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- Erikson, Josefina, 1979-, et al.
(författare)
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How platforms facilitate collaboration across organizational boundaries : fighting human trafficking in Sweden
- 2020
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Ingår i: Policy sciences. - : Springer-Verlag New York. - 0032-2687 .- 1573-0891.
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The use of collaborations and partnerships that engage a variety of actors from both the public and private spheres has drawn attention during the last decade as a promising strategy for combatting trafficking and improving assistance to victims of trafficking. This article investigates the Swedish Civil Society Platform against Human Trafficking as an example of successful collaboration between civil society actors. The aim is to explore how the platform as a distinct organizational form is capable of dealing productively with some of the challenges facing internal and external collaboration. We utilize interviews with key actors and a study of policy documents as we argue that the modularity and flexibility of the platform organizational form are key factors in its success. While it is a robust type of organization that may be regarded as a trustworthy partner, it also permits its member organizations to continue functioning as independent entities.
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- Johannesson, Livia, et al.
(författare)
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How to blame and make a difference: perceived responsibility and policy consequences in two Swedish pro-migrant campaigns
- 2021
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Ingår i: Policy Sciences. - : Springer Science and Business Media LLC. - 0032-2687 .- 1573-0891. ; 54, s. 41-62
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- In this paper, we explore the assumption that blame-attribution can be an effective rhetorical strategy for non-elite interest groups who want power holders to be attentive to their demands. Through a qualitative analysis of two pro-migrant campaigns led by grassroot activists in Sweden, one taking place in 2005 and the other in 2017, we offer a nuanced empirical examination of non-elite initiated blame-games. We show how perceived responsibility influences these blame-games, and explore which policy consequences might emanate from them. We demonstrate that blame-making, under certain conditions, can be a successful strategy to gain policy influence, but that this strategy is conditioned by the complexity and transparency of the institutional arrangements of accountability within the policy sector. The focus on non-elite blame-making in order to change policies enables us to contribute to the theoretical discussion on the relationship between anticipatory and reactive forms of blame-avoidance behaviours, and to discuss the democratic implications of blame-games in both shorter and longer time perspectives. One implication of this study is that successful non-elite blame-making at one point in time actually can lower the chances of successful blame-making in the future.
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- Nilsson, Jens, Doktor, 1982-, et al.
(författare)
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Beliefs, social identity, and the view of opponents in Swedish carnivore management policy
- 2020
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Ingår i: Policy sciences. - : Springer. - 0032-2687 .- 1573-0891. ; 53:3, s. 453-472
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- In the policy sciences, the intractability of disputes in natural resource governance is commonly explained in terms of a “devil shift” between rival policy coalitions. In a devil shift, policy actors overestimate the power of their opponents and exaggerate the differences between their own and their opponents’ policy beliefs. While the devil shift is widely recognized in policy research, knowledge of its causes and solutions remains limited. Drawing insights from the advocacy coalition framework and social identity theory, we empirically explore beliefs and social identity as two potential drivers of the devil shift. Next, we investigate the potential of collaborative venues to decrease the devil shift over time. These assumptions are tested through statistical analyses of longitudinal survey data targeting actors involved in three policy subsystems within Swedish large carnivore management. Our evidence shows, first, that the devil shift is more pronounced if coalitions are defined by shared beliefs rather than by shared identity. Second, our study shows that participation in collaborative venues does not reduce the devil shift over time. We end by proposing methodological and theoretical steps to advance knowledge of the devil shift in contested policy subsystems.
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- Weible, Christopher, et al.
(författare)
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Covid-19 and the policy sciences : initial reactions and perspectives
- 2020
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Ingår i: Policy sciences. - : Springer Nature. - 0032-2687 .- 1573-0891. ; 53:2, s. 225-241
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The world is in the grip of a crisis that stands unprecedented in living memory. The COVID-19 pandemic is urgent, global in scale, and massive in impacts. Following Harold D. Lasswell’s goal for the policy sciences to offer insights into unfolding phenomena, this commentary draws on the lessons of the policy sciences literature to understand the dynamics related to COVID-19. We explore the ways in which scientific and technical expertise, emotions, and narratives influence policy decisions and shape relationships among citizens, organizations, and governments. We discuss varied processes of adaptation and change, including learning, surges in policy responses, alterations in networks (locally and globally), implementing policies across transboundary issues, and assessing policy success and failure. We conclude by identifying understudied aspects of the policy sciences that deserve attention in the pandemic’s aftermath.
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- Wilson, James, et al.
(författare)
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Evidencing the benefits of cluster policies: towards a generalised framework of effects
- 2022
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Ingår i: Policy Sciences. - : Springer Science and Business Media LLC. - 0032-2687 .- 1573-0891. ; 55, s. 369-391
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Regions around the world employ cluster-based policies as part of their industrial, innovation and development policy mixes. They have become a key tool in smart specialisation strategies and are increasingly used to address societal challenges. Given their popularity and longevity, there is significant demand to better measure and understand the impacts of cluster policies. Yet the diversity of cluster policies employed in different regional competitiveness policy mixes, a complex effect logic and a variety of (mostly intangible) outcomes, and few recognised norms for guiding cluster policy evaluation all hamper a more holistic understanding of their patterns of effects and broader impacts. There lacks a common frame to guide cluster policy evaluation. This paper reviews international evidence on the effects of cluster policy programmes from academic and policy literature, which is then used as an input into a co-creation process with groups of cluster policymakers, practitioners and researchers. The result is a proposal for a generalised framework of effects for cluster policies to support the structuring of cluster policy evaluations and strengthen international policy learning possibilities.
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- Baaz, Mikael, 1966, et al.
(författare)
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Involuntary Resistance
- 2024
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Ingår i: International Journal of Politics, Culture, and Society. - : Springer Science and Business Media LLC. - 0891-4486 .- 1573-3416. ; 37:1, s. 77-97
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This paper problematizes the notion of “intent” through the concept of “involuntary resistance”. Departing from the narratives of employees in nursing homes in Sweden during the Covid-19 pandemic in 2020 and 2021, we suggest that neoliberal norms and a local management that capitalizes on social hierarchies (sex, age, class, etc.) were the context of the strong biopolitical state management that occurred due to the Covid-19 pandemic. The friction between different forms of governing became a seedbed for an involuntary resistance with an unclear intent against the state recommendations. This sheds light upon the need to (re)frame the current dominance of specific types of knowledge that are constructed in the field of resistance. We suggest that new paths of thought are needed—within social sciences—that work towards a wider conceptualizing of resistance, which embraces practices that lie outside the common thought of dissent.
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- Baaz, Mikael, 1966, et al.
(författare)
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Involuntary Resistance
- 2023
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Ingår i: International Journal of Politics Culture and Society. - : Springer Science and Business Media LLC. - 0891-4486 .- 1573-3416.
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This paper problematizes the notion of "intent" through the concept of "involuntary resistance". Departing from the narratives of employees in nursing homes in Sweden during the Covid-19 pandemic in 2020 and 2021, we suggest that neoliberal norms and a local management that capitalizes on social hierarchies (sex, age, class, etc.) were the context of the strong biopolitical state management that occurred due to the Covid-19 pandemic. The friction between different forms of governing became a seedbed for an involuntary resistance with an unclear intent against the state recommendations. This sheds light upon the need to (re)frame the current dominance of specific types of knowledge that are constructed in the field of resistance. We suggest that new paths of thought are needed-within social sciences-that work towards a wider conceptualizing of resistance, which embraces practices that lie outside the common thought of dissent.
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- Dahlstedt, Magnus, 1975-, et al.
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Politics of Makeover : Initiating Organisational Change and Positioning the Unemployed in a Swedish Reality TV Series
- 2022
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Ingår i: International Journal of Politics, Culture, and Society. - : Springer-Verlag New York. - 0891-4486 .- 1573-3416. ; 35:3, s. 391-409
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This article reports on a reality TV series, Sweden’s best employment service, broadcaston Swedish public service television in 2018. The purpose was to investigateongoing political transformations in the Swedish welfare model. The series focusesnot only on unemployment, the unemployed and their life situation but more specificallyon the organisation of the Swedish Public Employment Service (PES) asreflected at a local PES office. Informed by a cultural studies approach to the politicsof popular culture, the aim of this article is to examine how the makeover is stagedin the series. The article focuses on how the unemployed are positioned in the seriesin a setting of organisational change initiated at the local PES office. The analysisprovides insights into how the makeover is staged and initiated in reality TVand illustrates how the unemployed are positioned as willing and able to work andto actively seek opportunities. The unemployed are not the primary target for themakeover in the series. The makeover is primarily directed at the organisation of thePES and its managers. Consequently, unemployment is presented in the series as notonly a concern for the individual citizen but also for society.
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- Donaghy, M. M., et al.
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Sustainability Politics and Housing Development in Urban Brazil and Ghana
- 2023
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Ingår i: International Journal of Politics Culture and Society. - 0891-4486 .- 1573-3416. ; 36, s. 329-347
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Rapid population growth in the Global South places extreme pressure on cities, making it very difficult for governments to provide the necessary housing to city dwellers. The short-term needs and demands of residents often contradict or challenge long-term central urban plans and sustainable solutions. Important but overlooked actors in the politics of sustainable urban development are community organisations that demand housing and rights to the city. Yet these organisations do not adopt the same strategies everywhere. This article examines the pathways of engagement adopted by organisations across different urban contexts and how they affect governance. These organisations contribute to sustainability politics by engaging local and national governments, allying with political parties and politicians, and informing and mobilising local populations. Drawing from a most different case design that compares Sao Paulo, Brazil with Accra, Ghana, we find that the ideology of the organisation, its relationship to the state and to society, and the credibility of multi-level institutions shape the success or failure of sustainable urban governance and development. We conclude that urban residents often seek change through pathways of engagement that can be generalised across diverse social contexts, but the underlying politics within civil society can undermine a sustainable urban future.
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- Enroth, Henrik, 1971-
(författare)
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Crisis of Authority : The Truth of Post-Truth
- 2023
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Ingår i: International Journal of Politics, Culture, and Society. - : Springer. - 0891-4486 .- 1573-3416. ; 36, s. 179-195
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This article is a critique of the notion of post-truth. Drawing on the work of Hannah Arendt, I argue that the epistemological crisis suggested by the notion of post-truth is epiphenomenal to a more general crisis of authority, a crisis that is poorly understood in the literature. I also argue that revisiting Arendt's account of authority can help us elucidate the vexed dynamics of authority in modern society, as well as the dynamics behind its current crisis. The post-truth situation is a loss of authority that is political before it presents as epistemological. Effectively addressing this situation, I conclude, is a much more challenging and complex proposition than what is suggested in the literature on post-truth.
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