“We must not settle for less [when incorporating Children’s Rights into law]”. A socio-legal analysis of Children’s Rights Organizations’ role in the Swedish legislative process
(2022) SOLM02 20221Department of Sociology of Law
- Abstract
- This thesis seeks to understand the role that Swedish civil society (in the form of children’s rights organizations) play in the creation of legislation, through the writing of consultation responses and role in the discussions of the law following its incorporation. The aim is to understand the interplay between the political system and civil society through the eyes of the civil society’s employees concerning consultation responses, using Habermas’ theories of communicative action between the lifeworld and system. This essay has been conducted through text analysis of consultation responses and text posts of the children’s organizations in combination with interviews of employees of the children’s rights organizations. The thesis finds... (More)
- This thesis seeks to understand the role that Swedish civil society (in the form of children’s rights organizations) play in the creation of legislation, through the writing of consultation responses and role in the discussions of the law following its incorporation. The aim is to understand the interplay between the political system and civil society through the eyes of the civil society’s employees concerning consultation responses, using Habermas’ theories of communicative action between the lifeworld and system. This essay has been conducted through text analysis of consultation responses and text posts of the children’s organizations in combination with interviews of employees of the children’s rights organizations. The thesis finds that the children’s rights organizations were positive towards the incorporation of the Convention on the Rights of the Child into Swedish law, but that they however continually have emphasized the need for the legislation to be used generally but also to protect vulnerable groups of children within new legislation and old legislation that needs to be overlooked. The children’s rights organizations differ in how they produce consultation responses, but they all believe that they have some impact. However, the interplay between the political system that stands behind the legislative process and the children’s rights organizations is perceived as heavily reliant on the underlying political motives of a law proposal. The communicative action between the political system and the lifeworld of the public sphere seems to be obstructed by differences in interpretation and priorities, leading to the political system sometimes incorporating the wishes of the public sphere without perceiving the context that these wishes are a fraction of, within the bigger picture of the public sphere’s lifeworld. (Less)
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- author
- Hjort, Linda LU
- supervisor
- organization
- course
- SOLM02 20221
- year
- 2022
- type
- H2 - Master's Degree (Two Years)
- subject
- keywords
- Children’s rights organizations, civil society, consultation responses, legislation, Habermas, Convention on the Rights of the Child, Sweden
- language
- English
- id
- 9086176
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abstract = {{This thesis seeks to understand the role that Swedish civil society (in the form of children’s rights organizations) play in the creation of legislation, through the writing of consultation responses and role in the discussions of the law following its incorporation. The aim is to understand the interplay between the political system and civil society through the eyes of the civil society’s employees concerning consultation responses, using Habermas’ theories of communicative action between the lifeworld and system. This essay has been conducted through text analysis of consultation responses and text posts of the children’s organizations in combination with interviews of employees of the children’s rights organizations. The thesis finds that the children’s rights organizations were positive towards the incorporation of the Convention on the Rights of the Child into Swedish law, but that they however continually have emphasized the need for the legislation to be used generally but also to protect vulnerable groups of children within new legislation and old legislation that needs to be overlooked. The children’s rights organizations differ in how they produce consultation responses, but they all believe that they have some impact. However, the interplay between the political system that stands behind the legislative process and the children’s rights organizations is perceived as heavily reliant on the underlying political motives of a law proposal. The communicative action between the political system and the lifeworld of the public sphere seems to be obstructed by differences in interpretation and priorities, leading to the political system sometimes incorporating the wishes of the public sphere without perceiving the context that these wishes are a fraction of, within the bigger picture of the public sphere’s lifeworld.}},
author = {{Hjort, Linda}},
language = {{eng}},
note = {{Student Paper}},
title = {{“We must not settle for less [when incorporating Children’s Rights into law]”. A socio-legal analysis of Children’s Rights Organizations’ role in the Swedish legislative process}},
year = {{2022}},
}