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- Karlsson, Susanna, 1976, et al.
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Investigating dilemmas in language policy implementation.
- 2017
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Ingår i: IRSPM Annual Conference. Budapest: 19-21 April. - Budapest : IRSPM.
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Konferensbidrag (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- This paper concerns the implementation of language policies within institutions for Swedish higher education. More specifically, the paper focuses on how the implementation process becomes manifested through language planning policy documents governing how and when which languages could or should be used. This paper explores how governmental policies have been transformed and implemented within institutions for higher education within Sweden. The purpose is to study language planning documents within institutions for higher education in order to disclose how dilemmas emerge through policy implementation. Higher education in Sweden can be divided into three contexts: research, education, and administration. Following Pierre and Painter (2010) these contexts can be conceptualized as welfare services and functions of legality. Of specific interest is the fact that although not all institutions for higher education are governmental agencies, all have to abide by the laws directing their legality functions. In this paper, two governmental policies are studied. First, all institutions for higher education should follow the Language Act (SFS 2009:600), dictating that Swedish is the principal language in Sweden. Also, the Act states that the language of all organizations performing public sector functions should be Swedish. Second, institutions for higher education should strive towards increased internationalization (Prop. 2004/05:162). In effect, this causes a dilemma between Swedish as the principal language and the focus on international actors. The empirical data consists of twenty-two language planning policy documents from Swedish institutions for higher education collected during 2015 and 2016. These are all available such documents to date. The research process was undertaken in two phases. During the first phase, all documents were subject to content analysis through close reading. It was found that the texts strongly coincided with research, education, and administration. The second phase involved a qualitative analysis concerning the preferences for choice of language within these three contexts. This paper draws on dilemma theory (cf. Hampden-Turner 1970, 2009) in order to analyze how institutions for higher education in Sweden face contradictory policy goals. Dilemmas are understood to be two desirable alternatives, that are individually perceived as logical. Together they present organizations with difficulties of achieving both. In this paper, dilemma is studied through the policies underpinning the construction of language planning documents. Following the analysis of the paper, three important topics are found to govern how and when which languages have primacy. First, the context of research contains rationalizations of Swedish as well as English as preferred language(s). Other language(s) are permitted, but are not exclusively identified. Second, the context of education contains rationalizations about the need for both Swedish and other languages depending on the situation. Third, the context of administration reveals how institutions for higher education are firmly grounded as performing governmental organizations. The main conclusion concerns the differing signals inherent in the underpinning governmental policies. The policy implementation of internationalization as well as the Language Act come to chafe against one another, causing dilemmas. It is discussed how such dilemmas result in problems for both internationalization and adherence to the Language Act.
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- Karlsson, Tom, 1979, et al.
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Considering (New Public) Civil Servants: Emerging Roles and Contexts
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Ingår i: Offentlig förvaltning. Scandinavian Journal of Public Administration. - Göteborg : Göteborgs universitet. - 2000-8058. ; 22:3, s. 3-16
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Tidskriftsartikel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Public organizations In the 21stcentury, are increasingly complex in terms of multiple institutional rules, norms, and practices. This complexity constitutes a difficult challenge for civil servants to find and determine appropriate identities, roles and relationships in their everyday work. For this special issue we made a call for scholars to contribute new addressing the roles of civil servants within increasingly complex public sector organizations, focusing on a couple of interrelated research questions: What is the nature of public administration taking into consideration increasing institutional complexity in terms of persistent bureaucratic traditions, new public management solutions, participatory ideals, activist sentiments among officials and so forth? What are the consequences of this institutional complexity for the possibility of preserving a coherent, rule-governed public administration and what does public mean today in public administration? What types of roles are civil servants playing in relation to different institutional rules and norms and various categories of actor (politicians, citizens, organizations) and how do they handle frictions and conflicts? What type of conceptions of civil servants’ roles are developing, including public service ethics? What alternative and contesting role-conceptions and ethics are prevalent and supported? This introduction should be understood as being both a summary of the current state of research in relation to civil service – its predicaments and challenges – as well as being a suggestion for future attention among scholars and practitioners. We have thus written this introduction not only with the purpose of summarizing the main components inherent in the six articles that are included in this special issue but with the hope of also spurring discussions concerning what civil service has been, currently seems to be and might become in the future.
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- Karlsson, Tom, 1979
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Decisions, by Karin Brunsson and Nils Brunsson
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Ingår i: Offentlig förvaltning. Scandinavian Journal of Public Administration. - 2000-8058. ; 22:4, s. 65-67
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Recension (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)
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- Karlsson, Tom, 1979
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New Public Management - Ett nyliberalt 90-talsfenomen?
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Bok (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- New Public Management – NPM – är något som nästan alla hört talas om och har en åsikt om. Inte sällan skildras begreppet som omfattande allt som i dag tycks vara ”fel” med den offentliga sektorn. New Public Management – ett nyliberalt 90-talsfenomen? är en samhällsvetenskaplig lärobok baserad på författarens forskning om organisering och styrning i den svenska offentliga sektorn. Boken diskuterar NPM utifrån såväl ett teoretiskt som ett empiriskt perspektiv. Utgångspunkten är att synliggöra olika typer av reformer som vanligtvis inkluderas i NPM i syfte att fördjupa kunskapen kring vad det inneburit i en svensk förvaltningskontext. Boken tar bland annat upp Hoods sju kategorier, hur NPM påverkats av nationalekonomiska teorier och den historiska utvecklingen av reformer inom offentlig sektor, främst i Sverige men även i resten av västvärlden. Boken presenterar också modeller för hur NPM kan förstås, och lyfter vidare fram den kritik som riktats mot NPM samt hur NPM format ett nytt chefskap. New Public Management ger förutsättningar för att bättre förstå den komplexitet som präglar välfärdssamhällets utveckling över tid och riktar sig till studenter inom samhällsvetenskap, journalister och ledare inom privat och offentlig förvaltning såsom rektorer, verksamhetschefer och ekonomer. Boken läses också med fördel av politiker eller fackligt förtroendevalda.
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- Karlsson, Tom, 1979
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NPM (2.0) - A BLAST FROM THE PAST
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Ingår i: New Public Sector (NPS) seminar.
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Konferensbidrag (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- This paper concerns (re)emerging discourses concerning political and administrative organization in pre- and post-NPM contexts. The policy analysis presented in this paper draws on a framework understood through dimension of reorganization in terms of market and management, positing the questions of (i) which problems are being identified and (ii) how solutions are being addressed during two different time periods. It is demonstrated how discourses concerning “slow government” and “excessive regulation” (re)emerges as problems, and that the addressed solutions are similar over time. Following this, it is argued that an era of NPM 2.0 emerges, where in political and administrative organization will react to similar problems and cope through similar solutions as has been done before.
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- Karlsson, Tom, 1979
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När blir det plagiat? – En tvärsnittsstudie av studenters färdigheter och förmågor gällande fusk i form av plagiat
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Ingår i: Högre Utbildning. - : Cappelen Damm AS - Cappelen Damm Akademisk. - 2000-7558. ; 9:2
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Den här artikeln berör situationer då plagiat kan uppstå. Mer specifikt handlar artikeln om studenters färdigheter och förmågor när det kommer till plagiering eller situationer som skulle kunna förstås som plagiering. En enkät med nio olika situationer skapades i syfte att kartlägga studenters förmåga att identifiera när det kan handla om plagiat. 634 studenter på två olika institutioner vid Göteborgs universitet svarade på enkäten. Resultat och analys visar att studenter generellt hade god förmåga att identifiera enklare fall av plagiat, men klarade sig sämre i mer komplexa fall. Resultaten pekar vidare på att det framförallt är yngre studenter (födda på 90-talet) och akademiskt oerfarna som har lägre träffsäkerhet i sin identifikation. Artikeln avslutas med en reflektion kring undervisning och examination och lyfter särskilt fram tre delar: (i) vikten av att prata om plagiat, (ii) vikten av att arbeta med akademisk integritet och (iii) vikten av att arbeta med akademiskt oerfarna.
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