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- Barabash, Stas, et al.
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Towards low-cost Swedish planetary missions
- 2004
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Konferensbidrag (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- As a continuation of the Swedish tradition of designing small and high-quality spacecrafts such as Freja, Astrid, Munin, and SMART-1, Swedish scientists and engineers have proposed aggressive but feasible missions as the next national-level target: (1) an interplanetary plasma module (or subsatellite) Saga, and (2) a technology mission Prisma. The Saga micro-satellite contains a separation mechanism, technologically-challenging communication package, and plasma payload with an estimated total mass of 37kg to make the mission possible with a piggy-back launch or by attaching to another planetary mission. The Prisma mission consists of a semi-coordinated dual micro- and nano-satellites flying together in Earth orbit with state-of-art instruments to test. Both projects aim to develop and test new key spacecraft technologies.
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- Blomberg, Staffan, et al.
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Offentlig äldreomsorg som del i ett socialt medborgarskap
- 2003
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Ingår i: Socialvetenskaplig tidskrift. - 1104-1420. ; :4, s. 303-318
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Drawing on T. H. Marshall, the notion of social citizenship is applied in this article to the development of public care for the elderly in Sweden. Initially a historical résumé clarifi es the change of elder care in Sweden as a move from a residual arrangement with its roots in the poor laws of the nineteenth century to become, during the 1960s and 1970s, an institutionalized public s ervice c ommonly u sed by e lderly citizens. It is shown, however, that during the 1990s features from the old model were recaptured through changes in the organization and practices of care delivery. The authors construct a model for making the term citizenship operational by the use of three dimensions regarding access, assessment and legitimacy. Leaning on empirical data (mostly interviews) from ongoing research in eight Swedish municipalities, it is shown that parallel to a formal strengthening of rights in elder care, the status of citizenship is weakened. This somewhat paradoxical conclusion is built around the necessity of distinguishing the formal status of social rights from the qualitative aspects of social citizenship.
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- Blomberg, Staffan
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Specialiserad biståndshandläggning inom den kommunala äldreomsorgen : Genomförandet av en organisationsreform och dess praktik
- 2004
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Doktorsavhandling (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- The 1990s was a period characterized by a strong pressure for reform in the Swedish municipalities. The care manager reform, i.e. the initiation of a position within the administration - the care manager - whose work tasks are concentrated around needs-assessment practices only, was one of many reform proposals. Within a fairly short time span a great number of municipalities decided to implement this new model for organizing the care of the elderly. A central research question in this thesis is how the rapid diffusion of this organizational idea could be explained. The diffusion of new ideas of organizing doesn’t come about automatically and doesn’t take place in a social vacuum. Reform proposals encounter different actors and local traditions, opinions and understandings of desirable goals and appropriate means. Eight Swedish municipalities were studied, and the thesis shows that there were differences among them concerning the arguments used when the reform was launched and implemented. A key to understand the impact of the reform is that it over time was ascribed more and new problem solving qualities. Among the early adopters the model was justified by ideological arguments, and the reform was seen as a necessary element in the privatization of the old age care services. The other municipalities in the study were not inclined to adopt the model in connection with marketization rhetoric; in fact, some of them opposed it on precisely these grounds. However, in a discourse about the need for greater rättssäkerhet – legal security in the sense of the individual’s rights in the face of law – the reform eventually became a solution to a new problem. The third discourse that paved the way for the care manager reform is connected with cost-efficiency. In this discourse the reform was associated with the control function of costs and a more restrictive needs-assessment practice. In the last phase of adoption, the reform had reached the status of a fashion prescribing the modern way of organizing old age care. The second part of the dissertation studies care management as occupational practice. The thesis shows that managers supported the reform with arguments echoing the different problem solving functions that had been ascribed to the model over time, but it also shows that support were tied to hopes for increased professionalization. However, the core domain of the care manager’s work – need-assessment – is contested by other occupational groups, e.g. medical professions. As the thesis shows there are signs that indicate that the power of the care managers to protect their new domains is uncertain. The empirical material consists of strategic interviews and documents. Interviews were held with the social actors involved in the implementation such as politicians, public servants at different positions in the local administration, union representatives and care managers. The documents were basically of two kinds; official public documents produced on a yearly basis in the local administration and internal documents produced in the old age care organizations, and secondly, documents referred to in the interviews, such as directives from supervisory authority, local evaluations and reports from consultants.
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- Blomberg, Staffan, et al.
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The withdrawal of the welfare state: elderly care in Sweden in the 1990s
- 2000
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Ingår i: European Journal of Social Work. - : Informa UK Limited. - 1369-1457 .- 1468-2664. ; 3:2, s. 151-163
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- In Sweden, clear changes in the care of the elderly have occurred during the 1990s, with fewer people being provided public care, although greater efforts are now directed towards those most in need of help. Elderly people are cared for increasingly in other ways: by the family, by means of market-provided care, and by voluntary and informal means. Differences between municipalities are considerable. A comparative study was conducted in eight Swedish municipalities, four of them characterized by extensive reorganization of home-help services, and the other four constituting a reference group where such changes had not occurred. The aim was to examine processes of setting local priorities and adjustments in a period of marked structural change. Interviews with local politicians, administrators, professionals, and union representatives, and with the elderly themselves, were the main sources of data. The process of determining the extent and content of home care services in the municipalities was found to be a complex process, one involving a number of partly interdependent factors. Restructuring was found to be greatest in the context of a traditionally strong reliance on home-help services, rather than in the context of institutionalized care, where administrative decision-making and a medical and rehabilitative perspective dominated.
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- Elmér, Åke, et al.
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Svensk socialpolitik
- 2000
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Bok (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Den klassiska handboken Svensk socialpolitik föreligger nu i sin tjugonde upplaga. Den första upplagan utkom redan 1943. Sedan dess har den svenska socialpolitiken fått ett helt nytt ansikte och ännu under 1990-talet har stora förändringar genomförts. På flera områden har det blivit nyordningar och ibland har förmåner minskats och senare ökats på nytt. Ambitionen för denna upplaga har varit att avspegla de aktuella förhållandena år 2000 och vad som är känt om de närmast kommande åren, bl.a. den nya ålderspensioneringen. Boken är avsedd för undervisningen i socialpolitik, i första hand inriktad på socionomutbildningen och andra utbildningar för sociala yrken och i samhällsvetenskapliga ämnen. Den är också av intresse för personal och förtroendevalda på det sociala fältet och för en socialpolitiskt intresserad allmänhet. Tjugonde upplagan
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- Petersson, Jan, et al.
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Socialpolitik och socialt arbete
- 2000
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Ingår i: Socialt arbete. - Stockholm : Natur och kultur. - 9127075850
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Bokkapitel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)
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- Petersson, Jan, et al.
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The transition of welfare state commitment : understanding the dynamics of contraction in state welfare
- 2001
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Ingår i: Working paper-serien. - 9189604075 ; 2001:3
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Konferensbidrag (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- In the 1990s a contraction in state welfare in Sweden has been on its way and still seems to be so by joining forces. With focus on understanding the dynamics involved in the contractionprocess this paper aims to discuss the transition of welfare state commitment in Sweden. On the general level it should be seen as an attempt to adress the enigmatic and puzzeling questions of: How to explain change in social policy? How to understand local differences in the scope and directions of welfare programs? Over the 1990s we have been witnessing a more sceptical attitude towards the provision of state welfare. It has been argued that state welfare surpresses free choice and that budget deficits and tax burdens have become obstacles to extensive public committments. Closely linked to this (neo-liberal) thinking is the incentive-driven approach to the problems of public welfare, grounded in neo-classical economic theory. Focusing on individual behavior in terms of scrounging, dependancy, lack of responsibility and praise of market-solutions, the new discourse has replaced the traditional socialdemocratic rethorics of autonomy, redistribution and equality. The effect of this new focus is seen both in the general shifts of policy and in research. However, in this paper we will take on another aspect of the transition of welfare state commitment. The contraction process and the understanding of its dynamics, will lead on to the arena of local priorities and adjustments. The empirical data referred to are primarely data from ongoing research of local and organizational processes of adjustment and priority setting in the area of elderly care in Sweden in the 1990s (Blomberg, Edebalk och Petersson 2000). Basically it is a comparative study of a strategic selection of eight Swedish municipalities. Four of them characterized by extensive reorganization i.e. change in user patterns of home help services and the other four, constituting a reference group, without such changes. The approach is largely retrospective, concerning the years 1992-2000. Interviews with local politicians, administrators, professionals and representatives of the unions and of the elderly were the main sources of data.
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