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Andersson, Cornelia LU (2022) STVK02 20221
Department of Political Science
Abstract
This thesis looks at strategies for political control of state funded research by analysing the government’s research and innovation propositions from 2008, 2012, 2016 and 2020. The focus of the thesis is on the tension between academic freedom, political control and use of research and democracy and whether the state in any way controls the content of research. The thesis also answers the question of whether the strategies differ depending on the political ideology of the government. Different forms of public administration control, based on Lennart Lundquist’s theories, are used as a tool for the analysis. The results show that there is a pluralism of strategies for political control of research. The state controls both economic and... (More)
This thesis looks at strategies for political control of state funded research by analysing the government’s research and innovation propositions from 2008, 2012, 2016 and 2020. The focus of the thesis is on the tension between academic freedom, political control and use of research and democracy and whether the state in any way controls the content of research. The thesis also answers the question of whether the strategies differ depending on the political ideology of the government. Different forms of public administration control, based on Lennart Lundquist’s theories, are used as a tool for the analysis. The results show that there is a pluralism of strategies for political control of research. The state controls both economic and organisational conditions for research and in some cases, the government also controls the content of the research. The most common forms of control are through information and specific allocations of research funding. The social democratic government also introduces control by auditing and a trust-based control. (Less)
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author
Andersson, Cornelia LU
supervisor
organization
alternative title
En undersökning om statliga strategier för styrning av forskning
course
STVK02 20221
year
type
M2 - Bachelor Degree
subject
keywords
styrning, forskningspolitik, offentlig förvaltning, akademisk frihet, forskningsproposition
language
Swedish
id
9080075
date added to LUP
2022-07-03 08:00:40
date last changed
2022-07-03 08:00:40
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  abstract     = {{This thesis looks at strategies for political control of state funded research by analysing the government’s research and innovation propositions from 2008, 2012, 2016 and 2020. The focus of the thesis is on the tension between academic freedom, political control and use of research and democracy and whether the state in any way controls the content of research. The thesis also answers the question of whether the strategies differ depending on the political ideology of the government. Different forms of public administration control, based on Lennart Lundquist’s theories, are used as a tool for the analysis. The results show that there is a pluralism of strategies for political control of research. The state controls both economic and organisational conditions for research and in some cases, the government also controls the content of the research. The most common forms of control are through information and specific allocations of research funding. The social democratic government also introduces control by auditing and a trust-based control.}},
  author       = {{Andersson, Cornelia}},
  language     = {{swe}},
  note         = {{Student Paper}},
  title        = {{Akademisk frihet, men...}},
  year         = {{2022}},
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