Interest Groups & Advocacy volume 10, pp.47–67 AbstractThe weak correlation between lobbying and policy outcomes is puzzling. The main argument developed here is that the puzzle is partly caused by

Scandinavian Political Studies, doi.org/10.1111/1467-9477.12147 Abstract As in many other European countries, the political system has undergone rapid changes in Sweden while a radical right‐wing party –

Politics & Policy Abstract This article analyzes the emergence of the Swedish “national system for knowledge-driven management.” We argue that the system is best understood as a meta-instrument that

Journal of Youth and Adolescence, Volume 46, Issue 12, pp 2421–2445. Abstract Boys engage in notably higher levels of resistance to schooling than girls. While scholars argue that peer processes contrib

European Sociological Review June 22, 2011. European Sociological Review, Vol 29 (2013) pp 155–167. DOI:10.1093/esr/jcr046, available online at www.esr.oxfordjournals.org Abstract Using data from the Europ

"Knowing the Game: Motivations and Skills Among Partisan Policy Professionals", Journal of professions and organizations, Advance Access published September 21, 2016, doi: 10.1093/jpo/jow008 Abstract This

Working Paper 2016 no.1(Published in Journal of Professions and Organization, Vol 4 (1):55-69 (2017). DOI: https://doi.org/10.1093/jpo/jow008) This paper focuses on “policy professionals”, i.e. people whinfluence the course of affairs, while their working-life satisfaction comes from getting their message into the media without becoming personally exposed. The key resource of policy professionals is context-dependent politically useful knowledge, in three main forms: “Problem formulation” involves highlighting and framing social problems and their possible solutions. “Process expertise” consists of understandingthe “where, how and why” of the political and policy-making processes. “Information access” is the skill to be very fast in finding reliable and relevant information. These motivations and skills underpin a particular professionalism based in an “entrepreneurial ethos”, which differs from both the ethos of elected politicians, and that of civil servants, and which has some potentially problematic implications for democratic governance.

International review of social psychology, vol 37:1 Abstract Feygina and colleagues (2010, Study 3) reported that people who prefer the status quo can be encouraged towards pro-environmental responses w

Mårten Schultz: Risk and responsibility

Legal responsibility comes in different forms. Private law deals with questions of responsibility for harm that someone causes another. The responsibility requires three things: That someone was harme

For three years, three researchers and two research assistants have surveyed and interviewed a group of people who are remarkably invisible in research. it's remarkable since it is a category of peopl (in Swedish).