Injured but Not Yet Dead: A Bottom-Up Perspective on the Swedish Governmental Commissions

Lundberg, Erik

doi:10.1080/01900692.2014.938818

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“…In 2016, the Government appointed a delegation instructed to produce a plan for Swedish realization of the 2030 Agenda, producing a final report in March 2019. This was in line with the Swedish policy-making process' emphasis on the preparatory phase of fact investigation and deliberation aiming towards agreement across political parties before formal policy approval (Lundberg 2015;Möller 2016). The final report was distributed through the referral system in which public agencies, interest organizations and other stakeholders can issue opinions.…”

Section: Swedenmentioning

confidence: 54%

“…Ghana is a republic with strong presidential power through direct elections and a Westminister-type "winner-takes-it-all" parliamentary system (Bogaards 2013;Barkan 2013). Ghana is a young democracy with a less institutionalized referral system than Sweden where consensus building is key (Lundberg 2015). Even though Ghana has had a multi-party system since 1992, it has a history of no-party government.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Realizing the 2030 Agenda for sustainable development – engaging national parliaments?

Bexell

Jönsson

2020

Policy Studies

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This article examines the role of national parliaments in policy processes related to the realization of the 2030 Agenda for sustainable development, adopted in the UN General Assembly in 2015. We outline three main roles of parliaments in the case of national policy-making based on intergovernmental agreements: legislative and policy approval, citizen representation, and accountability. The cases of Sweden and Ghana are examined with regard to those roles, looking for factors that impact the degree of parliamentary involvement with the 2030 Agenda. The cases show that while formal features of political systems impact how parliaments exercise those roles, political choice among policy-making elites and voters is an equally important factor shaping how those roles play out. Yet, political choice can in turn be circumscribed by competing domains, issues and actors in national 2030 Agenda processes. Even if the two countries chosen for comparison are dissimilar with regard to substantive challenges faced in realizing the 2030 Agenda, they are alike with regard to weak involvement of their parliament in policy-making related to the 2030 Agenda thus far. The conclusion puts forward possible implications of a lack of parliamentary involvement for the domestic democratic legitimacy and realization of the 2030 Agenda.

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Section: Swedenmentioning

confidence: 54%

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Realizing the 2030 Agenda for sustainable development – engaging national parliaments?

Bexell

Jönsson

2020

Policy Studies

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“…For example, there has been a relative reduction in the share of parliamentary committees involving both political parties and organized interest groups in relation to inquiries headed by a special investigator (ESO 1998: 57). In addition, Swedish interest groups have noted deterioration in the opportunities to influence government policy-making through the committees (Lundberg 2015a: 44, 56;2015b). There has also been a relative reduction in the share of committees that take on the major political challenges, while there is an increasing share of committees dealing with somewhat marginal and technical issues (ESO 1998: 57).…”

Section: The Swedish Tradition Of Government-funded Committees: Functmentioning

confidence: 99%

Bridging the gaps: linking research to public debates and policy-making on migration and integration

Hawes

2019

Journal of Contemporary European Studies

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“…However, while we know that current working groups may include interest groups (Vehka ), we know little about how many working groups include interest groups or, more significantly, the importance of these working groups as sites of advocacy for interest groups (cf. Lundberg ).…”

Section: Changing Patterns Of Routine Corporatism and The Understudiementioning

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A Stronghold of Routine Corporatism? The Involvement of Interest Groups in Policy Making in Finland

Vesa¹,

Kantola

Binderkrantz

2018

Scand Pol Stud

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While the Nordic countries have a tradition of integrating privileged interest groups into policy making, a number of studies have argued that this Nordic ‘routine corporatism’ has changed over the last decades. Studies of Denmark, Norway and Sweden demonstrate that interest groups are less frequently involved in committees preparing policy, that lobbying of parliament has become more important and that the position of citizen groups has strengthened. However, systematic studies of present‐day Finland are largely missing. This article therefore adds to the literature by focusing on the Finnish case. Drawing on surveys of interest groups and civil servants, the involvement of interest groups in policy making in Finland is assessed and compared with Denmark and the United Kingdom. It is found that: (1) working groups and similar bodies are still very important sites of advocacy; (2) public administration is a more important site of advocacy than parliament or government; (3) economic groups continue to enjoy a particularly privileged position; and (4) resources predict groups’ access to policy making more strongly in Finland than in Denmark or the United Kingdom. These findings imply that routine corporatism persists in Finland to a greater extent than in Denmark. The study augments the existing evidence that corporatism may have adapted to new circumstances rather than being eliminated.

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Injured but Not Yet Dead: A Bottom-Up Perspective on the Swedish Governmental Commissions

Cited by 6 publications

References 43 publications

Realizing the 2030 Agenda for sustainable development – engaging national parliaments?

Realizing the 2030 Agenda for sustainable development – engaging national parliaments?

Bridging the gaps: linking research to public debates and policy-making on migration and integration

A Stronghold of Routine Corporatism? The Involvement of Interest Groups in Policy Making in Finland

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