• Accounting, Professions, and Performativity: Exploring the limits of accountingisation in professional organisations 

  Firtin, Cemil Eren (2022-08-18)

  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 ...

• Translating grand challenges into municipal organizing: Prevention of terrorism, extremism, and radicalization in Scandinavia 

  Andersson Malmros, Robin (2022-04-25)

  This thesis investigates why and how municipalities organize to address grand challenges. Previous research shows that municipalities have increased their policymaking and organizing in relation to grand challenges, often ...

• The Profit of Prevention. A study of Social Investments in a Swedish Region 

  Lagström, Cristian (2022-03-08)

  This thesis aims to deepen the understanding of the use and implications of accounting technologies in the governing of public services. It explores social investments, a proliferating public sector management technology ...

• New Public Professional Organisationalism Towards new professional, managerial and cliental roles as exemplified in Swedish schools 

  Eklund, Sanna (2021-08-26)

  This thesis aims to deepen our understanding of public professional organisationalism. Whereas new professionalism is an established concept used to describe changes in the roles of professionals, there is a lack of studies ...

• När idéer får liv - Om intraprenader i tre kommuner 

  Carlsson, Julia (2019-04-04)

  In the early 2000s an idea regarding how to organise the Swedish public sector, called internal contracts, attracted attention from many different public authorities in Sweden. Organising in the form of internal contracts ...

• Jämställdhetspolitik och styrformens betydelse. Europeiska socialfonden i svensk och spansk förvaltning 

  Carlsson, Vanja (2019-02-06)

  The EU´s regional policy is one of the world's largest in terms of budget size and geographical range. The regional policy promotes project activities across Europe funded by structural funds, of which the European Social ...

• Political conflicts - Dissent and antagonism among political parties in local government 

  Skoog, Louise (2019-01-09)

  Political conflicts arise out of, or are at least nourished by, divisions and tensions in society over how resources are distributed between citizens and social groups. In the parliamentary arena, these conflicts are ...

• (R)evolutionära idéer: Förändring i svensk sjukförsäkringspolitik 1995-2015 

  Börjesson, Angelica (2018-12-12)

  Since the post-war period, the Swedish welfare state has largely been based on the principles of emancipation and economic security for individuals. Some refer to this as the idea of progressive individualism. However, ...

• Cross-Sector Strategists. Dedicated Bureaucrats in Local Government Administration 

  Svensson, Petra (2017-11-29)

  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 ...

• Locked-in collaboration 

  Andersson, Johanna (2016-12-05)

  Collaboration, employed in defining a problem, finding a solution, and implementing it, has been proposed as a solution to a range of problems framed as wicked or complex. Collaboration can be justified based on instrumental, ...

• Organisering av standarder, certifiering och ackreditering som en global styrregim 

  Gustafsson, Ingrid (2016-09-26)

  En studie över hur standarder, certifiering och ackreditering används som verktyg för att styra organisationer och hur dessa verktyg skapar en global styrregim där alla är styrda men ingen styr alla.

• Företagare eller politiker? 

  Svärd, Oskar (2016-04-14)

  Today municipally owned companies are an established part of the Swedish local organisation. Municipally owned companies are situated in the boundary between the public and private sectors and that leads us to ask what ...

• De granskade. Om hur offentliga verksamheter görs granskningsbara 

  Ek, Emma (2012-10-09)

  During recent decades audits have taken on a more prominent role in governance, in Sweden and in the Western world as a whole. Audit is used in this context as an umbrella designation for control methods such as inspection, ...

• Anteciperande förvaltning: tjänstemäns makt i kommunala policyprocesser om vindkraft 

  Bengtsson, Mats (2012-03-29)

• Auditing the African State. International Standards and Local Adjustments 

  Gustavson, Maria (2012-01-09)

  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 ...

• Representativ byråkrati. En studie om ledande kommunala minoritetsadministratörers företrädarskap 

  Tahvilzadeh, Nazem (2011-12-20)

  The theory of representative bureaucracy suggests that the presence of underprivileged social groups, such as women and ethnic minorities, within the public workforce will lead to a more responsive political process, ...

• Från idé till politisk verklighet. Föräldrapolitiken i Sverige och Danmark 

  Cedstrand, Sofie (2011-09-29)

  The empirical aim of this thesis is to explain why Sweden and Denmark since 1974 has been pursuing divergent parental leave politics. When Sweden in 1974 replaced its maternity leave with a gender neutral parental leave ...

• Lokal policydesign. Om hur kommuner skapar policy som klargör ansvarsrelationen mellan kommunen och kommunmedborgarna i krissituationer 

  Ivarsson, Andreas (2011-04-15)

  In Sweden, the policy concerning the public responsibility for the citizens’ welfare and protection during crisis is somewhat ambiguous. Therefore, this responsibility will reveal itself in practice during an actual ...

• Mental health policy and the welfare state. A study on how Sweden, France and England have addressed a target group at the margins 

  Melke, Anna (2010-12-20)

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• Kommunala satsningar av betydelse – en fråga om identitet, förnuft och tillfälligheter 

  Brorström, Sara (2010-11-25)

  Everywhere we go we encounter buildings and events initiated by local governments, projects which have motives of making the city stand out from the competition and be placed ‘on the map’ in order to create identity and ...

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