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The Relationship between Public Value and Change : Case Study on Public Value Creation in Relation to the Regional Government, Health and Social Serv…
2019
Master's thesis Innovative governance and public management ME523 - University of Agder 2019 A break first from Traditional Public Administration (TPA) and later New Public Management (NPM) has gradually offered new angles to the governance. For instance, Moorecreated an analogue to the private value creation,and as a result, the ideology of public value creation has emerged worldwide.Since then, scholars have developed a conceptual understanding of public value. Compared to the NPM public value management embraces post-competitive achievements and broader governmental goals. Yet, the empirical research on public value management, especially in the Finnish context, is rather unknown.This st…
Financialization of Eldercare in a Nordic Welfare State
2022
Abstract The increasing presence of for-profit service providers in publicly-funded eldercare has transformed care in Nordic welfare states which have a strong tradition of public care provision. Macro-level research on care policies has mainly focused on public institutions, national policies, and marketization. The financialization of eldercare has not received much scholarly attention, and existing studies mostly focus on the UK. The financialization of eldercare refers to the ways in which care is both a site of profit extraction and financial engineering. The Nordic system is relatively universal, and, with rapidly ageing demographics, there is a secured demand for eldercare services. …
Turning experience into expertise : technologies of the self in Finnish participatory social policy
2017
This article investigates the micro-level practices of subject-construction in Finnish participatory social policy. Through a governmental ethnography on projects that invite former beneficiaries to become ‘experts-by-experience’ in social welfare organizations, I discern the possibilities for freedom in the participants’ self-construction. By making use of Michel Foucault’s conceptual tools of care of the self and confession, I illustrate how, contrary to the projects’ emancipatory promise of providing the service users the freedom to reconstruct themselves, the projects entail practices that curb the participants’ way of ‘knowing themselves’. They require the service users to reframe thei…
Constructing social Europe through European cultural heritage
2021
The political and economic crises of the recent decades as well as the new changes brought on by globalization and digitalization have contributed to exacerbate social inequalities and injustice and revealed different social realities in Europe. The EU increasingly deals with social issues in its cultural and heritage policy. In this article, we explore the construction of this social dimension and advance the concept of 'social Europe' by exploring its cultural aspect based on our analysis of a recent EU heritage action, the European Heritage Label. In this action, the narrations of the European past and the attempts to foster common cultural heritage in Europe function as building blocks …
‘The will to not be empowered (according to your rules)’: Resistance in Finnish participatory social policy
2018
Participation has increasingly become a means and an end for successful and ‘empowering’ social policy. Building on previous governmentality critiques of participatory initiatives, this article investigates practices of resistance in the context of Finnish participatory social policy. I adopt a Foucauldian counter-conducts approach as my lens to study critical speech as a form of resistance in initiatives that invite marginalised people as ‘experts-by-experience’ in social welfare organisations. I illustrate how practices of governing and resistance are intertwined and mutually dependent in a much subtler and more practical manner than allows the often-used analytical dichotomy between domi…
The Human Right to Social Security and Its Impact on Socio-Political Action in Germany and Finland
2017
Social human rights have rarely been given attention in social work research or comparative studies on welfare states. The paper aims at filling the gap by analysing the conception of human beings inherent in human rights and in unemployment policy documents in Germany and Finland. Its focus lies on the right to social security, a central norm of the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights. The main question is what impact does the right to social security have on socio-political action in Germany and Finland. The results of the analysis, which was based on the objective hermeneutics, revealed a structural similarity between the conceptions of human beings in both cou…
Participation in Social Media: Studying Explicit and Implicit Forms of Participation in Communicative Social Networks
2016
The diverse forms of participation in social media raise many methodological and ethical issues that should be acknowledged in research. In this paper, participation in social media is studied by utilising the framework of explicit and implicit participation. The focus is on the communicative and communal aspects of social media. The aim of the paper is to promote the reconsideration of what constitutes participation when online users create connections rather than content. The underlying argument is that research on social media and the development of methods should concentrate more on implicit forms of participation.
Speciālo izmeklēšanas darbību aktuālie problēmjautājumi
2016
Maģistra darbs sniedz padziļinātu ieskatu speciālo izmeklēšanas darbību kā kriminālprocesuāla institūta problēmjautājumos, kuru pamatā lielākoties ir tieši teorijā un praksē nostiprinājušos atziņu dažādība. Darbs sastāv no trim galvenajām nodaļām, kurās autore apzina un analizē speciālo izmeklēšanas darbību teorētiskos un praktiskos aspektus un no to atšķirīgās normatīvā regulējuma interpretācijas izrietošos tādus aktuālos problēmjautājumus kā saistība ar operatīvās darbības pasākumiem, ar šīm darbībām saistīto procesuālo dokumentu un darbību veicēju liecību nozīme pierādīšanā, iegūtās informācijas aizsardzība u.c. Darba rezultātā autore konstatē pretrunas tiesību normu piemērošanā un ieros…
Potencjał finansowy sportowych organizacji pożytku publicznego
2020
Struktura źródeł pochodzenia przychodów może oddziaływać na sposób funkcjonowania i zakres działań podejmowanych przez organizacje pozarządowe. Instytucjonalny system organizacji sportu, jak również zasady finansowania organizacji pozarządowych objawiają się tym, że jednym z głównych źródeł ich przychodów są środki publiczne. Dlatego założono, że udział środków publicznych w przychodach ogółem różnicuje społeczne organizacje sportowe. Uznano to za czynnik, który w świetle teorii zależności od zasobów oraz zjawiska izomorfizmu instytucjonalnego może negatywnie kształtować warunki funkcjonowania organizacji pozarządowych. Celem badań było zidentyfikowanie struktury przychodów niekomercyjnych …
Zarząd "kadłubowy" w spółce z ograniczoną odpowiedzialnością
2021
Niniejszy artykuł przedstawia zagadnienie zarządu „kadłubowego” w spółce z ograniczoną odpowiedzialnością. Omawiana instytucja prawa handlowego nie została unormowana przez Kodeks spółek handlowych, lecz została wypracowana przez doktrynę. Autor w niniejszym artykule przedstawia typowe aspekty funkcjonowania zarządu – reprezentacja spółki oraz prowadzenie spraw spółki przez zarząd „kadłubowy”. Analizując różne stanowiska wypracowane zarówno przez doktrynę, jak i orzecznictwo sądowe, Autor stara się pokazać, że ważniejszą kwestią od istnienia samego organu dla prawidłowego funkcjonowania spółki niezbędna jest odpowiednia liczebność organu w celu dokonania ważnych czynności prawnych w sferze …