Search for dissertations about: "welfare retrenchment"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 7 swedish dissertations containing the words welfare retrenchment.

2. 1. Power from Below? : The Impact of Protests and Lobbying on School Closures in Sweden

   Author : Jonas Larsson Taghizadeh; Katrin Uba; Anders Lindbom; Peter Esaiasson; Uppsala universitet; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; school closure; protest; lobbying; interest groups; social movements; welfare retrenchment; political parties; skolnedläggning; protest; lobbying; lokalpolitik; intressegrupper; sociala rörelser; välfärdsstat; Statskunskap; Political Science;

   Abstract : In recent decades, there has been a considerable expansion of citizen participation in protests and voluntary advocacy groups. To analyze this development, the social movement literature and the interest group literature have emerged. READ MORE

4. 2. Contentious countrysides : social movements reworking and resisting public healthcare restructuring in rural Sweden

   Author : Desirée Enlund; Aina Tollefsen; Madeleine Eriksson; Linda Sandberg; Cindi Katz; Umeå universitet; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; welfare state retrenchment; public healthcare restructuring; contentious politics; social movements; cooperatives; self-organization; social reproduction; Sweden; rural areas; New Public Management; neoliberalism; välfärdsstaten; sjukvårdens omvandling; motstånd; sociala rörelser; kooperativ; självorganisering; social reproduktion; landsbygd; glesbygd; New Public Management; nyliberalism; Social and Economic Geography; kulturgeografi; genusvetenskap; gender studies;

   Abstract : The broader aim of this thesis is to contribute to the understanding of the production and reproduction of spatial inequalities following from the restructuring of the public healthcare system. More specifically, by analyzing the contention around healthcare restructuring related to two cases spanning a longer period in northern Sweden, I aim to investigate the changing conditions for healthcare provision in rural and sparsely populated areas, and I explore the forms of collective action that local people engage in to sustain the access to healthcare, as well as how state authorities’ attitudes towards such collective action have shifted. READ MORE

5. 3. Parental leave institutions in eighteen post-war welfare states

   Author : Tommy Ferrarini; Sheila Shaver; Stockholms universitet; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Sociology; Sociologi; Sociology; sociologi;

   Abstract : This study applies a macro-comparative and institutional approach to the study of incentive structures, determinants and outcomes of legislated parental leave benefits. Parental leave is defined as all benefits directed to mothers, fathers or both parents to facilitate parental childcare during the early post-natal period. READ MORE

6. 4. Beyond Retrenchment : Multi-Pillarization of Unemployment Benefit Provision in Sweden

   Author : Jayeon Lindellee; Socialhögskolan; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Unemployment benefit; Multi-Pillarization; Benefit-recipiency study; Ghent system; Social protection dualization; Retail sector;

   Abstract : The unemployed in Sweden today have to relate to several types of benefit schemes. Apart from the public unemployment insurance program, different workplaces are covered by different complementary benefit arrangements regulated by collective agreements between employer and union organizations. READ MORE

7. 5. The Financialization of the Swedish Growth Model : Four Essays on Capitalist Regulation and Institutional Change

   Author : Viktor Skyrman; Handelshögskolan i Stockholm; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; The Regulation Approach; covered bonds; the forest industry; the financialization of nature; financial market institutionalization; European capital market integration; innovation system governance; spatio-temporal fixes; welfare state transformation; securitization; Business Administration;

   Abstract : Financialization, the increasing influence of financial markets, actors, practices and measurements in political, economic and social life, continues to draw attention from scholars from diverse academic fields. Contributing to the literatures on household financialization, financial market institutionalization and the financialization of nature, this dissertation explores the underlying factors that enabled and facilitated the financialization of Sweden’s growth model. READ MORE