The military profession in change - the case of Sweden
In: Statsvetenskaplig tidskrift, Band 113, Heft 1, S. 153-159
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In: Statsvetenskaplig tidskrift, Band 113, Heft 1, S. 153-159
ISSN: 0039-0747
In: Statsvetenskaplig tidskrift, Band 113, Heft 1, S. 140-148
ISSN: 0039-0747
Climate change raises a number of drastic environmental changes, such as soil erosion, water shortages, water contamination and deforestation, which leads people to leave their homes and seek livelihood in other places within or outside their own country. Perhaps the most obvious reason why people are forced to flee for environmental reasons is the rising sea levels and subsequent flooding. The IPCC has estimated that sea levels will rise between 28 and 43 centimeters in the next 100 years. It has also estimated that regional variations in the increase of sea levels mean that some small island states are particularly hard hit in terms of loss of land area. Adapted from the source document.
In: A publication of the Crisis Management Europe Research Program 34
In: Research reports from the Dept. of Sociology, University of Umeå no. 44
In: (Geografiska Regionstudier 5)
In: Statsvetenskaplig tidskrift, Band 110, Heft 4, S. 442-444
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In: Publications series
In: N 1992,4
In: Ekonomiska studier utgivna av Nationalekonomiska Institutionen Handelshögskolan vid Göteborgs Universitet 19
In: Acta Universitatis Stockholmiensis. Stockholm studies in economic history 10
In: Statsvetenskaplig tidskrift, Band 109, Heft 1, S. 37-57
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The aim of the overview article is to encircle a research field focusing the role of local government in the Swedish national climate protection policy. First, the policy area of climate protection is historically identified as a part of a third generation policy areas. Secondly, relating to contemporary governance literature some steering measurements are presented. There is thus an increasing steering complexity containing hierarchical, market-based & network based steering. Thirdly, the role of local government is discussed in terms of reasons for engaging or not engaging in climate protection work. Political, institutional, financial & professional aspects are considered important in order to explain variations in municipal climate protection activities. Finally some research questions are put forth, such as how & why municipal leaders are handling uncertainty in certain ways, municipal leaders as network managers & local climate protection policy-making & implementation from perspectives of learning & democracy. References. Adapted from the source document.
In: Statsvetenskaplig tidskrift, Band 109, Heft 2, S. 143-149
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The research project described in this article starts out with the hypothesis that new forms of bureaucracy have arisen within public administration as a consequence New Public Management-related reforms which have swept through the West in recent decades. The main goal of these reforms is to make public administrations more business-like and therefore more effective and customer-oriented. Administrations are thereby coming more to resemble businesses and are becoming decentralized while retaining central management and control. Herein lies the danger that NPM reforms will have the effect of creating bureaucratic expansion within these administrations. This situation is paradoxical since the NPM wave builds on the very economic research which has been critical of the phenomenon of bureaucratization within public administration. Within the framework of ongoing efforts to incorporate public activity, a series of new organizational forms has been created, all with a need to justify their activities upward and outward. The bureaucratization of these secondary functions within the decentralized level of the state is the focus of the research project to be undertaken. The project will involve three case studies of NPM-influenced forms of management in a municipality, a hospital, and a college. Adapted from the source document.
In: Statsvetenskaplig tidskrift, Band 108, Heft 4, S. 389-398
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The negative outcome of the referenda on the European Constitution in France and the Netherlands raises challenging questions about the nature of constitution-making. How does one begin a democracy? Does it matter who writes the constitution? The present essay addresses the distinction between the constituent and the constituted power, seen through the eyes of three thinkers: Hannah Arendt, Emmanuel Sieyes and Rogers M. Smith. It looks at Arendt's notion of beginning, Sieyes's idea of the nation as the constitutent power behind government, and Smith's proposal of a people constituted through political contestation. References.