regional comparison of development potential and to illustrate the regional balance. Data from nine selected socio-economic indicators concerning demography, the labour force and the economy was used to construct the RPI. This article hence aims to show how regional development potential looks in different parts of the Nordic Region and how the regional balance has developed over recent years. The results demonstrate a continued strong position of urban regions, while those administrative regions that have improved their ranking are mainly found in the rural parts of the Nordic Region. The large majority of the analysed regions increased their score between 2017 and 2019, which indicates diminishing differences between these administrative regions in terms of development potential and a positive development regarding the cohesion policy. Yet, it is important to note that the geography of an administrative region and the lack of reliable data on cross-border flows, qualitative dimensions, and carbon dioxide emissions influence the results in the ranking.
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- Kankainen, Veera, et al.
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Mundane constructs of the third and public sectors in the Finnish welfare state : A qualitative analysis of the gambling profit-based public grant system
- 2021
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Ingår i: Nordisk välfärdsforskning | Nordic Welfare Research. - : Scandinavian University Press / Universitetsforlaget AS. - 1799-4691 .- 2464-4161. ; 6:3, s. 180-191
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This study analyses everyday value constructs pertaining to the Finnish gambling profit-based state grant system – an institution that channels proceeds from the state gambling monopoly to the third sector. Recently, various experts have questioned the system because of its connections to gambling. Using the concept of mundane reasoning, the article maps out everyday understandings of the system. The study analyses three datasets that represent different mundane arenas: focus group interviews with Finnish citizens, interviews with welfare-promoting third-sector organizations, and articles from the Finnish daily newspaper Helsingin Sanomat. The results show that mundane ideas strengthen the role of the public sector as a primary service provider and the third sector in adding value to it. The article concludes that the gambling profit-based grant system represents both universalism and particularism in mundane reasoning. The arguments provided are important in view of the current discussions about the roles of the third and public sectors in the Nordic welfare state.
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- Löfstedt, Petra, et al.
(författare)
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Trends in perceived school stress among adolescents in five Nordic countries 2002–2014
- 2019
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Ingår i: Nordisk välfärdsforskning | Nordic Welfare Research. - : Scandinavian University Press / Universitetsforlaget AS. - 1799-4691 .- 2464-4161. ; 4:2, s. 101-112
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Associations between school-related stress and poor health, risk behaviours and low well-being are well documented. The aim of this paper was to estimate trends of perceived school stress experienced by boys and girls of different ages in the Nordic countries, and to describe trends in school stress between the Nordic countries. Nordic data from the Health Behaviour in School-aged Children study (HBSC) between 2002 and 2014 were used. The participants were aged 11–16 years. School stress was measured by a single item; "How pressured do you feel by schoolwork?" The participants answering "some" or "a lot" were categorised as reporting school stress.Sweden, Norway and Denmark had lower prevalence of school stress compared to Finland and Iceland. There was an increase in Iceland, Finland and Denmark, whereas adolescents from Sweden showed a decreasing trend. In Norway, the level was stable. Boys showed a marginal decline in school stress whereas girls showed an increase, and school stress increased by age for the whole period. It is a challenge for the public education systems in the Nordic countries to develop policies and practices that provide children with the necessary tools to achieve knowledge and skill, and at the same minimise stress in school.
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- Potrebny, Thomas, et al.
(författare)
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Trends in excellent self-rated health among adolescents : A comparative Nordic study
- 2019
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Ingår i: Nordisk välfärdsforskning | Nordic Welfare Research. - : Scandinavian University Press / Universitetsforlaget AS. - 1799-4691 .- 2464-4161. ; 4:2, s. 67-76
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Background: Excellent self-rated health (SRH) can be seen as an important component of positive health among adolescents. The aim of this paper is to examine time trends of excellent health among adolescents in five Nordic countries (Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden) between 2002 and 2014, including differences between countries, gender and age. Methods: Nordic data from the Health Behaviour in School-aged Children (HBSC) survey (including 11-, 13- and 15-year-olds) from 2002 (n = 19,009), 2006 (n = 29,656), 2010 (n = 33,232) and 2014 (n = 31,540) were analysed by design-adjusted binomial logistic regression models. Results: The trend analysis of excellent SRH for Nordic adolescents indicates a small improvement between 2002 and 2006 but a stable trend in the following periods up until 2014. The time trends do, however, depend on the specific country. In general, a smaller proportion of girls compared to boys were found to rate their health as excellent. Over time, however, the proportion of boys rating their health as excellent decreased, while girls’ ratings improved. Conclusions: From a public health perspective, indications of a changing trend in adolescent health coinciding with the 2007–2008 global recession warrant further attention from researchers and policy-makers and should be closely monitored in the future.
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- Shanks, Emelie, et al.
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Privatisation of residential care for children and youth in Denmark, Finland, Norway, and Sweden
- 2021
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Ingår i: Nordisk välfärdsforskning | Nordic Welfare Research. - : Scandinavian University Press / Universitetsforlaget AS. - 1799-4691 .- 2464-4161. ; 6:3, s. 128-141
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Few studies have investigated the privatisation of residential care for children and youth, and no studies have compared, mapped, and discussed the care markets that have developed in the Nordic countries. Here, we map and discuss the role of providers of residential care for children and youth in Denmark, Finland, Norway, and Sweden. In addition, we explore the driving forces behind the current situation in these countries. Although these countries have significant level of privatisation, they have several differences in terms of the participation of the public sector and how market shares are divided between, for example, for-profit companies and non-profit organisations. These differences are discussed as a result of the historical positions, for example, of non-profit organisations as well as differences in the way the countries adapted New Public Management and procurement regulations.
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- Storbjörk, Jessica, 1977-, et al.
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Restructured welfare service provision : For‑profit and non-profit providers in residential substance use treatment in Denmark, Finland, Norway and Sweden
- 2021
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Ingår i: Nordisk välfärdsforskning | Nordic Welfare Research. - : Scandinavian University Press / Universitetsforlaget AS. - 1799-4691 .- 2464-4161. ; 6:3, s. 142-159
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The welfare state has been found to be highly resilient and protected from retrenchment by institutional and popular support. However, marketization with restructuration of publicly funded health and welfare services is changing the composition of service providers in the Nordic welfare model, heavily relying upon public provision. Sweden has been the Nordic country most favourable for the establishment of for-profit private welfare providers. The present article uses the case of residential substance use treatment (SUT) to outline and elaborate upon the mix of public, for-profit and non-profit private providers in Denmark, Finland, Norway and Sweden in 2019–2020. The comparison takes its point of departure in Sweden, which, as expected, presented the biggest and most profit-oriented SUT market. The other countries presented smaller markets, measured by the number of units. Denmark and Norway had the highest presence of NGOs, while Norway stood out with a high share of public provision and few for-profit units. The article identified the market-friendly Sweden, ambivalent Finland, stable, market-regulating Denmark and stable, welfare-corporatist Norway, and investigated the country-specific factors potentially influencing the different developments. Implications for the future development of SUT within the Nordic welfare state were discussed.
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- Thorsteinsson, Einar Baldvin, et al.
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Trends in sleeping difficulty among adolescents in five Nordic countries 2002–2014
- 2019
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Ingår i: Nordisk välfärdsforskning | Nordic Welfare Research. - : Scandinavian University Press / Universitetsforlaget AS. - 1799-4691 .- 2464-4161. ; 4:2, s. 77-87
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Sleep has been found to be an important factor in adolescents’ mental and physical health. The aim of the present study was to examine trends in sleep difficulty (i.e., difficulty falling asleep more often than once a week) in the Nordic countries among 11- to 15-year-olds. We analysed Nordic data from the Health Behaviour in School-aged Children study (HBSC), which is conducted every four years, looking specifically at trends in sleep difficulty over a 12-year period from 2002 to 2014. The participants were aged 11 to 15 years. The total number of participants across these years was 113,447. A large percentage (17% to 31% in 2014) of adolescents in the Nordic countries experience sleep difficulty, and these difficulties increased from 2002 to 2014 in Denmark, Finland, Iceland, and Sweden. Only in Norway was there a decrease, mainly due to a reduction in sleep difficulty among 11-year-old boys and girls from 2010 to 2014. Sleep difficulty among boys and girls are prevalent and generally on the rise in the Nordic countries with the exception of Norway.
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- Alfonsson, Johan, 1985-
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Dismantling Employeesʼ Power Resources in the Swedish Labour Market : An Ideological Theoretical Approach
- 2024
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Ingår i: Nordisk välfärdsforskning | Nordic Welfare Research. - Oslo : Universitetsforlaget. - 1799-4691 .- 2464-4161. ; 9:1, s. 28-47
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This article examines the changes in power resources in the Swedish labour market since the 1990s and investigates the factors that have caused these changes by utilising an ideological theoretical approach. Specifically, it explores the impact of ideological changes on power resources, such as the level of unemployment, the strength of trade unions, and institutional power resources. The ideological approach is used as the analytical tool to analyse the interaction between ideas and the material world. The article analyses 24 government policy documents and how they relate to the context where the ideas arise. First, I provide a contextual description in which the changing of power resources has occurred, then government bills related to the changing of power resources are analysed. I argue that the changes were motivated by the need to adapt to a globalised and flexible economy to create growth. The reduction in employeesʼ power resources can be seen as an outcome of a dialectical spiral between ideas and the context in which they exist, and I suggest that promoting employee interests rather than growth could have led to a different outcome. © 2024 Author(s).
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- Blom Lussi, Ellinor, et al.
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Governing the automated welfare state: Translations between AI ethics and anti-discrimination regulation
- 2024
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Ingår i: Nordisk välfärdsforskning / Nordic Welfare Research. - 2464-4161 .- 1799-4691. ; , s. 180-192
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- There is an increased demand for utilizing technological possibilities in the Nordic public sector. Automated decision-making (ADM) has been deployed in some areas towards that end. While it is linked to several benefits, research shows that the use of ADM, with elements of AI, also implicates risks of discrimination and unfair treatment, which has stimulated a flurry of normative guidelines. This article seeks to explore how a sample of these international high-level principled ideas on fairness translate into the specific governance of ADM in national public sector authorities in Sweden. It does so by answering the question of how ideas on AI ethics and fairness are considered in relation to regulation on anti-discrimination in Swedish public sector governance. By using a Scandinavian institutionalist approach to translation theory, we trace how ideas of AI governance and public sector governance translate into state authority practice. Specifically, regarding the definition of ADM, how AI has impacted it as both discourse and technology, and the ideas of “ethics” and “discrimination”. The results indicate that there is a variance in how different organizations understand and translate ideas on AI ethics and discrimination. These tensions need to be addressed in order to develop AI governance practices.
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- Innset, Ola, et al.
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Varieties of Marketization : Introducing a new Framework for the Study of Market Reforms in Nordic Welfare States
- 2024
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Ingår i: Nordisk välfärdsforskning | Nordic Welfare Research. - Oslo. - 1799-4691 .- 2464-4161. ; 9:1, s. 11-27
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The article develops a new framework for the study ofmarket reforms in Nordic welfare states based on a divi-sion between “markets”, “quasi-markets” and “pseudo-markets”. The two latter types of marketization have been themost common, and the article exemplifies them by revisiting the early 1990s Swedish school reform, “Friskolere-formen”—which instigated a quasi-market for publicly funded schools run by both for-profit companies and non-profit actors—and the Norwegian hospital reform, “Foretaksreformen” of 2001—which created what we call a pseu-do-market, in which public hospitals were reorganized to mimic the structures of capitalist enterprise. By discussingthe different reforms in relation to justification, the typeof welfare state sector, and the political orientation of thegovernment implementing the reform, our study sheds new light on similarities and differences in marketizationprocesses in the Nordics. Particularly, we find that the justification for the reforms differed, with the Swedish reformbeing justified in ideological terms and the Norwegian in technocratic terms. Contrary to some literature, we holdthat marketization has fundamentally altered Nordic welfare states and the relationship between capital and societyin the Nordics, and we suggest that our framework could be used for future comparative studies of market reforms.
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- Olofsson, Jonas, et al.
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Företagare med funktionsnedsättning i Sverige : en ”bortglömd” grupp i gränslandet mellan arbetslinjen och funktionshinderspolitiken
- 2022
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Ingår i: Nordisk välfärdsforskning | Nordic Welfare Research. - : Universitetsforlaget. - 1799-4691 .- 2464-4161. ; 7:2, s. 108-120
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Entrepreneurs with disabilities in Sweden – a “forgotten” group at the intersection between the work principle and disability policyDisability policy in Sweden is formulated in terms of individual rights and has shifted from a patient perspective to an increased emphasis on guarantees of participation, equal conditions, and active citizenship. At the same time, implementation of the rules connected to the work principle within Swedish social policy has diminished the possibilities for people with disabilities to qualify for sickness and disability benefits. The purpose of this article is to reach a deeper understanding of how the conditions of self-employed people with disabilities and reduced ability to work have been affected through such system changes. The study has been guided by one overall question: Has the work principle, in the way it has been interpreted and applied, enhanced the possibilities for entrepreneurship, or have the consequences been the opposite? The study takes its point of departure in potential conflicts of political objectives concerning the possibilities of people with disabilities and reduced ability to work to set up and engage in their own businesses. The analysis is based on public reports and written policies concerning sickness benefits and disability benefits as well as statistics on entrepreneurs with support from the Swedish Employment Service and disability benefits during two follow-up years, 2007 and 2017. One central conclusion is that the changed application of the work principle, especially in connection to the reforms of the disability benefits in Sweden in 2008, has had negative effects for people with disabilities and reduced ability to work and their possibilities to start up new businesses between our follow-up years, 2007 and 2017.
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- Pålsson, David, 1986-, et al.
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Licence to Care – Licensing Terms for For-Profit Residential Care for Children in Four Nordic Countries
- 2022
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Ingår i: Nordisk välfärdsforskning | Nordic Welfare Research. - : Scandinavian University Press / Universitetsforlaget AS. - 1799-4691 .- 2464-4161. ; 7:1, s. 23-35
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Licensing is a public instrument used to control welfare services. One such service is residential care for children,which is targeted at children who experience maltreatment in their home environment and/or have behaviouralproblems and have been separated from their parents by the authorities. In Sweden, Finland, Norway and Denmark,residential care may be provided by public or private (not-for-profit or for-profit) providers. The aim of this articleisto explore and compare how public authorities in Sweden, Finland, Norway, and Denmark, license residential carefor children. The data consist of application forms and instructions for how to apply for a licence as well as interviewswith key staff responsible for licensing. The findings show differences in how national agencies license residentialcare providers. Licensing models may be centralised/general (Sweden, Finland) or regionalised/specialised towardsresidential care (Norway, Denmark). The process can be more investigative (Sweden, Norway) or consultative (Fin-land, Denmark), and the review of standards formality-oriented (Sweden, Finland, Norway) or content-oriented(Denmark). Finally, the models of supervision post-licence vary in terms of being non-intervening (Finland), semi-intervening (Sweden, Norway) or intervening (Denmark). The discussion centres on the possible contribution of thedifferent models to the regulation of the residential care markets.
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- Samzelius, Tove, 1974-
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‘It’s like they are doing injustice’: A Single-Mother Perspective on Family Homelessness in Sweden
- 2023
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Ingår i: Nordisk välfärdsforskning | Nordic Welfare Research. - : Universitetsforlaget. - 1799-4691 .- 2464-4161. ; 8:2, s. 115-126
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Single mothers with a foreign background and their children are a growing group within the homelessness population in Sweden. However, they are also more likely to live in “hidden homelessness” than other groups and are therefore less visible in official counts, a factor that contributes to misrepresentation and misrecognition of their living circumstances. In recent years, this invisibility has been exacerbated through new guidelines that delimit target groups, including families with children, and put stronger emphasis on the individual’s responsibility to solve their own housing situation regardless of structural constraints. This article outlines the experience and impact of those changes as articulated by single mothers affected by homelessness and housing exclusion in the greater region of Stockholm. The findings presented show aspects of experiences of homelessness and encounters with social services that tend to be invisible in official accounts in Sweden. They further illustrate the difficulties and harmful impact on vulnerable women and children of a system that primarily focuses on exit and individual deficiencies.
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- Strange, Michael, et al.
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A Paradigm Shift in Plain Sight? : AI and the Future of Healthcare in the Nordic States
- 2024
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Ingår i: Nordisk välfärdsforskning | Nordic Welfare Research. - : Universitetsforlaget. - 1799-4691 .- 2464-4161. ; 9:2, s. 168-179
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- All the Nordic states (except for Iceland at the time of analysis) have published a national artificial intelligencestrategy (NAIS) document. The NAISs provide a window through which to view a consolidated point where statesset out a socio-technical imaginary ostensibly focused on the impact of AI on the national society but, in so doing,communicate present-day value-laden assumptions. These future visions see an expansion in the scale and scope ofprivate-sector-driven AI applications in healthcare provision as inevitable, positive, and justified based on a promiseof efficiency. In so doing, the NAISs institutionalise a shift in how issues of participation, deliberation, and inclusionin health are structured in the future. The article asks what kind of ‘welfare’ the NAISs present for the Nordic regionwith respect to the governance, role, and ownership of AI healthcare. In so doing, it reveals how the NAISs providea vehicle by which to enable a paradigm shift in state–market relations that is, nonetheless, hidden from politicalscrutiny through its technological futurism
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- Thosteman, Erik, PhD student, 1993-
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Från stat till marknad : Apoteksväsendet och nyliberaliseringen i den ekonomisk-politiska diskursen, 1968–2008
- 2023
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Ingår i: Nordisk välfärdsforskning | Nordic Welfare Research. - : Scandinavian University Press / Universitetsforlaget AS. - 1799-4691 .- 2464-4161. ; 8:3, s. 219-232
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Den globala nyliberaliseringsprocessen har sedan 1970-talet förändrat villkoren för den ekonomiska politiken. Medan angloamerikanska exempel tidigare legat till grund för teoretiseringar av nyliberaliseringsprocesser, fokuserar den här artikeln på hur vi kan förstå det svenska fallet. Genom en undersökning av förändringen i den svenska ekonomisk-politiska diskursen lyfts två centrala utredningar av apoteksväsendet fram: den första låg till grund för apoteksväsendets nationalisering, medan den andra utgjorde underlag för dess omreglering. Med särskilt fokus på hur begreppen stat, marknad och välfärd artikulerats i statligt textmaterial, argumenterar jag för att den svenska nyliberaliseringsprocessens kärna bestått i att omförhandla välfärdens organisation, snarare än att minska välfärdens omfattning eller mål.
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- Gren, Nina, et al.
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Mission Impossible? : The Moral Discomfort among Swedish and Norwegian Welfare Bureaucrats Encountering Refugees
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Ingår i: Nordisk välfärdsforskning / Nordic Welfare Research. - : Scandinavian University Press / Universitetsforlaget AS. - 2464-4161. ; 6:3, s. 192-203
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This article builds on qualitative interviews with employees in Norwegian and Swedish welfare state institutions and explores how they experience and make sense of their work with newly arrived refugees. The task of these street-level bureaucrats was to care for and simultaneously push the refugees to quickly become working taxpayers. Both as fellow human beings and as bureaucrats, however, our interlocutors struggled when dealing with refugees, who had experienced violence in their homeland or during flight. Experiences of violence and war seldom have a place in bureaucracy and our interlocutors were neither trained nor had the tools to deal with such experiences. We use the concept of moral discomfort to describe a reflective state necessary for the street-level bureaucrats to carry out their jobs in a way they deemed satisfactory. We thus attempt to move beyond simplifying descriptions of indifferent and immoral bureaucrats and point at the complexities and ambiguities of our interlocutors’ work.
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