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- Karlsson, Tom, 1979
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The (re)production of accountability within the Swedish public sector
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Ingår i: The Gothenburg Public Management seminar 2009.
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Konferensbidrag (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Accountability and responsibility are two notions that are deeply connected and intertwined. The prevailing notion is that personnel should be held accountable for actions made that are connected to the area which they are responsible for. However, contemporary research has tried to understand the underlying assumptions of what accountability is. In this sense accountability becomes the alignment between overall societal norms and individual actions. But whereas previous research has been content with either an actor- or structure approach this paper tries to bridge these standpoints by engaging Giddens (1984) Structuration theory. Viewing accountability as a social system, this paper focuses on extending our knowledge of how this is produced and reproduced during organisational change within the Swedish public sector. The case used in this paper derives from in-depth inter- views, participatory observations and documental studies of the Swedish social in- surance agency. The analysis is conducted though a separation and identification of structures of signification, domination and legitimation. This paper concludes that the diverging modes of managerial- and bureaucratic discourses, derived from changes in surrounding societal norms and organisational control systems, sup- ports and reinforces the reproduction of accountability as a social system.
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- Karlsson, Fredrik, 1977-
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Weighing Animal Lives : A Critical Assessment of Justification and Prioritization in Animal-Rights Theories
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Doktorsavhandling (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- The project underlying this dissertation aims at analyzing three pro-animal-rights theories, evaluating the theories, and outlining an alternative theoretical account of animal rights. The analytical categories are justification and function of animal rights, the definition of the right holder, and the resolution approach to rights conflict. The categories are applied to a naturalist, a theocentric, and a contractarian approach to defend animal rights. The evaluation is substantiated by the assumption that rights are meant to protect less powerful beings against more powerful aggressors. The constructive segment is an investigation into what extent identified disadvantages of the theories can be avoided by outlining a new model for animal rights.The analyses and evaluation suggest that all three theories are at risk of contradicting the proper function of rights-based theories. Tom Regan’s naturalist account of animal rights includes a logical possibility to sacrifice less capable beings for the sake of more capable beings. Andrew Linzey’s theocentric case for animal rights may sometimes mean that vulnerable human persons should be sacrificed for more powerful non-human beings. Mark Rowlands’ outlined contractarian model, further reconstructed in this work, fails to provide a way to resolve rights conflicts, making the function of rights inapplicable to conflicts.In conclusion, it is suggested that defining the right holder as a self-preservative being can be supported by, at least, the contractarian rationale. That would also conform to the proper function of rights-based theories. It is also suggested that this means that rights conflicts should be resolved by a voluntary sacrifice of the most powerful being. Practical circumstances should be created where such voluntarity is both genuine and rationally possible.
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Friluftsforskning 2009 : Sammanfattning av presentationer vid konferensen Friluftsforskning 2009 den 18-19:e november vid Mittuniversitetet, campus Östersund
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Proceedings (redaktörskap) (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- …Friluftsforskning 2009 - en mötesplats om aktuell forskning kring friluftsliv vid Mittuniversitetet, campus Östersund den 18-19 november 2009. Friluftsforskning 2009 är ett årligt återkommande forum för dialog och samverkan kring aktuell forskning om friluftsliv och naturturism som riktar sig till både akademiker och praktiker. I årets program finner du drygt 30 föredrag från Sverige, Norge, Danmark och Finland inom följande områden; • Friluftsforskningens mångfald • Naturturism och regional utveckling • Friluftslivet i siffror • Friluftsliv och hälsa • Att mäta friluftsliv • Motiv för friluftsliv • Naturvägledning • Upplevelser av friluftsliv • Friluftsliv och naturmiljön • Friluftsaktiviteter i förändring • Planering för tätortsnära friluftsliv I denna rapport har vi samlat sammanfattningarna till samtliga föredrag för att på ett översiktligt sätt förmedla kunskap från konferensen. Det ligger i sakens natur att en forskningskonferens fångar upp och förmedlar pågående och aktuellt arbete som ännu inte blivit publicerat på annat sätt. I anslutning till respektive sammanfattning finns därför kontaktinformation till presentatören för möjligheten att få fortsatt dialog kring det aktuella arbetet.
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