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    64 % män Kvinnor och män i kurslitteraturen vid Förvaltningshögskolan
    (School of Public Administration/Förvaltningshögskolan, 2017) Kindborg, Lena; Göteborgs universitet; University of Gothenburg
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    Accounting, Professions, and Performativity: Exploring the limits of accountingisation in professional organisations
    (2022-08-18) Firtin, Cemil Eren
    This thesis explores the practice of calculations and their consequences in different professional contexts. Specifically, it aims to extend the discussion on the relationship between accounting and public sector professionals by elaborating on the concept of accountingisation using a performative approach. Accountingisation has been discussed in the literature in terms of the colonising and transformative effects of accounting on professionals. This concurs with observations that expansion of calculative practices in public sector organisations brings about economisation and the perception of accounting as performative. This is a one-sided depiction of accountingisation. However, a gap remains in that professionals’ agency has been overlooked in this relationship. Such a gap consequently necessitates further research in order to refine the argument that accountingisation is not only a one- way effect of accounting on professionals per se, but rather rooted within the mutual relationship between them. This thesis attempts to fill such a gap by focusing on the concepts of performativity and accountingisation in a range of professional contexts. Empirically, the study consists of four case studies illustrating calculative practices unfolding between accounting and professionals in each individual context. These are (I) pay determination for teachers in Swedish schools, (II) performance measurements within an emergency unit in a Swedish hospital, (III) cost-benefit analyses in a social care organisation in a Swedish municipality, and (IV) medical professionals’ reactions in pandemic initiatives in Turkey. In these studies, data has been collected from interviews, observations, and documents, and analyses have been conducted qualitatively by focusing on (counter-) narratives framing descriptions of the empirical phenomena. Based on the findings of these individual studies, this thesis draws its conclusions that (1) accounting can be both performative and counter-performative in shaping professional organisations, and such differentiation depends on the way in which the constellation between professional and accounting calculations is organised; (2) professions are found to be performative in relation to accounting in their shaping of the ways that things are done through their own calculations, such as professional standards measuring and assuring the quality of work, and ethics and norms valuing the good/bad conduct of work; and (3) accounting is not always necessarily imposed on the professional contexts, but professionals may also voluntarily engage in its construction by bringing forth (counter-) accounts. (4) A final finding shows that accountingisation manifests differently in terms of the different organisation of professional and accounting calculations in different professional contexts. In the light of these findings, this thesis extends the overall discussion of accountingisation by shifting focus from considering it as a one-way effect of accounting on professionals and public sector organisations to diverse and mutual performative relations between professionals and accounting.
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    Aktörer, nätverk och spårvagnar: En studie i organiserandet av ett trafikpolitiskt projekt
    (School of Public Administration/Förvaltningshögskolan, 2007) Bernmar, Daniel; Göteborgs universitet; University of Gothenburg
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    Alkoholideologi och alkoholopinion
    (SOM-institutet, Göteborgs universitet, 2016) Karlsson, David; Weibull, Lennart; Holmberg, Sören; University of Gothenburg
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    Alkoholopinonen under 2000-talet
    (SOM-institutet vid Göteborgs universitet, 2025) Karlsson, David; Holmberg, Sören; Weibull, Lennart; Holmberg, Sören
    Detta kapitel analyserar utvecklingen av svensk alkoholopinion 2001–2024. Opinionen förändrades i en mer restriktiv riktning mellan 2001 och 2016, för att därefter stabiliseras. Under 2024 observeras dock en viss förändring i alkoholliberal riktning. Kapitlet undersöker de faktorer som påverkat opinionen över tid, med fokus på effekterna av alkoholkonsumtion och ideologi. De som dricker mest och de som står till höger politiskt är konsekvent mer benägna att stödja en liberalisering av alkoholpolitiken, även om konsumtionseffekten tenderar att minska medan ideologieffekten ökar något över tid. Förvånansvärt nog tycks varken förändringar i konsumtionsmönster eller ideologiska förskjutningar vara drivande bakom de långsiktiga opinionstrenderna. Avslutningsvis diskuteras om förändringen 2024 utgör en tillfällig avvikelse eller ett trendbrott som kan påverka det stabila stödet för den svenska restriktiva alkoholpolitiken.
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    Alkoholopinonen under 2000-talet - Tabellbilaga
    (School of Public Administration/Förvaltningshögskolan, 2025) Karlsson, David; University of Gothenburg
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    Alkoholpolitiken som styrmedel – Tabellbilaga
    (School of Public Administration/Förvaltningshögskolan, 2024) Karlsson, David; University of Gothenburg; SOM-instutet
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    Alla följer partilinjen - en studie om hur kommunpolitiker tolkar sitt mandat i praktiken
    (School of Public Administration/Förvaltningshögskolan, 2011) Skoog, Louise; Göteborgs universitet; University of Gothenburg
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    Alternativa politiska organisationer. En studie om kommuner som avskaffar sina facknämnder och inrättar fullmäktigeberedningar och styrelseutskott
    (Sveriges Kommuner och Landsting (SKL), 2009) Karlsson, David; Rommel, Olof; Svensson, Johan; Göteborgs universitet; University of Gothenburg
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    And Now For Something Completely Different… Disposing of pacta sunt servanda through an obiter dictum
    (School of Public Administration/Förvaltningshögskolan, 2022-02) Östlund, Allison; Hallberg, Jonas; Göteborgs universitet; University of Gothenburg
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    Ändamålsenlig organisering. Stadsdelsförvaltning, målkomplexitet och förändrad omvärld
    (School of Public Administration/Förvaltningshögskolan, 2015) Kastberg, Gustaf; Göteborgs universitet; University of Gothenburg
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    Är ni med på noterna? En studie om kommunala redovisningsval och notavvikelser
    (School of Public Administration/Förvaltningshögskolan, 2014-08) Bjerhem, Oliver; Rundblom Andersson, Peter; Göteborgs universitet; University of Gothenburg
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    Att förstå EBP – Översättningar av idén om en evidensbaserad praktik i den svenska socialtjänsten
    (School of Public Administration/Förvaltningshögskolan, 2016) Odhnoff, Carl; Göteborgs universitet; University of Gothenburg
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    Att styra på tvären. Tre studer om tvärsektoriell koordinering och dess aktörer i offentlig förvaltning
    (School of Public Administration/Förvaltningshögskolan, 2020) Holmgren Jonsson, Anton; Jonsson, Johanna; Massie, Josephine; Svensson, Petra; Göteborgs universitet; University of Gothenburg
    Idag uppfattas alltfler frågor som komplexa och som i behov av strategisk samordning och tvärsektoriell koordinering. Detta har gett till upphov till nya roller och professioner i den offentliga förvaltningen. Dessa kallas ofta strateger och samordnare och återfinns på alla nivåer i den offentliga sektorn. Forskningen om dessa roller är mycket begränsad, dock finns ett stort behov av fördjupning av de utmaningar som aktörerna möter. I denna rapport presenteras tre fördjupande studier på detta tema. Anton Holmgren Jonsson undersöker hur kommunala politiker förhåller sig till sina jämställdhetsstrateger och huruvida strategerna fungerar som styrinstrument för den beslutade politiska inriktningen. Johanna Jansson utforskar hur folkhälsostrateger hanterar och formar sin professionella roll då förväntningarna på vad de ska göra inte alltid är tydliga och konsekventa. Josephine Massie studerar hur nationella samordnare fungerar som styrinstrument mellan olika administrativa nivåer. Dessa studier är skrivna som examensarbeten inom masterprogrammet i offentlig förvaltning under år 2016. Författarna är alla pol. master vid Förvaltningshögskolan, Göteborgs universitet och har idag (januari 2020) olika roller inom statlig, regional och kommunal offentlig förvaltning. Rapportens redaktör, Petra Svensson, är fil. dr i offentlig förvaltning med inriktning mot tvärsektoriell styrning och organisering och handledde arbetet med de tre studierna.
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    Auditing the African State. International Standards and Local Adjustments
    (2012-01-09) Gustavson, Maria
    Norms for how to create accountability within the public sector have long historic roots in organizing the democratic society, where auditors are particular public servants controlling the rest of the public sector performance. Significant divergent understandings of the establishment and development of such accountability mechanisms within states in Sub-Saharan African countries however exists within two different bodies of literature. Due to negative historic experiences and failures of public administration reforms in Sub-Saharan Africa, several scholars within the development literature argue for the necessity of developing unique administrative structures that encompass the specific character of their societies. Due to lack of legitimacy and due to significant differences between Western countries and Sub-Saharan Africa, Western models are regarded to not be appropriate in these contexts. In contrast, in a strand of the organization literature, scholars claim that an observed behavior among organizations is their desire to become legitimate within their field of similar organizations, which in turn leads to homogenization among organizations, in structure and in practice, regardless of the geographical location. The thesis presents a study of the public audit arenas in Sub-Saharan Africa and of the Supreme Audit Institutions in Namibia and Botswana, where the above presented theories are tested. The results reveal a strong professional identity among African auditors, where they constantly reform their organizations to better encompass the requirements in the internationally described norms for auditing. Local circumstances were regarded by the auditors in general as obstacles, which they strived to overcome in order to achieve more legitimacy within their organizational field. The results of the study contrasts to much in the contemporary development literature describing African public sector organizations, and provides new insights on how to understand public sector reforms in Sub-Saharan Africa.
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    Beslutsanalys och prognosmodeller. Simulering och fallstudier
    (School of Public Administration/Förvaltningshögskolan, 2020) Palma, Alexis; Salas, Osvaldo; Göteborgs universitet; University of Gothenburg
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    Between hierarchy, market and networks. The case of public utility and care for the elderly in Sweden
    (School of Public Administration/Förvaltningshögskolan, 2014) Montin, Stig; Göteborgs universitet; University of Gothenburg
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    Cross-Sector Strategists. Dedicated Bureaucrats in Local Government Administration
    (2017-11-29) Svensson, Petra
    It is argued that political-administrative organizations are becoming increasingly complex with more horizontal governance required. In Swedish municipal administration, there is a group of administrators assigned the task of monitoring and promoting strategic topics that should be integrated horizontally within the organization. Examples of strategic topics are sustainability, safety/security, diversity, children/youth, public health, human rights, and gender equality. In the thesis, these administrators are called cross-sector strategists. The purpose of this dissertation is to explore how cross-sector strategists become a part of the political-administrative organization when representing, enacting, and reflecting on values in the undertaking of their formal posts. They are situated between the tradition of vertical governance, with formal procedures and hierarchy as its foundation, and the tradition of horizontal governance, with informal networks and deliberation as its foundation. Previous research has shown that this is likely to give rise to value conflicts, and the question is if cross-sector strategists experience value conflicts, and if so, how they cope with them. The cross-sector strategists are studied in this thesis from the perspective of situated agency – focusing on both the contextual expectations of the cross-sector strategists and on their internal reflections to solve value conflicts – in order to explore their process of becoming a part of the local government administration. A mixed-methods design is applied, containing analysis of job advertisements for cross-sector strategists, public managers, and social workers; in-depth interviews with cross-sector strategists; and a survey of professional networks for cross-sector strategists. The results show that cross-sector strategists are subjects to ambivalent and often-contradictory contextual expectations. Cross-sector strategists use the ambivalence of their work for their strategic purposes, and such ambivalence allows them to reframe their topics, their methods, their arguments, and their identity according to current situation in order to increase the impact of their assigned topics and diminish the inner conflict of wanting to be both a responsive bureaucrat and an active lobbyist. Combining these two dedications requires them to be highly reflexive and flexible actors. The outcome of cross-sector strategists’ coping with value conflicts can be interpreted in two ways: 1) as if the cross-sector strategists are a formal tool to safeguard crucial democratic and ethical values due to the cross-sector strategists’ method of sneaking the strategic policy areas into the organization. Or 2) as a to democracy risky administrative behavior in the long-term due to the disguising of value conflicts and diminished possibilities to process these value conflicts.