Public Follow-up Visibility as Information Infrastructure: Bridge Documents and Documentary Governance in Selected UKÄ Oversight Chains
(2026) SYSK16 20261Department of Informatics
- Abstract
- Public oversight depends not only on public documents, but on traceable relations
between them. This bachelor thesis examines how selected UKÄ legal-supervision findings and subsequent public governance documents produce different levels of public follow-up visibility. It asks what distinguishes cases where an oversight report makes expected action visible from cases where later public documents preserve a stronger follow-up link.
The study uses exploratory qualitative document analysis of selected UKÄ material
concerning Stockholms universitet, Högskolan Väst, Linnéuniversitetet, and karlstads universitet. The material also includes the separate follow-up decision concerning Högskolan Väst’s commissioned real-estate-broker programme... (More) - Public oversight depends not only on public documents, but on traceable relations
between them. This bachelor thesis examines how selected UKÄ legal-supervision findings and subsequent public governance documents produce different levels of public follow-up visibility. It asks what distinguishes cases where an oversight report makes expected action visible from cases where later public documents preserve a stronger follow-up link.
The study uses exploratory qualitative document analysis of selected UKÄ material
concerning Stockholms universitet, Högskolan Väst, Linnéuniversitetet, and karlstads universitet. The material also includes the separate follow-up decision concerning Högskolan Väst’s commissioned real-estate-broker programme fastighetsmäklare and Karlstads universitet’s revised Policy om bisysslor. An operationalisation of public follow-up visibility is provided through a V0–V4 scale. The empirical analysis is based on the following variables:
visibility, visible expectation (V2), and strong public follow-up linkage (V4).
The results indicate that expected adjustments and public findings are included in V2 cases, while no later bridge document was found in the analysed corpus. V4 cases vary in that a later public decision or revised public policy explicitly links back to earlier UKÄ material. In the chosen chains of documents, the thesis suggests that the documentary condition for public accountability is strengthened when later documents maintain provenance links.
The contribution is an Informatics framing of public oversight documents as traceable information artefacts within a public-sector information infrastructure. The study does not evaluate legal sufficiency or real internal remediation, but rather analyses reconstructability in the public sphere. (Less)
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- author
- Danbrant, Kristoffer LU
- supervisor
- organization
- course
- SYSK16 20261
- year
- 2026
- type
- M2 - Bachelor Degree
- subject
- keywords
- Informatics, documentary governance, public oversight, information infras- tructure, UKÄ, public follow-up visibility, bridge documents, public reconstructability.
- language
- English
- id
- 9239158
- date added to LUP
- 2026-06-16 10:27:47
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abstract = {{Public oversight depends not only on public documents, but on traceable relations
between them. This bachelor thesis examines how selected UKÄ legal-supervision findings and subsequent public governance documents produce different levels of public follow-up visibility. It asks what distinguishes cases where an oversight report makes expected action visible from cases where later public documents preserve a stronger follow-up link.
The study uses exploratory qualitative document analysis of selected UKÄ material
concerning Stockholms universitet, Högskolan Väst, Linnéuniversitetet, and karlstads universitet. The material also includes the separate follow-up decision concerning Högskolan Väst’s commissioned real-estate-broker programme fastighetsmäklare and Karlstads universitet’s revised Policy om bisysslor. An operationalisation of public follow-up visibility is provided through a V0–V4 scale. The empirical analysis is based on the following variables:
visibility, visible expectation (V2), and strong public follow-up linkage (V4).
The results indicate that expected adjustments and public findings are included in V2 cases, while no later bridge document was found in the analysed corpus. V4 cases vary in that a later public decision or revised public policy explicitly links back to earlier UKÄ material. In the chosen chains of documents, the thesis suggests that the documentary condition for public accountability is strengthened when later documents maintain provenance links.
The contribution is an Informatics framing of public oversight documents as traceable information artefacts within a public-sector information infrastructure. The study does not evaluate legal sufficiency or real internal remediation, but rather analyses reconstructability in the public sphere.}},
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language = {{eng}},
note = {{Student Paper}},
title = {{Public Follow-up Visibility as Information Infrastructure: Bridge Documents and Documentary Governance in Selected UKÄ Oversight Chains}},
year = {{2026}},
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