Traits of a representative welfare model - The Swedish example

Järkestig Berggren Ulrika, Staffan Blomberg, Jan Petersson

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Abstract

The care manager reform and the case manager reform are new reforms in the social care services in Sweden, which are evolving during the 2000s. Together they shape the social care services introducing a new way of decision-making where representatives for the organisation (care manager) and the users (case manager) negotiate. The reforms have been analysed in two studies with results presented in this article. Using the concepts of role, orientation, function and assignments, it is argued that the managers come to the negotiations on rights from different positions that are both conflicting and complementary. They further mediate the development towards a welfare mix, where the market, social networks and users interact to obtain the public welfare provision. Through this negotiated rights model, it is argued that traits of a representative welfare state emerge, with the distinction of moving the focus to the administrative practices and their differences away from political ideologies.
Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)402-411
JournalInternational Journal of Social Welfare
Volume19
Issue number4
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2010

Bibliographical note

The information about affiliations in this record was updated in December 2015.
The record was previously connected to the following departments: The Vårdal Institute (016540000), School of Social Work (012016000)

Subject classification (UKÄ)

  • Nursing

Free keywords

  • negotiated rights model
  • representative welfare
  • case management
  • care
  • management
  • social work division

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