Search for dissertations about: "SWEDEN public service"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 163 swedish dissertations containing the words SWEDEN public service.

2. 1. Why Sweden Suspended Military Service : The Policy Process from 1990 to 2009

   Author : Mårten Lindberg; Statsvetenskapliga institutionen; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Military service; deinstitutionalisation; Sweden; Moderate Party; Social Democratic Party; issue-reputation;

   Abstract : For little more than a century military service enacted Swedish values of equality, solidarity and doing one's part for the public good. What started out at as mere military recruitment policy in 1901 developed into an institutional feature of Swedish society: appreciated by society, the conscripts, the Armed Forces and by political parties to the left and the right. READ MORE

4. 2. Private Health Insurance in Sweden : Implications for the legitimacy of the public health care system

   Author : Linn Kullberg; Ulrika Winblad; Paula Blomqvist; Anna Bendz; Uppsala universitet; []
   Keywords : MEDICIN OCH HÄLSOVETENSKAP; MEDICAL AND HEALTH SCIENCES; Private health insurance; Voluntary health insurance; Public health care; Sweden; Hälso- och sjukvårdsforskning; Health Care Research;

   Abstract : The market for private health insurance (PHI) is growing in many countries with public, tax-funded health care systems. In Sweden, this development has generated an at times intense and polarised debate, exposing that the principles on which the public health care system rests in many aspects collide with the construction of PHI. READ MORE

5. 3. Asking the public : Citizens´ views on priority setting and resource allocation in democratically governed healthcare

   Author : Mari Broqvist; Peter Garpenby; Barbro Krevers; Lars Sandman; Anna T. Höglund; Linköpings universitet; []
   Keywords : MEDICIN OCH HÄLSOVETENSKAP; MEDICAL AND HEALTH SCIENCES; MEDICIN OCH HÄLSOVETENSKAP; MEDICAL AND HEALTH SCIENCES; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES;

   Abstract : Resource allocation in publicly funded healthcare systems is inevitably linked with priority setting between different patient groups and between different service areas, so-called meso level priorities. Behind every priority-setting decision (investments, reallocating or rationing), are values affecting both the content of the decisions and how the decisions are made. READ MORE

6. 4. The Triumph of Technology Over Politics? : Reconstructing Television Systems: The Example of Sweden

   Author : Lena Ewertsson; Lars Ingelstam; Martin Kylhammar; Linköpings universitet; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Interdisciplinary studies; Television broadcasting; cable television; satellite television; socio-technical systems; large technical systems; entrepreneurship; Industriförvaltnings AB Kinnevik; TV3; Sweden; Tvärvetenskap; Kabel-TV; Satellit-TV; Public service; Sverige; INTERDISCIPLINARY RESEARCH AREAS; TVÄRVETENSKAPLIGA FORSKNINGSOMRÅDEN;

   Abstract : Based upon perspectives and concepts from social and historical research on technical systems, this dissertation describes and analyses events and processes relating to the dramatic change in television in Western Europe during the 1980s and early 1990s. In particular, it focuses on how Swedish television, conceived as a large socio-tecnical system, has shifted from a traditional 'public service' system to a more open and mixed system. READ MORE

7. 5. Making Public Service Television : A study of institutional work in collaborative TV productions

   Author : Maria Norbäck; Robert Picard; Leif Melin; Anna Larsson; Jönköping University; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES;

   Abstract : This dissertation is about the institution of public service television as it is enacted in Sweden at the beginning of the 21st century. Public service broadcasting – first radio, then television – was introduced as a solution to the problems that arose at the beginning of the 20th century, namely how to control and organise the new broadcasting technology. READ MORE