Valuation in Welfare Markets : The Rule Books, Whiteboards and Swivel Chairs of Care Choice Reform

Krafve, Linus Johansson

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“…In these studies, technological devices are analyzed and evaluated from the perspective of enabling calculative behaviors (Callon and Muniesa, 2005) or from the general perspectives of hybridity (Ranerup, 2007). Further, a study of the materiality of regulating welfare markets and the values communicated by traditional devices such as rulebooks has received attention (Johansson Krafve, 2015). Zuiderent-Jerak and van Egmond (2015) take a more critical stance in their discussion of how values (e.g.…”

Section: Theoretical Backgroundmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…This trend is also observable in public service provision where public agencies, public-private partnerships (PPPs) and private companies provide sometimes competing (Karpik, 2010) technological support for choice, including comparisons, ratings and other user-generated content (Gobby, 2016;Graham, 2016;Wilkins, 2012). The introduction of often web-based technologies can be viewed as a translation process (Callon, 1986) in which material devices and activities are central actors in the construction of markets for public services ( Johansson Krafve, 2015;Zuiderent-Jerak and van Egmond, 2015).…”

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confidence: 99%

“…The controversy arises because citizen choice challenges a fundamental understanding of the relationship between the citizen and the welfare state (Clarke et al , 2007). There is also the question of whether citizens are interested in being consumers of welfare services and, more importantly, if they are capable of making informed choices given the often limited information on the alternatives (Fotaki et al , 2008; Johansson Krafve, 2015; Nordgren, 2010).…”

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Enrolling citizens as informed consumers in quasi-markets

Ranerup

Henriksen

2019

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Purpose Many countries today, especially in Europe, provide publicly funded public services in quasi-markets. As these markets commercialize, agencies of various types are providing technologies that support citizens’ choice of services. Citizens’ use of technologies for service provision is studied as e-government under labels of channel management, e-service uptake or adoption. In contrast, by using actor–network theory (ANT), the purpose of this paper is to focus on the marketing devices that are used to enroll citizens to choose technologies in a context with large penetration of quasi-market arrangements. Design/methodology/approach Based on a Swedish case study, this paper uses qualitative data from 11 occurrences of technologies to support citizens’ choice (“market devices”) in education, healthcare and public pension in an analysis of the means taken (“marketing devices”) to increase their use. The study formulates a tentative typology of these devices. Findings The marketing devices are intended to attract citizens’ attention to the possibility of choice (e.g. catalogs, postcards and commercials), invite interaction (e.g. various social media platforms), improve the technological support in line with user needs (e.g. user participation in development), increase visibility of technological support (e.g. search optimization) or directly connect citizens to technological support (e.g. via links). Originality/value The paper contributes to e-government research through a typology of means taken to increase citizens’ technology use based on selected concepts from ANT, and to a discussion of technologies and humans.

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Henriksen

2019

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“…The current educational landscape in Sweden is characterized by a competitive market rationale in which the purpose of education becomes for the individual to perform well globally (Sjöberg 2011, 64). Furthermore, the hegemonic formations of the free and rational individual, which is a figure of thought that has become influential in so many different arenas globally and locally, such as education, health care, and environmental politics (see e.g., Bradley 2009;Henriksson 2014;Dahl 2014;Johansson Krafve 2015), form sustainability in education as a seemingly depoliticized project and a responsibility of the individual. Feminist researcher Emmy Dahl (2014) argues that responsibility for the environment becomes an individual moral obligation rather than a societal obligation.…”

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Sustainability for Whom? : The Politics of Imagining Environmental Change in Education

Sjögren

2016

Linköping Studies in Arts and Sciences

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Global initiatives regarding environmental change have increasingly become part of political agendas and of our collective imagination. In order to form sustainable societies, education is considered crucial by organizations such as the United Nations and the European Union. But how is the notion of sustainability imagined and formed in educational practices? What does sustainability make possible, and whom does it involve? These critical questions are not often asked in educational research on sustainability.This study suggests that the absence of critical questions in sustainability education is part of a contemporary post-political framing of environmental issues. In order to re-politicize sustainability in education, this study critically explores how education-as an institution and a practice that is supposed to foster humans-responds to environmental change. The aim is to explore how sustainability is formed in education, and to discuss how these formations relate to ideas of what education is, and whom it is for. This interdisciplinary study uses theories and concepts from cultural studies, feminist theory, political theory, and philosophy of education to study imaginaries of the unknown, nonhuman world in the context of education. The focus of the empirical investigation is on teacher education in Sweden, and more precisely on those responsible for teaching the future generations of teachers -the teacher instructors. With help from empirical findings from focus groups, the study asks questions about the ontological, political, and ethical potential and risk of bringing the unknown Other into education.

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“…I enlighet med dessa principer infördes exempelvis Vårdvalsreformen inom primärvården (Prop. 2008/09:74;Johansson-Krafve, 2015). Dessa förändringar innebar att de rigida gränserna mellan offentlig och privat vård med tiden har suddats ut.…”

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Valuation in Welfare Markets : The Rule Books, Whiteboards and Swivel Chairs of Care Choice Reform

Cited by 5 publications

References 44 publications

Enrolling citizens as informed consumers in quasi-markets

Enrolling citizens as informed consumers in quasi-markets

Sustainability for Whom? : The Politics of Imagining Environmental Change in Education

Gränsdragningar i Vårdens Vardag : Hanteringen av arbetsrelaterad psykisk ohälsa i det svenska välfärdssystemet

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