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- Title
The Impact of Institutional Pluralism on Governmental Reforms in the Public Sector: Choice, Monitoring and Licenses in Swedish Schools.
- Authors
Blomgren, Maria; Waks, Caroline
- Abstract
The aim of this article is to investigate the influence of institutional pluralism on the expansion of reforms in the public sector. The paper seeks to contribute to the Scandinavian institutionalism perspective where previous analyses of reforms have often used a case-study methodology and focussed on one, or a few, reforms attributable to the same institution. The focus of this article is to describe and analyse the reform history in order to capture the dynamics between reforms attributable to different institutions. An analysis of the reforms of the Swedish school system between 1990 and 2013 is conducted revealing that more than 70 reforms were implemented during the period. The reforms were based on different institutions such as 'the market', 'the state/bureaucracy' and 'the profession'.This plurality of reforms casts new light on the expansion of reforms as it suggests that the dynamics are not only characterised by completions as has previously been shown, but also by counterbalances in relation to the institutions involved.
- Subjects
SWEDEN; PUBLIC sector; PLURALISM; SCHOOLS; EDUCATIONAL change; BUREAUCRACY; HISTORY
- Publication
Scandinavian Journal of Public Administration, 2017, Vol 21, Issue 3, p3
- ISSN
2001-7405
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.58235/sjpa.v21i4.11485