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From free health care to pricing in subsaharian Africa : rise and fall of the project "health for all"

1997

The idea o f the "health for all", that consists in insure to each the free access to health care and the equality on treating, has been found enough rapidly taken in defect by the catastrophic economic situation of countries of Africa to the South o f the Sahara. Faced with the impossibility to promote a free health policy for all, local governments and international organisations, such the WHO and the UNICEF, have proposed to make pay users for cares that they receive and to decentralize management of public health system so as to create the favorable environment to a market of health. This reform of health system in Subsaharan Africa, called the Bamako Initiative, is going to tempt to so…

Lauku diskurss presē latviešu valodā Latvijā (1989-2012)

2014

Promocijas darbā analizēts preses veidotais lauku diskurss un tā izmaiņas sociālekonomisko un citu apstākļu ietekmē no 1989. līdz 2012. gadam. Pētījumā aplūkotas laukiem, to iedzīvotājiem un zemniecībai piedēvētās nozīmes, rezultātus skatot nacionālās identitātes un sociālās atmiņas kontekstā. Teorētiskajā daļā izskaidrota lauku un nācijas saikne, nacionālās identitātes, sociālās atmiņas jēdzieni un komunikācijas loma nācijas re-iztēlošanas procesā. Konteksta uztverei darbu papildina latviešu nacionālās identitātes izpratnes, lauku un lauksaimniecības attīstības, mediju vides un tēmas izpētes līmeņa apraksts. Empīriskie dati iegūti ar diskursa vēsturisko analīzi un kvantitatīvo kontentanalī…

Annales des travaux des auditeurs de l'IHEDN 2009 : "Y a-t-il un retour du "soft power" dans les relations internationales ?

2009

CD rom; International audience

Life cycle and internationalization of Finnish software product companies

2005

Role of trust in cross-cultural adaptation : the perspective of international degree students at a Finnish university

2008

The adjustment of Finnish expatriates in Britain with special reference to communicative comperence : a case study

2002

Stakeholder salience for small businesses : a social proximity perspective

2017

This paper advances stakeholder salience theory from the viewpoint of small businesses. It is argued that the stakeholder salience process for small businesses is influenced by their local embeddedness, captured by the idea of social proximity, and characterised by multiple relationships that the owner-manager and stakeholders share beyond the business context. It is further stated that the ethics of care is a valuable ethical lens through which to understand social proximity in small businesses. The contribution of the study conceptualises how the perceived social proximity between local stakeholders and small business owner-managers influences managerial considerations of the legitimacy, …

‘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…

"Un revirement de jurisprudence contestable : la constitution du tribunal arbitral interdit la saisine du juge des référés aux fins de mesures provis…

2006

International audience