Search for dissertations about: "Lars Trägårdh"

Found 2 swedish dissertations containing the words Lars Trägårdh.

  1. 1. The Terms of Involvement : A study of attempts to reform civil society's role in public decision making in Sweden​

    Author : Karin Gavelin; Göran Sundström; Lars Trägårdh; Felténius David; Stockholms universitet; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; civil society; governance; reform; organisational behaviour; new institutionalism; institutional logics; institutionalisation; decoupling; interpretation; interpretive policy analysis; Political Science; statsvetenskap;

    Abstract : For the better part of a century, a distinguishing feature of the Swedish democratic model has been the close relationship between organised interests and public decision makers. Yet the first decade of the twenty-first century saw a number of attempts to reform Swedish civil society’s role in decision making, purportedly to make involvement activities more inclusive, reciprocal, flexible and consequential. READ MORE

  2. 2. A Risk or a Resource? : A Study of the Swedish State’s Shifting Perception and Handling of Minority Religious Communities between 1952-2019

    Author : Linnea Lundgren; Lars Trägårdh; Annette Leis-Peters; Elisabeth Christiansson; Grace Davie; Ersta Sköndal Bräcke högskola; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; religion; religious diversity; faith community; state; government documents; mixed method; policy; civil society; religion-state; pluralism; religious schools; Människan i välfärdssamhället; Social välfärd med inriktning mot civilsamhället; The Individual in the Welfare Society; Social Welfare and the Civil Society;

    Abstract : In Sweden, as in many other European countries, governments and other public authorities increasingly seem to view religious communities as an important resource that should be included in welfare provision and help combat problems that societies are facing, thereby intentionally or unintentionally bringing religion back into the public arena. However, religious communities also seem to be perceived as a risk and a problem that needs to be further regulated and controlled. READ MORE