Svallfor
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 104468 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Svallfor |
| SOBRENOME | Svallfor |
| ASSINATURA | SVALLFOR |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Umeå University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7664-3705 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 46 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 891 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 46 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1991 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2023 |
| ÍNDICE H | 15 |
Corruption risks in a mature democracy. Mechanisms of social advantage and danger zones for corruption. Linköping University, 2023
Networked reports
The article analyzes the commissioning and production of expert reports about Swedish health care management and governance. We show that these reports are rarely solitary stand‐alone products, but tend to form clusters in an evolving discourse centered around specific policy solutions. We also show that the most important producers of such reports tend to come from a small circle of informally recruited academics and policy experts representing …
The knowledge–management complex
This article analyzes the emergence of the Swedish “national system for knowledge‐driven management.” We argue that the system is best understood as a meta‐instrument that is underpinned by an “instrument constituency,” a coalition held together by a joint interest in a particular policy solution. Based on interviews and documentary analyses, we show the conflicting interests that are included in the constituency and how the functional effectiven…
Politik på riktigt. Handbok för sociala ingenjörer
Sociologisk Forsknings digitala arkiv
Världens jämlikaste land
Sociologisk Forsknings digitala arkiv
The Lure of Power
This article analyzes career paths and career considerations among policy professionals in Sweden. It builds on a longitudinal dataset where the professionals' careers are mapped and interviews conducted over a six‐year period. We found that: (1) skills such as the ability to navigate the political system make policy professionals employable in a variety of organizations; (2) considerations regarding different aspects of power were central to the…
Resilient privatization
In this article, we analyse the striking resilience of for-profit care and service provision in what has often been seen as the archetypical social democratic welfare state: Sweden. We focus on the strategic discursive activities of private companies and their business organizations as they try to influence perceptions, organize actors and facilitate communication to defend profit-making in the welfare sector in the face of increasing conflict an…
Resilient privatization
Who Loves the Swedish Welfare State? Attitude Trends 1980–2010
Attitudes toward social spending, collective financing, and public organization, willingness to pay taxes, suspicion about welfare abuse, and trust in the task performance of the welfare state show a large degree of stability in Sweden, and where change is registered, it tends to go in the direction of increasing support. More people state their willingness to pay higher taxes for welfare policy purposes; more people want collective financing of …
Out of the Golden Cage
This article focuses on “policy professionals”—people employed to affect politics and policy making rather than elected to office, and their career motivations and considerations. What do they see as career opportunities and limitations? What resources do policy professionals offer on the job market? How are status and hierarchy on their particular labor market perceived? Special attention is paid to the possible transitions from current job into…
Politics as organised combat – New players and new rules of the game in Sweden
In this paper, Sweden is used as an example of how organised politics has changed quite dramatically in the last couple of decades. The paper argues that there are a number of points that has recently changed Swedish organised politics in rather fundamental ways. These changes entail a new actor constellation in Swedish politics and policy-making, decreased visibility of political processes and the emergence of a strong feedback loop between ineq…
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Sociologförbundet har ordet
Sociologförbundet har ordet
Sociologförbundet har ordet
Class, Values, and Attitudes Towards Redistribution
Using data from the European Social Survey, we analyse the link between basic human values and attitudes towards redistribution, and how that link differs among classes and across countries. We assess whether and why the class-specific impact of self-transcendence and self-enhancement values on attitudes towards redistribution differs across a selection of European countries. The results show that the links between values and attitudes are genera…
Government quality, egalitarianism, and attitudes to taxes and social spending
The paper analyses how perceptions of government quality – in terms of impartiality and efficiency – impact on attitudes to taxes and social spending. It builds on data from the European Social Survey 2008 from 29 European countries. The paper shows a large degree of congruence between expert-based judgments and the general public's perceptions of the quality of government. It also shows that the quality of government has a clear, independent eff…
Welfare States and Welfare Attitudes
Sociologförbundet har ordet
A Bedrock of Support? Trends in Welfare State Attitudes in Sweden, 1981–2010
This article reports findings about Swedes' attitudes towards the welfare state from 1981 to 2010, building on data from the Swedish Welfare State Surveys. Attitudes towards social spending, willingness to pay taxes, attitudes towards collective financing and public organization, suspicion about welfare abuse, and trust in the task performance of the welfare state are tracked. Overall, there is a large degree of stability in attitudes, and where …
Public Attitudes
This article examines comparative research in the field as far as it relates to attitudes towards welfare policies and the (re)distribution of resources and life chances. First, it presents the first generation of comparative welfare attitude research, in which national surveys on the topic were established and could be compared. It then moves on to survey the turn towards explicitly comparative studies, and in particular extensive research on th…
Why does class matter? Policy attitudes, mechanisms, and the case of the Nordic countries
Analyzing Inequality
CONTENTS List of Tables and Figures xx List of Contributors xx Preface xxx Chapter One Introduction 1 Stefan Svallfors Chapter two Life Courses and Life Chances in a Comparative Perspective 00 Karl Ulrich Mayer Chapter three Progress in Sociology: The Case of Social Mobility Research 61 John H Goldthorpe Chapter four Social Indicators, Policy, and Measuring Progress 97 A B Atkinson Chapter five Family Structure, Gender Roles and Social Inequality…
Worlds of Welfare and Attitudes to Redistribution
In this paper attitudes to redistribution in eight Western nations are analysed, using data from the International Social Survey Program (ISSP). The paper begins with a discussion of various regime types as presented by Esping-Andersen and Castles and Mitchell, among others. Countries are then chosen to represent four twin pairs of countries, approximating four worlds of welfare capitalism : the social democratic (Sweden/Norway), the conservative…
Government quality, egalitarianism, and attitudes to taxes and social spending
The paper analyses how perceptions of government quality – in terms of impartiality and efficiency – impact on attitudes to taxes and social spending. It builds on data from the European Social Survey 2008 from 29 European countries. The paper shows a large degree of congruence between expert-based judgments and the general public's perceptions of the quality of government. It also shows that the quality of government has a clear, independent eff…
Policy feedback, generational replacement, and attitudes to state intervention
This paper tests contested arguments within the institutionalist literature about the relation between institutional and attitudinal changes, using the reunified Germany as a case. Eastern Germany constitutes a case approaching a ‘natural experiment’ for the social sciences, being twice the receiver of externally imposed institutions. It, therefore, provides a unique opportunity to closely analyse institutional effects on attitudes, as in this pa…
Class, Attitudes and the Welfare State
One of the most important arenas for contemporary class politics is the welfare state. In this article, attitudes towards welfare policies among different classes in Sweden are compared with other Western countries and over time. In the first part of the article, attitudes towards state intervention among different classes are compared across four Western countries: Sweden, Germany, Britain and the USA. The data come from the 1996 survey on “The …
Welfare Regimes and Welfare Opinions
A Bedrock of Support? Trends in Welfare State Attitudes in Sweden, 1981–2010
This article reports findings about Swedes' attitudes towards the welfare state from 1981 to 2010, building on data from the Swedish Welfare State Surveys. Attitudes towards social spending, willingness to pay taxes, attitudes towards collective financing and public organization, suspicion about welfare abuse, and trust in the task performance of the welfare state are tracked. Overall, there is a large degree of stability in attitudes, and where …
The Politics of Welfare Policy in Sweden
The article analyzes attitudes to Swedish welfare policies, using data from a survey conducted in 1986. In the first section, a number of indices tapping various aspects of attitudes to welfare policy are constructed. In the second section these indices are used to give an empirical assessment of competing theories about the impact of different structural determinants on attitudes. It is concluded (a) that there is general support for Swedish wel…
The End of Class Politics? Structural Cleavages and Attitudes to Swedish Welfare Policies
Sweden, by many regarded as the archetypal welfare state, has recently experienced severe problems of weak economic performance, sharply rising unemployment and cutbacks in social pohcies. In this paper, data from national surveys over the last decade are analysed in order to assess whether recent changes in the political arena point to more long-term problems of legitimacy for Swedish welfare policies. The purposes are (a) to track the overall a…
Why does class matter? Policy attitudes, mechanisms, and the case of the Nordic countries
Work Orientations in Scandinavia
In this study we analyse employment commitment and organizational commitment in Denmark, Norway and Sweden, using data from the International Social Survey Programme (1997). We begin with an institutional comparison of the three countries, where it is concluded that a strong institutionalized commitment to work is of longest standing in Sweden and most recent in Denmark. It is concluded that, contrary to expectations, both employment and organiza…
Class, Values, and Attitudes Towards Redistribution
Using data from the European Social Survey, we analyse the link between basic human values and attitudes towards redistribution, and how that link differs among classes and across countries. We assess whether and why the class-specific impact of self-transcendence and self-enhancement values on attitudes towards redistribution differs across a selection of European countries. The results show that the links between values and attitudes are genera…
The generational contract in Sweden
This article analyses age differences in attitudes towards public policies to support older people and to support families with children in Sweden. It is shown that support for older people becomes increasingly popular over time, so that it is more popular in all age groups than support for families with children, and that age and class differences in attitudes tend to rise and recede in tandem regarding support for older people, while class diff…
Politics as organised combat – New players and new rules of the game in Sweden
In this paper, Sweden is used as an example of how organised politics has changed quite dramatically in the last couple of decades. The paper argues that there are a number of points that has recently changed Swedish organised politics in rather fundamental ways. These changes entail a new actor constellation in Swedish politics and policy-making, decreased visibility of political processes and the emergence of a strong feedback loop between ineq…
Political trust and attitudes towards redistribution
Attitudes towards redistribution, and their links to political trust, are compared in Sweden and Norway using data from the International Social Survey Program (ISSP). Attitudes towards redistribution are quite similar in both countries at an aggregate level, but class differences and differences between left and right party sympathizers are larger in Sweden than in Norway. Levels of political trust and personal political efficacy are clearly hig…
Dimensions of Inequality
Attitudes to inequality are compared in Sweden and Britain, using evidence from the International Social Survey Program. Using a more multidimensional model and more representative samples than before, the article starts out from various arguments about greater egalitarianism in Sweden compared to Britain and assesses the arguments in the light of empirical evidence. It is concluded (a) that there are no signs of any strong ‘leftism’ in the Swedi…
The Lure of Power
This article analyzes career paths and career considerations among policy professionals in Sweden. It builds on a longitudinal dataset where the professionals' careers are mapped and interviews conducted over a six‐year period. We found that: (1) skills such as the ability to navigate the political system make policy professionals employable in a variety of organizations; (2) considerations regarding different aspects of power were central to the…
Resilient privatization
In this article, we analyse the striking resilience of for-profit care and service provision in what has often been seen as the archetypical social democratic welfare state: Sweden. We focus on the strategic discursive activities of private companies and their business organizations as they try to influence perceptions, organize actors and facilitate communication to defend profit-making in the welfare sector in the face of increasing conflict an…
Out of the Golden Cage
This article focuses on “policy professionals”—people employed to affect politics and policy making rather than elected to office, and their career motivations and considerations. What do they see as career opportunities and limitations? What resources do policy professionals offer on the job market? How are status and hierarchy on their particular labor market perceived? Special attention is paid to the possible transitions from current job into…
Class and Conformism
This paper compares class patterns of ‘conformism’ in four Western countries, taking as its point of departure arguments, which suggest that conformism/authoritarianism is more prevalent in the working class than other classes. Data from the International Social Survey Program (ISSP) are used in order to compare class attitudes towards sexual behaviour and civil rights/liberties, in Britain, Germany, Sweden and the United States. This study finds…
National differences in national identities? An introduction to the International Social Survey Programme
The knowledge–management complex
This article analyzes the emergence of the Swedish “national system for knowledge‐driven management.” We argue that the system is best understood as a meta‐instrument that is underpinned by an “instrument constituency,” a coalition held together by a joint interest in a particular policy solution. Based on interviews and documentary analyses, we show the conflicting interests that are included in the constituency and how the functional effectiven…
The Politics of Welfare Policy in Sweden
The article analyzes attitudes to Swedish welfare policies, using data from a survey conducted in 1986. In the first section, a number of indices tapping various aspects of attitudes to welfare policy are constructed. In the second section these indices are used to give an empirical assessment of competing theories about the impact of different structural determinants on attitudes. It is concluded (a) that there is general support for Swedish wel…
Dimensions of Inequality
Attitudes to inequality are compared in Sweden and Britain, using evidence from the International Social Survey Program. Using a more multidimensional model and more representative samples than before, the article starts out from various arguments about greater egalitarianism in Sweden compared to Britain and assesses the arguments in the light of empirical evidence. It is concluded (a) that there are no signs of any strong ‘leftism’ in the Swedi…
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The End of Class Politics? Structural Cleavages and Attitudes to Swedish Welfare Policies
Sweden, by many regarded as the archetypal welfare state, has recently experienced severe problems of weak economic performance, sharply rising unemployment and cutbacks in social pohcies. In this paper, data from national surveys over the last decade are analysed in order to assess whether recent changes in the political arena point to more long-term problems of legitimacy for Swedish welfare policies. The purposes are (a) to track the overall a…
National differences in national identities? An introduction to the International Social Survey Programme
Worlds of Welfare and Attitudes to Redistribution
In this paper attitudes to redistribution in eight Western nations are analysed, using data from the International Social Survey Program (ISSP). The paper begins with a discussion of various regime types as presented by Esping-Andersen and Castles and Mitchell, among others. Countries are then chosen to represent four twin pairs of countries, approximating four worlds of welfare capitalism : the social democratic (Sweden/Norway), the conservative…
The Class Politics of Swedish Welfare Policies
The second Scandinavian chapter picks up on the emphasis on the welfare state. The main interest here is in class divisions in attitudes to welfare redistribution. It finds that the changes that appear to have occurred in the region do not appear to have led to other cleavages becoming more important than that of class. Again, politics is emphasized as the key to understanding the social bases of partisanship rather than vice versa. In contempora…
Political trust and attitudes towards redistribution
Attitudes towards redistribution, and their links to political trust, are compared in Sweden and Norway using data from the International Social Survey Program (ISSP). Attitudes towards redistribution are quite similar in both countries at an aggregate level, but class differences and differences between left and right party sympathizers are larger in Sweden than in Norway. Levels of political trust and personal political efficacy are clearly hig…
Välfärdsregimer och välfärdsopinioner
Welfare regimes and welfare opinions - a comparison of eight western countriesThe article compares attitudes towards welfare state intervention in eight Western nations, using data from the 1996 module of the International Social Survey Program. Countries are chosen to represent four ”twin pairs”, approximating four ”welfare regimes”: the social democratic (Norway/Sweden), the conservative (Germany/France), the radical (Australia/ New Zealand), a…
En sociologtidskrift på svenska - varför då
Why a Swedish journal of sociology?The article discusses the problems of the journal “Sociologisk forskning”, such as low scientific impact, and proposes a change of publishing policy in order to change the journal into a policy-oriented forum
Work Orientations in Scandinavia
In this study we analyse employment commitment and organizational commitment in Denmark, Norway and Sweden, using data from the International Social Survey Programme (1997). We begin with an institutional comparison of the three countries, where it is concluded that a strong institutionalized commitment to work is of longest standing in Sweden and most recent in Denmark. It is concluded that, contrary to expectations, both employment and organiza…
Political Trust and Support for the Welfare State
The effects of institutions extend beyond being the "rules of the game," played by actors with preconceived interests. Institutions also affect attitudes and perceptions, through their way of functioning and by their embodiment of social norms. Institutions affect our perceptions about what exists, what may be achieved, and what is good and just. In relation to the themes of this volume, one could argue that political institutions affect not only…
Welfare Regimes and Welfare Opinions
Welfare Regimes and Welfare Opinions
Class, Attitudes and the Welfare State
One of the most important arenas for contemporary class politics is the welfare state. In this article, attitudes towards welfare policies among different classes in Sweden are compared with other Western countries and over time. In the first part of the article, attitudes towards state intervention among different classes are compared across four Western countries: Sweden, Germany, Britain and the USA. The data come from the 1996 survey on “The …
Class and Conformism
This paper compares class patterns of ‘conformism’ in four Western countries, taking as its point of departure arguments, which suggest that conformism/authoritarianism is more prevalent in the working class than other classes. Data from the International Social Survey Program (ISSP) are used in order to compare class attitudes towards sexual behaviour and civil rights/liberties, in Britain, Germany, Sweden and the United States. This study finds…
The Moral Economy of Class
This book surveys whether and how social classes differ in their views on important social issues, such as work and family, the economy and politics, rights and morals, and the distribution of justice. What accounts for such differences in opinion? Are class differences comparable and consistent across different nations? Do class differences change over time? In The Moral Economy of Class, Stefan Svallfors builds on data from large-scale comparat…
Class and Attitudes to Market Inequality
This chapter compares attitudes to market inequality in different classes in four Western countries: Sweden, Britain, Germany, and the United States. Drawing on Robert Lane's argument that market distributions often cause little dissatisfaction, it examines whether class differences in attitudes to various aspects of market inequality are larger in the coordinated market economies of Sweden and Germany, or in the liberal market economies of Brita…
Radical Welfare State Retrenchment
Radical Welfare State Retrenchment: A Comparative Analysis." West European Politics, 31(5), pp. 1098–1099
The generational contract in Sweden
This article analyses age differences in attitudes towards public policies to support older people and to support families with children in Sweden. It is shown that support for older people becomes increasingly popular over time, so that it is more popular in all age groups than support for families with children, and that age and class differences in attitudes tend to rise and recede in tandem regarding support for older people, while class diff…
Public Attitudes
This article examines comparative research in the field as far as it relates to attitudes towards welfare policies and the (re)distribution of resources and life chances. First, it presents the first generation of comparative welfare attitude research, in which national surveys on the topic were established and could be compared. It then moves on to survey the turn towards explicitly comparative studies, and in particular extensive research on th…
Why does class matter? Policy attitudes, mechanisms, and the case of the Nordic countries
Policy feedback, generational replacement, and attitudes to state intervention
This paper tests contested arguments within the institutionalist literature about the relation between institutional and attitudinal changes, using the reunified Germany as a case. Eastern Germany constitutes a case approaching a ‘natural experiment’ for the social sciences, being twice the receiver of externally imposed institutions. It, therefore, provides a unique opportunity to closely analyse institutional effects on attitudes, as in this pa…
A Bedrock of Support? Trends in Welfare State Attitudes in Sweden, 1981–2010
This article reports findings about Swedes' attitudes towards the welfare state from 1981 to 2010, building on data from the Swedish Welfare State Surveys. Attitudes towards social spending, willingness to pay taxes, attitudes towards collective financing and public organization, suspicion about welfare abuse, and trust in the task performance of the welfare state are tracked. Overall, there is a large degree of stability in attitudes, and where …
Welfare States and Welfare Attitudes
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