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Maste valfardstjanstearbetarna offra sig fo medborgarna? -- argument for en konsekvent medborgarratt
In: Statsvetenskaplig tidskrift, Band 104, Heft 4, S. 329-348
ISSN: 0039-0747
This article raises the issue of 'industrial relations' in the public sector, ie, how employer-employee relations are conceptualized in liberal democratic political theory. The historical & theoretical legacy of this conceptual apparatus can help explain why the welfare workers (employed in publicly financed health care, social service, education, elderly care, & day care for children) are hardly mentioned in the liberal democratic scheme. The liberal democratic state traditionally focuses on political subjects as if they all were citizens/cohabitants (in the civil society), when in fact roughly 20% of the Swedish electorate at the same time are citizens/co-workers (in the local welfare state). The issue of rights & duties in direct & indirect relations between the local state & the citizenry is therefore heavily biased in favor of the citizen-as-cohabitant/consumer. If both these roles of the citizenry were adequately handled in political theory, this would possibly cast a new light on New Public Management as well as the current Swedish focus on freedom of choice ('exit rights') for welfare consumers. It is argued that there is nothing inherent in liberal democratic political theory that could block the application of the idea of a neutral & benevolent state to the citizen-as-coworker. A coherent application of the Marshallian scheme of civil, political, & social rights therefore means the inclusion of social rights to citizens-as-co-workers. 55 References. Adapted from the source document.
Valkommen till en ny avdelning i Statsvetenskaplig Tidskrift!
In: Statsvetenskaplig tidskrift, Band 107, Heft 1, S. 85-86
ISSN: 0039-0747
As part of the discontinuation of the Political Science Association's own magazine Politologi, the Journal of Political Science offers a section for the Association. This section will provide new dynamical means of communication between political scientists & the journal, & therefore stimulate qualified debate & scientific publications. Besides scientific articles, reports from conferences & information on the Association's work are also welcomed. C Brunski
Medbestammandelagstiftning i Europa under det kalla kriget
In: Statsvetenskaplig tidskrift, Band 111, Heft 1, S. 48-52
ISSN: 0039-0747
Discusses a coming research project on how the Soviet Union used soft economic power to increase their influence in other countries. The differences in spreading policy and ideas in democratic and communist systems are researched. Preliminary results indicate that decision making structures in youth organizations and workers unions in Europe come from different sources varying from communists to Christian democrats. L. Pitkaniemi
Disciplin, inspiration och anarki: Manifest for en god statsvetenskap
In: Statsvetenskaplig tidskrift, Band 113, Heft 4, S. 402-406
ISSN: 0039-0747
Good political science is about making true and important statements about politics. Its first task is to allow this objective to guide practical research -- and teach how to work. Good political science is not paralyzed by the difficulties of reaching one's own ideals. Nor is it more difficult to achieve those ideals than those of anybody more important. Good political scientists note that difficulties are reflected on them, but never let them reduce involvement in political science tasks. Only by way of exception may good political science consist of a discussion of good political science. Adapted from the source document.
Att studera det onskvarda - om vardeanalys och normativ metod
In: Statsvetenskaplig tidskrift, Band 106, Heft 3, S. 207-220
ISSN: 0039-0747
Over the last decades there has been a growing interest in normative theory within the social sciences in general & political science in particular. Timeless questions of good & bad, right & wrong, & of the nature & justification of the good society -- of what the good society ought to be -- have thus surfaced again. However, not much has been written on the specific methodological issues that arise when explicitly approaching normative questions on social scientific, i.e. systematic & inter-subjective, grounds. Departing from a reflection concerning the conceptual meaning of norms & values -- the anchor of normative analysis -- & by confronting different axiological positions, this essay formulates a few guiding principles for a normative methodology. These principles include requirements on internal validity (accuracy, consistency, clarity, coherence, & intersubjective reasoning) as well as external validity (external justification, plausibility, & empirical relevance). 46 References. Adapted from the source document.
Oversikter och meddelanden: Nya forskningsanslag fran Vetenskapsradet och Riksbankens jubileumsfond
In: Statsvetenskaplig tidskrift, Band 113, Heft 1, S. 25-26
ISSN: 0039-0747
Political science research in Sweden is heavily dependent on external financing. Two institutions have long had a special position in regards of financing research in traditional core areas of political science, namely Research Council and National Bank Jubilee Fund. The competition for research grants is now solid and the projects awarded grants may thus in some sense be regarded as representing "leading-edge research" in Swedish state sciences. Adapted from the source document.
Forbundsredaktoren har ordet
In: Statsvetenskaplig tidskrift, Band 109, Heft 2, S. 187-188
ISSN: 0039-0747
Addressing the challenges faced by the Political Science Society, the editor notes that lack of funding has been identified as perhaps the greatest. She discusses challenges, opportunities, and responsibilities of the organization. Adapted from the source document.
Politik i lilleputtar: mikrostater i komparativ belysning
Fredsforskning och internationella relationer
In: Statsvetenskaplig tidskrift, Band 112, Heft 5, S. 453-461
ISSN: 0039-0747
Att möta hybridhot och hybridkrigföring
Security challenges arising from hybrid threats and hybrid warfare, HT&HW, are today high on security agenda not only in Sweden but across the globe. Despite the attention and the growing body of studies on the subject, there is a lack of research bringing attention to how these challenges can be addressed. This article contributes to such an approach by sharing the findings of a project that brings together practitioners and scholarly perspectives on this subject spanning the threats themselves as well as the tools and means to counter them. The article outlines the Western response to hybrid threats and hybrid warfare. It is argued that there is no single response to HT&HW, nor to building resilience. HT&HW need to be addressed through a comprehensive, all-inclusive approach. Finally, the article outlines how we address these challenges in practice.
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Manifest for den goda (stats)vetenskapen
In: Statsvetenskaplig tidskrift, Band 113, Heft 4, S. 385-387
ISSN: 0039-0747
Is it really meaningful to talk about "good" science? We hesitate. We desire good (state) science stumbling near a positivist scientific view. We wish for political science theory -- and practice as much as possible to emulate natural science theory and methodology -- to be objective, to look for hard facts, causal relationships, universal laws, and by using the "right" methods to reach the "right" or "true" knowledge and thus make us the "real" knowledge producers. At the same time we believe it is important to keep the discussion on good science not only alive but also always ongoing. Perhaps this is an ongoing discussion about our research efforts and research ideals of what constitutes good science? It is our guiding principle when we formulated the following manifesto for the good of science. Adapted from the source document.
Herbert Tingsten - kanske en larofader
In: Statsvetenskaplig tidskrift, Band 113, Heft 2, S. 165-190
ISSN: 0039-0747
Herbert Tingsten (1896-1973) was one of the leading political science scholars in Sweden during the 20th century. In 1935-1946 he was a professor at Stockholm University. In 1946-1959 he was the editor-in-chief of the leading liberal newspaper in Sweden, the Dagens Nyheter. Tingsten's extensive scholarly production can be summed up in four groups. The first group describes the political institutions and rules, e.g. his doctoral thesis about referendum in the United States (1923). The second group contains analyses of political ideas. The third group combines institutional descriptions and analyses of ideas, primarily democratic and totalitarian ones. The fourth group, lastly, consists primarily of Political Behavior (1937). This book, a classic in the study of electoral statistics, gave Tingsten a lasting international acknowledgement. Adapted from the source document.
De dolda makthavarna - politiska tjansteman i stad och stat
In: Statsvetenskaplig tidskrift, Band 111, Heft 4, S. 323-346
ISSN: 0039-0747
In recent Swedish political debate a former anonymous group has been noticed, political appointees in the political executives. In media they are often characterized as politicians and in the last decades an expansion of them has taken place, both at governmental and municipal level (Stockholm). However, studies of this key group are surprisingly few. The study is related to "politicization", a concept widely used in international political science. Not only the expansion (and the recent feminization) of the group is here discussed. Even more important is the changing patterns of careers and the creation of staffs of political appointees that surround the politicians. The changes can be viewed as an effort from the politicians to regain control of the bureaucracy. By studying this, at least in Sweden, neglected group, the concept on politicization also is developed. Adapted from the source document.
Humaniora i välfärdssamhället: Kunskapshistorier om efterkrigstiden
This book highlights the diverse roles of the humanities in the history of the Swedish welfare society. This society has often been seen as dominated by an instrumental view of knowledge that rewarded the social sciences, natural sciences and technology, but the contributions in this book show the significant role that the humanities played in the Swedish welfare state. Various forms of humanistic knowledge and knowledge actors were part of large networks and left a clear mark on the public sphere and society at large. A narrative of the marginalization and crisis of the humanities in the postwar period must therefore be problematized. This edited volume brings together some twenty scholars from a number of humanities disciplines (history, history of ideas, media history, literary studies, archaeology, education, etc.). Much of the current research on the history of the humanities conducted in Sweden today is brought together here and put in relation to international discussions in fields such as history of humanities, history of knowledge, etc. The book is a sibling to the monograph Humanister i offentligheten, which was published in 2022.