Collaboration, from Thought to Modeled Subjects - Government Analytics of Inter-Organizational Collaboration in Swedish Labor Market Policy
(2024) WPMM41 20241School of Social Work
- Abstract
- This thesis aimed to examine how the government accomplishes governance of collaborative constellations of municipalities and the Public Employment Services in Swedish labor market policy following the reformation in 2022, coinciding with new guidelines for collaboration between the parties. This objective was approached with a theoretical framework based on Foucault’s theorization of governance. It has utilized a qualitative content analysis method to analyze empirical material consisting of parliamentary records, reports from the advisory committee Delegationen för unga och nyanlända till arbete, and agreements on collaboration between municipalities and PES from the timeframe 2020-01-01 to 2023-12-31. Collaboration was legitimized by a... (More)
- This thesis aimed to examine how the government accomplishes governance of collaborative constellations of municipalities and the Public Employment Services in Swedish labor market policy following the reformation in 2022, coinciding with new guidelines for collaboration between the parties. This objective was approached with a theoretical framework based on Foucault’s theorization of governance. It has utilized a qualitative content analysis method to analyze empirical material consisting of parliamentary records, reports from the advisory committee Delegationen för unga och nyanlända till arbete, and agreements on collaboration between municipalities and PES from the timeframe 2020-01-01 to 2023-12-31. Collaboration was legitimized by a conception of collaboration between Public Employment Services and municipalities to ensure the provision of adequate and equivalent services throughout the country following the labor market policy reform. It was argued that the introduced collaboration model was purposefully assembled to adapt collaboration to changed conditions following the policy reform and align the scales of government by introducing uniformity and consensus. Standardized agreements were found to be devised to subvert the subjectivities of the organizations through delimitation of responsibility and uniformity. Public Employment Services commonly assume a subjectivity corresponding to their statutory obligations, whereas municipalities assume varied subjectivities but commonly assume responsibilities for interpersonal and complementary services. Ultimately, it was argued that the introduced approach to collaboration aligns municipalities with the state’s desires. The introduced model for collaboration is a mode of governance of collaborative constellations. (Less)
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- author
- Kasperczyk, Michael LU
- supervisor
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- Max Koch LU
- organization
- course
- WPMM41 20241
- year
- 2024
- type
- H2 - Master's Degree (Two Years)
- subject
- keywords
- labor Market Policy, inter-organizational collaboration, municipality, public employment services, power, arbetsmarknadspolitik, samverkan, kommun, arbetsförmedling, makt
- language
- English
- id
- 9173278
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- 2024-09-11 13:05:52
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abstract = {{This thesis aimed to examine how the government accomplishes governance of collaborative constellations of municipalities and the Public Employment Services in Swedish labor market policy following the reformation in 2022, coinciding with new guidelines for collaboration between the parties. This objective was approached with a theoretical framework based on Foucault’s theorization of governance. It has utilized a qualitative content analysis method to analyze empirical material consisting of parliamentary records, reports from the advisory committee Delegationen för unga och nyanlända till arbete, and agreements on collaboration between municipalities and PES from the timeframe 2020-01-01 to 2023-12-31. Collaboration was legitimized by a conception of collaboration between Public Employment Services and municipalities to ensure the provision of adequate and equivalent services throughout the country following the labor market policy reform. It was argued that the introduced collaboration model was purposefully assembled to adapt collaboration to changed conditions following the policy reform and align the scales of government by introducing uniformity and consensus. Standardized agreements were found to be devised to subvert the subjectivities of the organizations through delimitation of responsibility and uniformity. Public Employment Services commonly assume a subjectivity corresponding to their statutory obligations, whereas municipalities assume varied subjectivities but commonly assume responsibilities for interpersonal and complementary services. Ultimately, it was argued that the introduced approach to collaboration aligns municipalities with the state’s desires. The introduced model for collaboration is a mode of governance of collaborative constellations.}},
author = {{Kasperczyk, Michael}},
language = {{eng}},
note = {{Student Paper}},
title = {{Collaboration, from Thought to Modeled Subjects - Government Analytics of Inter-Organizational Collaboration in Swedish Labor Market Policy}},
year = {{2024}},
}