User Democracy in Schools? Comparing Norwegian Schools With Nursing Homes

Trætteberg, Håkon Solbu

doi:10.1080/00313831.2016.1188149

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“…13-14). Using user influence to shift some of the responsibility for the burden of care from the government to the individual citizen has also been identified in various European care systems (Traetteberg, 2018;Verhoeven & Tonkens, 2013). Therefore, the increasing social cleavages involved in being in control of one's own life while also dependent on public services cannot be examined in isolation, but as an ingredient in a potential shift in European welfare.…”

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Does educational inequality predict exercise of users' choice? Survey evidence from domiciliary care services among elderly in Oslo, Norway

Trætteberg

Fladmoe

2020

Soc Policy Adm

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The traditional goal of equality in services remains at the heart of the Scandinavian welfare model; however, in recent decades, policymakers have also placed increased emphasis on user influence over services. Voice and choice are two channels to achieve this goal. The possibility to give feedback and voicing dissatisfaction to service providers (voice) is a well-established channel of service users' influence, however it is increasingly supplemented by user choice schemes (choice), where one can choose between different public and private service providers. We use the case of domiciliary care for the elderly to examine how the traditional goal of user equality is associated with the growing emphasis on user influence through voice and choice. The analyses are based on user surveys carried out by the municipality in the city of Oslo, which is arguably the only municipality in Norway where user choice plays a significant role in elderly care. Since the municipality subsidizes the private providers, individual economic resources should have less relevance. However, voicing dissatisfaction and choosing between different providers may anticipate cognitive resources that are not equally distributed among the users. The survey data indicate that there is an association between level of education and propensity to exploit all

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Does educational inequality predict exercise of users' choice? Survey evidence from domiciliary care services among elderly in Oslo, Norway

Trætteberg

Fladmoe

2020

Soc Policy Adm

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“…In much of the research literature, inequality is regarded as the most likely drawback if power is transferred to individuals (Rothstein 1998, 31-32). Our research does not contradict this point but identifies powerlessness and the burden shift as other possible negative side effects (Traetteberg 2016).…”

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The Future of the Scandinavian Welfare Model: User Choice, Parallel Governance Systems, and Active Citizenship

Sivesind

Trætteberg

Saglie

2017

Promoting Active Citizenship

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“…This has been shown to have Multilevel linear regression analysis. Entries are unstandardized coefficients from multilevel linear regression models (standard errors in parentheses) ***p = 0.001; **p = 0.01; *p = 0.05, p = 0.1 certain validity in the Norwegian school sector (Traetteberg 2018), but not in elderly care (Feltenius 2017). There is, however, reason for caution when offering such a hypothesis in the kindergarten sector in Norway.…”

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Quality Differences of Public, For-Profit and Nonprofit Providers in Scandinavian Welfare? User Satisfaction in Kindergartens

Trætteberg

Fladmoe

2019

Voluntas

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Research on differences between public, forprofit, and nonprofit providers of welfare services has provided mixed findings, depending on welfare state arrangement, regulation, and service area. This paper's objective is to study the differences between public, nonprofit (cooperatives and other nonprofits), and for-profit welfare providers from the perspective of the users in the tightly regulated Scandinavian context. We ask how the users perceive the providers from different sectors differently and how this variation can be explained. The study relies on a large-scale survey carried out in 2015 in the city of Oslo, Norway. From the survey, we identify the two main results. First, despite limited differences, users of nonprofit kindergartens are generally more satisfied than users of for-profit and public kindergartens. Second, an important explanation for variations in user satisfaction among kindergartens is identified in a pocket of regulatory leniency: the quality of food service. This is the only expense that varies among kindergartens in Norway. These results indicate that more lenient regulations could potentially increase provider distinctiveness. Based on the existing literature, we discuss why nonprofit providers seem to fare better in the minds of users than public and for-profit providers.

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User Democracy in Schools? Comparing Norwegian Schools With Nursing Homes

Cited by 6 publications

References 36 publications

Does educational inequality predict exercise of users' choice? Survey evidence from domiciliary care services among elderly in Oslo, Norway

Does educational inequality predict exercise of users' choice? Survey evidence from domiciliary care services among elderly in Oslo, Norway

The Future of the Scandinavian Welfare Model: User Choice, Parallel Governance Systems, and Active Citizenship

Quality Differences of Public, For-Profit and Nonprofit Providers in Scandinavian Welfare? User Satisfaction in Kindergartens

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