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- Djerf-Pierre, Monika, 1961, et al.
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Mediatised local government: Social media activity and media strategies among local government officials 1989–2010
- 2016
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Ingår i: Policy and politics. - 0305-5736 .- 1470-8442. ; 44:1, s. 59-77
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The article examines how local government officials in Sweden use social media and to what extent the emergence of social media has altered the relationship to conventional news media. The article examines the development of local government-media relations across time on the basis of a unique survey-based data set comparing the local political and administrative leadership’s media strategies in 1989 and 2010. The 2010 survey also included questions on how local officials in Sweden use social media in their work, that is, Facebook, Twitter and blogs. The results show that local officials have appropriated social media in their work, but only to a moderate extent. Local officials engage in social media if and when the local government becomes the target of social media scrutiny. Our study also demonstrates that social media have not replaced conventional media as a means of communication with constituencies. Indeed, officials who are active social media users have more contacts with conventional media compared to less active officials. Social media thus contribute to an intensification of the mediatisation of local governance rather than replacing conventional media in local political communication.
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- Bramwell, Allison, et al.
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New Community Spaces: Institutionalized Collaboration in the Greater Toronto Area
- 2017
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Ingår i: Urban Affairs Review. - : SAGE Publications. - 1078-0874 .- 1552-8332. ; 53:3, s. 603-627
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This article examines community-driven forms of institutionalized collaboration at the regional scale. We advance a generic and scalable framework that captures not only participants and incentives but also the structures and processes that shape urban policy objectives. This framework allows us to track implementation and adaptation, and to assess institutional viability, legitimacy, and performance over time. We find that the Greater Toronto CivicAction Alliance represents a durable and high-performing place-based alliance of social, economic, and political actors dedicated to regional development strategies that include growth and equity goals. Yet the CivicAction Alliance is not a governing coalition. Elite dominance of the policy agenda, value-based tensions, and weak linkages between elected and civic leaders indicate that governance challenges with important democratic implications remain.
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- Brenton, Scott, et al.
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Budget surplus goal experiments in Australia and Sweden
- 2017
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Ingår i: New Political Economy. - : Informa UK Limited. - 1356-3467 .- 1469-9923. ; 22:5, s. 557-572
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- From the mid-1990s until the 2008 financial crisis, two countries, each with different political, administrative and capitalist traditions, embarked on a radical macroeconomic policy experiment. Australia and Sweden took earlier New Public Management reforms to an ideological extreme, and pursued a profit-like goal for the public sector, in promising and delivering annual budget surpluses. From a historical institutionalist perspective, we challenge existing public choice theories and the guardian-spender framework to show how fears of crisis, party dynamics and ideological reassessments on the centre-left, and the elevation of finance and economics ministers and ministries resulted in an unlikely political and electoral consensus. Furthermore, this occurred without constitutionalised or officially strict rules, as has been the trend in other countries, but was achieved through less formal yet influential ‘rules of the game’ with stricter interpretations. What is even more perplexing is that Australia and Sweden do not have superior economic records to show for this experiment and experienced the same challenges as other countries during the 2008 financial crisis. Yet, they are still reluctant to definitely abandon the policy.
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- De Fine Licht, Jenny, 1982, et al.
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Influence as the key to consent? Swedish director generals’ perceptions of reporting requirements
- 2019
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Ingår i: International Journal of Public Sector Management. - 0951-3558. ; 32:4, s. 388-402
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- © 2019, Emerald Publishing Limited. Purpose: Performance measurements have become a prominent part of government steering of public agencies. At the same time, they are increasingly criticized for creating heavy administrative burdens. The purpose of this paper is to argue that consent on part of the heads of agencies is vital for making performance measurement an efficient tool for not only control but also organizational learning. Design/methodology/approach: The paper reports a survey with a nearly total sample of Swedish Director Generals. Findings: Findings suggest that Director Generals who feel that they are able to influence the goals and indicators of their agencies are significantly more willing to consent to the government’s reporting requirements. Originality/value: The paper suggests that a more encompassing, interactive and participatory process might increase agency consent with reporting requirements.
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- Dickinson, Helen, et al.
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Between substance and governance: Healthcare governance and the limits to reform
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Ingår i: Journal of Health Organization and Management. - 1477-7266. ; 30:1, s. 1-9
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Purpose - Many developed countries have seen significant reforms of their health systems for the last few decades. Despite extensive investment in these changes, health systems still face a range of challenges which reform efforts do not seem to have overcome. The purpose of this paper is to argue that there are two particular reasons, which go beyond the standard explanations of changing demographics and disease profiles. Design/methodology/approach - The paper is a commentary based on the literature. Findings - The first explanation relates to the relationship between substantive health care reform and governance reform. These are intertwined processes and the pattern of interaction has distorted both types of reform. Second, reform has multiple meanings and may sometimes be more of an intra-organizational ritual and routine than a coherent plan aiming to bring about particular changes. As such, part of the reason why reform so frequently fails to bring about change is that it was not actually intended to bring about specific changes in the first place. The limited success of reform in recent years, the authors argue, has been a result of the fact that reform has focused too much on the substantive aspects of healthcare, while ignoring the governance aspect of the sector. Originality/value - As a result, governance has often been obstructed by interest groups inside the system, resulting in paralysis. The authors conclude by arguing that substantive reform of public organizations without an accompanying reassessment of the governance of these organizations are more likely to fail, compared to more comprehensive reform efforts.
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- Galaz, Victor, 1976, et al.
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"Superconnected, Complex and Ultrafast: Governance of Hyperfunctionality in Financial Markets"
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Ingår i: Complexity, Governance and Networks. - : Universitatsbibliothek Bamberg. - 2214-3009 .- 2214-2991. ; 3:2, s. 12-28
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Increased trading with financial instruments, new actors and novel technologies are changing the nature of financial markets making trade faster, more information dense and more globalized than ever. These changes in financial markets are not incremental and linear, but transformative with the emergence of a new “machine-ecology” with intricate system behavior and new forms of systemic financial risks. We argue that the nature of these changes pose fundamentally new challenges to governance as they require policy-makers to respond to system properties characterized by not only complex causality, but also extreme connectivity (i.e. global), ultra-speed (i.e. micro-seconds) and “hyperfunctionality”. Governance can fail at the system level if a subsystem performs its function to such an extreme; this could jeopardize the efficiency of the system as a whole. We elaborate in what ways governance scholars can approach these issues, and explore the types of strategies policy-makers around the world use to address these new financial risks. We conclude by pointing out what we perceive as critical research fronts in this domain.
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