Sökning: "welfare state retrenchment"

Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 6 avhandlingar innehållade orden welfare state retrenchment.

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

    Författare :Desirée Enlund; Aina Tollefsen; Madeleine Eriksson; Linda Sandberg; Cindi Katz; Umeå universitet; []
    Nyckelord :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;

    Sammanfattning : 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. LÄS MER

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

    Författare :Viktor Skyrman; Handelshögskolan i Stockholm; []
    Nyckelord :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;

    Sammanfattning : 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. LÄS MER

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

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

    Sammanfattning : 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. LÄS MER

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

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

    Sammanfattning : 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. LÄS MER

  7. 5. Emergence and structuring of social insurance institutions : comparative studies on social policy and unemployment insurance

    Författare :Eero Carroll; John D. Stephens; Stockholms universitet; []
    Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Sociology; sociologi;

    Sammanfattning : The Strengths and Limits of Generalizing Theory inAccounting for Comparative Welfare State Development: An IntroductoryEssay. This essay discusses some central theoretical, empirical and inferentialproblems in comparative welfare state research, and summates the results ofstudies pursued here. Frontiers for further research are indicated. LÄS MER