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  1. 6. Unraveling the Socio-Technical Tensions of Performance Measurement in Public Welfare Organizations

    Författare :Annika Hasselblad; Leif Olsson; Katarina L Gidlund; Aron Larsson; Karin Danielsson; Mittuniversitetet; []
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    Sammanfattning : In the name of efficiency, performance measurement has gained traction in public welfare organizations. The idea of performance measurement originates from views of all organizations rooted in scientific management notions that emerged during industrialization, as kinds of production units, according to an industrial logic. LÄS MER

  3. 7. Talk, text and institutional order : A study of communication in social welfare bureaucracies

    Författare :Elisabet Cedersund; Linköpings universitet; []
    Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; talk; text; communicative practices; institutional order; street-level bureaucracy; social welfare; interviews; telephone conversations; discourse analysis; INTERDISCIPLINARY RESEARCH AREAS; TVÄRVETENSKAPLIGA FORSKNINGSOMRÅDEN;

    Sammanfattning : This work focuses on the role of talk and text in the processing of people in public organizations. It is a study of communication between citizens and officials in one such organization, namely, the Swedish social services. LÄS MER

  4. 8. Från folkrörelse till välfärdsbyråkrati : det svenska sjukförsäkringssystemets utveckling 1900-1990

    Författare :Rafael Lindqvist; Umeå universitet; []
    Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; social policy; sickness insurance societies; National Sickness Insurance; welfare bureaucracy; bureaucracy; efficiency; legitimacy; Sweden;

    Sammanfattning : This thesis describes and analyses the transformation of the Swedish sickness insurance and the specific character of the modern sickness insurance system. It deals with the capacity or the sickness insurance to create social integration and cohesion. LÄS MER

  5. 9. Parents' possibility to prevent underage drinking : studies of parents, a parental support program, and adolescents in the context of a national program to support NGOs

    Författare :Camilla Pettersson; Charli Eriksson; Margareta Lindén-Broström; Bente Wold; Örebro universitet; []
    Nyckelord :MEDICIN OCH HÄLSOVETENSKAP; MEDICAL AND HEALTH SCIENCES; MEDICIN OCH HÄLSOVETENSKAP; MEDICAL AND HEALTH SCIENCES; Non-governmental organizations; alcohol; adolescents; underage drinking; prevention; parents; parental support; MEDICINE; MEDICIN; Public health science; Folkhälsovetenskap; Caring sciences; Vårdvetenskap; Vårdvetenskap; Nursing Science;

    Sammanfattning : Underage drinking is common among Swedish adolescents and is related to problems for individuals, families, and society. From a public health perspective, it is of great importance that knowledge be gained about alcohol prevention. LÄS MER

  7. 10. Categorization Work in the Swedish Welfare State : Doctors and social insurance officers on persons with mental ill-health

    Författare :Maricel L Knechtel; Michael Allvin; Rafael Lindqvist; Sandra Torres; David Rosenberg; Uppsala universitet; []
    Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; institutional categorization; institutional categories; street-level bureaucrats; discretion; sick leave; sick listing; diagnosis; mental illness; psychiatric diagnosis; moral work; deservingness; worthiness; medical sociology; work capability; medical certification; social insurance; vignette studies; discrimination; labeling; stickiness; social mechanisms; matching; screening; signaling; cognitive categorization; working conditions; conflicting demands; client processing; Human Service Organizations; work approach; primary health care; moral stress; Bayes; work capability; rationing; Sociologi; Sociology;

    Sammanfattning : This dissertation contributes to the debate on street-level bureaucracy, which highlights how the decisions made by workers in public bureaucracies effectively become public policy. This debate has paid relatively little attention to the study of how professionals carry out their work by means of institutional categorization, a knowledge gap that this study helps to close. LÄS MER