Vad blev det av den svenska korporativismen?

Hermansson, Jörgen; Svensson, Torsten; Öberg, PerOla

doi:10.7146/politica.v29i4.68159

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“…The most obvious result is the clear shift of power from politicians to civil servants, which di¡ers from the general development, described elsewhere (Hermansson et al 1997). But it is consistent with the development towards an independent central bank as well as with the story of how the deregulation came about.…”

Section: Marketisation and Powersupporting

confidence: 57%

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Globalisation, Marketisation and Power: The Swedish Case of Institutional Change

Svensson

2002

Scand Pol Stud

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Globalisation is often thought to threaten the autonomy of national policymaking and generous welfare policies. This article examines two decades of policy change in Sweden, often viewed as a prime example of a fully fledged welfare state. The analysis is focused on reforms within the welfare sector, which is compared with three other important areas – credit markets, the labour market, and infrastructure policy. These areas can all be seen as crucial aspects of the Swedish social democratic model. The findings can be summarised in three parts. First, seeing the credit–market deregulation as the first phase of the internationalisation of capital in Sweden lends some support to the idea of globalisation as the result of political decisions rather than a structural change caused by technical change. Second, during the last two decades, there have been signs of marketisation of the Swedish public sector. However, this analysis does not give support to the simple hypothesis of globalisation. There are quite large variations both between and within policy areas, variations that are not easily related to international integration. Third, marketisation involves a shift in political power. An overall effect is that the government has lost some of its former direct influence. However, behind the façade of the invisible market we find the same actors as before influencing policy. Globalisation can have tremendous effects on power. Whether or not this will be the case is first and foremost the result of political decisions and individual desires.

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Section: Marketisation and Powersupporting

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“…One obvious reason for this is the formal decisions explicitly intended to get rid of these institutionalised arrangements (cf. Hermansson et al 1997;Rothstein & BergstrÎm 1999). But one could also interpret this change in politics and power as an e¡ect of policy change.…”

Section: Marketisation and Powermentioning

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Globalisation, Marketisation and Power: The Swedish Case of Institutional Change

Svensson

2002

Scand Pol Stud

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“…Hermansson's study focuses on the formulation stage of policy making. In a later study he and associates include the implementation stage in an analysis focusing on developments in Sweden since 1960 (Hermansson et al 1997). In this study corporatist representation is analysed in two policy formulation arenas (policy-preparing commissions and the system of in-viting organizations to comment on the proposals made by these commissions, the so-called remissvÌsendet) and two policy implementation arenas (public agency boards and various public advisory bodies).…”

Section: Representationmentioning

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Still Corporatism in Scandinavia? A Survey of Recent Empirical Findings

Blom‐Hansen

2000

Scand Pol Stud

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This essay surveys empirical research conducted in the 1990s on the influence of organized interests in the Scandinavian countries of Sweden, Norway and Denmark. The essay consists of five main sections. After a brief introduction, the first three main sections survey the emergence, development and present state of Scandinavian corporatism. Then the question of the impact of corporatism on the Scandinavian societies is discussed, followed by an overview of the state of corporatism outside the traditional areas of the labour market, industry and agriculture. The essay closes with a brief conclusion discussing areas in need of further study.

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“…The development away from the traditional corporatist model of the twentieth century and towards a more liberal, pluralist model has been extensively debated in Swedish political science over the last thirty years (e.g. Lewin 1992;Hermansson et al 1997;Rothstein and Bergström 1999;Christiansen et al 2010). The shift has meant, among other things, that the key channels for institutionalized civil society access to policy-making appear to be decreasing in overall importance, at the same time as phenomena such as lobbying (Naurin 2001), participatory forums, dialogues and formal government-voluntary sector agreements (Reuter 2012;Gavelin 2018), and informal policy networks (Hysing 2010) are gaining visibility and weight.…”

Section: Civil Society and Policy-making In Swedenmentioning

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Think Tanks: New Organizational Actors in a Changing Swedish Civil Society

2019

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Policy institutes, or ''think tanks'', are becoming increasingly ubiquitous in our societies. In this article, we conceptualize think tanks explicitly as a civil society phenomenon, linking the proliferation of this relatively new type of actor to the transformation of civil society structures and of systems of interest representation. Using the case of Sweden as an illustration, we argue that the recent decades' rise of think tanks in institutional settings outside of the USA can only be understood if we take into account the particular features and institutional policy access opportunities of the domestic civil society in each national case, and that think tanks should be analytically understood as the allies of, rather than competitors to, the older, established forces in civil society.

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Vad blev det av den svenska korporativismen?

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Cited by 14 publications

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Globalisation, Marketisation and Power: The Swedish Case of Institutional Change

Globalisation, Marketisation and Power: The Swedish Case of Institutional Change

Still Corporatism in Scandinavia? A Survey of Recent Empirical Findings

Think Tanks: New Organizational Actors in a Changing Swedish Civil Society

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