Elin Wihlborg
Biographic Data
| ID | 4154860 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Elin Wihlborg |
| GIVEN NAMES | Elin |
| FAMILY NAME | Wihlborg |
| SIGNATURE | WIHLBORG E |
| AFFILIATIONS | Linköping University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9905-0942 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 42 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 14 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2006 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Adaptive governance amidst the war
Making local democracy work during the pandemic – analyses of online and onsite city council meetings in Sweden
Democratic decision-making upholds local government legitimacy, institutionalising participation, debate, and decisions. The COVID-19 pandemic necessitated online meeting formats to maintain these democratic processes. This shift allowed for a natural experiment to study the effects of online local meetings on councillors’ floor time. This paper develops a method to analyse the transition from onsite to online meetings and its effect on floor tim…
Autonomy and paternalism – framing Swedish Covid-19 restriction policy
Sweden became an outlier among the Nordic countries in handling the COVID-19 pandemic. While the Nordic countries have historically shared a social democratic welfare state regime, with strong cooperation and harmonization of social policies, their responses to the pandemic showcased fundamental differences to that of Sweden. In particular, Sweden’s prioritization of individual civil liberties over social rights diverged from the more coercive ap…
Context matters—different entrepreneurial approaches among street‐level bureaucrats enhancing digital inclusion
Digital technology is frequently used in the delivery of public services. Since not everyone has the skills or digital access required to use such digital services, street‐level bureaucrats must find new ways to support citizens to be able to enhance digital inclusion. In most public settings, these new practices of digital support need to be developed in parallel with the street‐level bureaucrats' ordinary assignments. This article analyses the …
Regional strategies for sustainable healthcare - the winding path of UN SDGs into Swedish regional healthcare systems
Sustainable development has been defined by 17 UN goals, with the third goal (SDG3) focusing on a universal healthcare system that ensures healthy lives and wellbeing. To implement these ambitions, the goal needs to fit a regional setting before it can achieve and support healthy lives and wellbeing amongst the population. This article analyses how four Swedish regions incorporate SDG target 3.4 on non-communicable diseases and mental health into…
Bringing all clients into the system – Professional digital discretion to enhance inclusion when services are automated
The increasing use of automated systems for decision-making and decision support in public administration is forming new practices and challenging public values since public services must be impartially accessible and designed for everyone. New robotistic process automation (RPA) systems are generally designed based on back-office structures. This requires clients to submit relevant data correctly in order for these services to function. However,…
Village schools as a hub in the community - A time-geographical analysis of the closing of two rural schools in southern Sweden
In rural areas, where schools are more distant, families’ daily time-space arrangements are organised around the schools. When local schools are closed, the management of these daily arrangements is stretched even further as families face longer distances to services and new challenges in organising their daily lives. This article focuses on how the closure of rural schools impacts on the everyday lives of families and how a local school serves a…
Mediators in action
Including and Representing End-User’s Needs When Building Houses of Culture
Expressing end-user needs and including them into the public sector building process is crucial to the public sector client when making an informed and legitimate decision and implementation of a construction project. The aim of this article is to analyze how end-user needs can be, and in a specific case are, articulated and taken up differently by stakeholders through the early phases of the public building process. A time-geographical approach …
Governing Technical Information Systems in Local Crisis Management
There are increased demands to prepare for and coordinate of crisis management in public administrative bodies. Governmental organizations and authorities have responsibility for providing systems and structures of coordination before, during, and after crises. Among these are the technical information systems which create the structuring arena for coordination and integration that is analyzed here. There are several technical information systems…
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In contemporary society, the environment is often regarded as a global issue that requires international attention However, the global problem surrounding the environment can be regarded as a sympt
Who is Governing What? Governing Local Technical Systems–an Issue of Accountability
The article discusses accountability in governance of local energy and IT systems. The aim is to focus on accountability of local policy making regarding technical systems by comparing consequences when new forms of governance are developed. Governance steering demands and ensures a clear division of responsibility regarding what a network is responsible for, but not regarding who is accountable for the decision making and implementation. On the …
Communicative planning – friend or foe? Obstacles and opportunities for implementing sustainable development locally
There is a growing understanding of the potential of spatial planning to constitute a co‐ordinating arena for sustainable development, and planning processes are expected to merge all dimensions of sustainability. Since the concrete manifestation of spatial planning takes place at a micro level, it all boils down to the need for bringing together stakeholders at municipal level in a well functioning planning processes. Alongside this viewpoint, t…
Governed by technology? Urban management of broadband and 3G systems in Sweden
Bringing all clients into the system – Professional digital discretion to enhance inclusion when services are automated
The increasing use of automated systems for decision-making and decision support in public administration is forming new practices and challenging public values since public services must be impartially accessible and designed for everyone. New robotistic process automation (RPA) systems are generally designed based on back-office structures. This requires clients to submit relevant data correctly in order for these services to function. However,…
Village schools as a hub in the community - A time-geographical analysis of the closing of two rural schools in southern Sweden
In rural areas, where schools are more distant, families’ daily time-space arrangements are organised around the schools. When local schools are closed, the management of these daily arrangements is stretched even further as families face longer distances to services and new challenges in organising their daily lives. This article focuses on how the closure of rural schools impacts on the everyday lives of families and how a local school serves a…
Autonomy and paternalism – framing Swedish Covid-19 restriction policy
Sweden became an outlier among the Nordic countries in handling the COVID-19 pandemic. While the Nordic countries have historically shared a social democratic welfare state regime, with strong cooperation and harmonization of social policies, their responses to the pandemic showcased fundamental differences to that of Sweden. In particular, Sweden’s prioritization of individual civil liberties over social rights diverged from the more coercive ap…
Communicative planning – friend or foe? Obstacles and opportunities for implementing sustainable development locally
There is a growing understanding of the potential of spatial planning to constitute a co‐ordinating arena for sustainable development, and planning processes are expected to merge all dimensions of sustainability. Since the concrete manifestation of spatial planning takes place at a micro level, it all boils down to the need for bringing together stakeholders at municipal level in a well functioning planning processes. Alongside this viewpoint, t…
Context matters—different entrepreneurial approaches among street‐level bureaucrats enhancing digital inclusion
Digital technology is frequently used in the delivery of public services. Since not everyone has the skills or digital access required to use such digital services, street‐level bureaucrats must find new ways to support citizens to be able to enhance digital inclusion. In most public settings, these new practices of digital support need to be developed in parallel with the street‐level bureaucrats' ordinary assignments. This article analyses the …
Mediators in action
Who is Governing What? Governing Local Technical Systems–an Issue of Accountability
The article discusses accountability in governance of local energy and IT systems. The aim is to focus on accountability of local policy making regarding technical systems by comparing consequences when new forms of governance are developed. Governance steering demands and ensures a clear division of responsibility regarding what a network is responsible for, but not regarding who is accountable for the decision making and implementation. On the …
Adaptive governance amidst the war
Making local democracy work during the pandemic – analyses of online and onsite city council meetings in Sweden
Democratic decision-making upholds local government legitimacy, institutionalising participation, debate, and decisions. The COVID-19 pandemic necessitated online meeting formats to maintain these democratic processes. This shift allowed for a natural experiment to study the effects of online local meetings on councillors’ floor time. This paper develops a method to analyse the transition from onsite to online meetings and its effect on floor tim…
Governed by technology? Urban management of broadband and 3G systems in Sweden
Communicative planning – friend or foe? Obstacles and opportunities for implementing sustainable development locally
There is a growing understanding of the potential of spatial planning to constitute a co‐ordinating arena for sustainable development, and planning processes are expected to merge all dimensions of sustainability. Since the concrete manifestation of spatial planning takes place at a micro level, it all boils down to the need for bringing together stakeholders at municipal level in a well functioning planning processes. Alongside this viewpoint, t…
Who is Governing What? Governing Local Technical Systems–an Issue of Accountability
The article discusses accountability in governance of local energy and IT systems. The aim is to focus on accountability of local policy making regarding technical systems by comparing consequences when new forms of governance are developed. Governance steering demands and ensures a clear division of responsibility regarding what a network is responsible for, but not regarding who is accountable for the decision making and implementation. On the …
Home
In contemporary society, the environment is often regarded as a global issue that requires international attention However, the global problem surrounding the environment can be regarded as a sympt
Governing Technical Information Systems in Local Crisis Management
There are increased demands to prepare for and coordinate of crisis management in public administrative bodies. Governmental organizations and authorities have responsibility for providing systems and structures of coordination before, during, and after crises. Among these are the technical information systems which create the structuring arena for coordination and integration that is analyzed here. There are several technical information systems…
Including and Representing End-User’s Needs When Building Houses of Culture
Expressing end-user needs and including them into the public sector building process is crucial to the public sector client when making an informed and legitimate decision and implementation of a construction project. The aim of this article is to analyze how end-user needs can be, and in a specific case are, articulated and taken up differently by stakeholders through the early phases of the public building process. A time-geographical approach …
Mediators in action
Village schools as a hub in the community - A time-geographical analysis of the closing of two rural schools in southern Sweden
In rural areas, where schools are more distant, families’ daily time-space arrangements are organised around the schools. When local schools are closed, the management of these daily arrangements is stretched even further as families face longer distances to services and new challenges in organising their daily lives. This article focuses on how the closure of rural schools impacts on the everyday lives of families and how a local school serves a…
Bringing all clients into the system – Professional digital discretion to enhance inclusion when services are automated
The increasing use of automated systems for decision-making and decision support in public administration is forming new practices and challenging public values since public services must be impartially accessible and designed for everyone. New robotistic process automation (RPA) systems are generally designed based on back-office structures. This requires clients to submit relevant data correctly in order for these services to function. However,…
Regional strategies for sustainable healthcare - the winding path of UN SDGs into Swedish regional healthcare systems
Sustainable development has been defined by 17 UN goals, with the third goal (SDG3) focusing on a universal healthcare system that ensures healthy lives and wellbeing. To implement these ambitions, the goal needs to fit a regional setting before it can achieve and support healthy lives and wellbeing amongst the population. This article analyses how four Swedish regions incorporate SDG target 3.4 on non-communicable diseases and mental health into…
Context matters—different entrepreneurial approaches among street‐level bureaucrats enhancing digital inclusion
Digital technology is frequently used in the delivery of public services. Since not everyone has the skills or digital access required to use such digital services, street‐level bureaucrats must find new ways to support citizens to be able to enhance digital inclusion. In most public settings, these new practices of digital support need to be developed in parallel with the street‐level bureaucrats' ordinary assignments. This article analyses the …
Autonomy and paternalism – framing Swedish Covid-19 restriction policy
Sweden became an outlier among the Nordic countries in handling the COVID-19 pandemic. While the Nordic countries have historically shared a social democratic welfare state regime, with strong cooperation and harmonization of social policies, their responses to the pandemic showcased fundamental differences to that of Sweden. In particular, Sweden’s prioritization of individual civil liberties over social rights diverged from the more coercive ap…
Adaptive governance amidst the war
Making local democracy work during the pandemic – analyses of online and onsite city council meetings in Sweden
Democratic decision-making upholds local government legitimacy, institutionalising participation, debate, and decisions. The COVID-19 pandemic necessitated online meeting formats to maintain these democratic processes. This shift allowed for a natural experiment to study the effects of online local meetings on councillors’ floor time. This paper develops a method to analyse the transition from onsite to online meetings and its effect on floor tim…
Political science (13 works) · Business (10 works) · Computer Science (7 works) · Sociology (7 works) · Process management (6 works) · Public relations (6 works) · E-Government and Public Services (5 works) · Engineering (4 works) · Geography (4 works) · Knowledge management (4 works)