Stadspolitik i småstaden - En studie av strategier och policyprocesser
(2012) STVM11 20112Department of Political Science
- Abstract (Swedish)
- Economic growth has for a long time been the policy goal for Western cities. Since the decline of the Keynesian economic model, cities have to compete against others – on a global arena – to attract citizens and corporations to their cities. To reach the policy goal of economic growth cities develops growth oriented strategies. In a Swedish context, local politics have often been understood as the delivering of welfare-service, ordered by the national government. However, this study challenge this state-centric view of local politics, and highlights how two Swedish small towns adopt growth oriented strategies in order to enhance their competitiveness against other cities.
By using process-tracing, this study investigates the development,... (More) - Economic growth has for a long time been the policy goal for Western cities. Since the decline of the Keynesian economic model, cities have to compete against others – on a global arena – to attract citizens and corporations to their cities. To reach the policy goal of economic growth cities develops growth oriented strategies. In a Swedish context, local politics have often been understood as the delivering of welfare-service, ordered by the national government. However, this study challenge this state-centric view of local politics, and highlights how two Swedish small towns adopt growth oriented strategies in order to enhance their competitiveness against other cities.
By using process-tracing, this study investigates the development, organization and the content of the growth oriented strategies in two Swedish small towns. The results of the study show that the towns have developed different strategies – in cooperation with informal actors – in order to expand their tax bases. Moreover, the politicians motivates the informal character of the policy process by referring to the necessity of growth oriented strategies; in order to secure the delivering of competitive welfare-services in the future. (Less)
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- author
- Rikardsson, Robin LU
- supervisor
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- Hanna Bäck LU
- organization
- course
- STVM11 20112
- year
- 2012
- type
- H2 - Master's Degree (Two Years)
- subject
- keywords
- urban governance, Lomma, Olofström, competition state, process tracing
- language
- Swedish
- id
- 2275500
- date added to LUP
- 2012-02-14 21:08:40
- date last changed
- 2012-02-14 21:08:40
@misc{2275500, abstract = {{Economic growth has for a long time been the policy goal for Western cities. Since the decline of the Keynesian economic model, cities have to compete against others – on a global arena – to attract citizens and corporations to their cities. To reach the policy goal of economic growth cities develops growth oriented strategies. In a Swedish context, local politics have often been understood as the delivering of welfare-service, ordered by the national government. However, this study challenge this state-centric view of local politics, and highlights how two Swedish small towns adopt growth oriented strategies in order to enhance their competitiveness against other cities. By using process-tracing, this study investigates the development, organization and the content of the growth oriented strategies in two Swedish small towns. The results of the study show that the towns have developed different strategies – in cooperation with informal actors – in order to expand their tax bases. Moreover, the politicians motivates the informal character of the policy process by referring to the necessity of growth oriented strategies; in order to secure the delivering of competitive welfare-services in the future.}}, author = {{Rikardsson, Robin}}, language = {{swe}}, note = {{Student Paper}}, title = {{Stadspolitik i småstaden - En studie av strategier och policyprocesser}}, year = {{2012}}, }