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Elusive alliance: the German occupation of Poland in World War I, Jesse Kauffman, Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press, 2015, 287 pp., $36 (hardcover), ISBN 9780-674-28601-6
In: Nationalities papers: the journal of nationalism and ethnicity, Volume 46, Issue 3, p. 526-527
ISSN: 1465-3923
Crafting Democracy: How Novgorod Has Coped with Rapid Social Change. By Nicolai N. Petro. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2004. xiv, 255 pp. Notes. Index. Figures. Tables. $39.95, hard bound
In: Slavic review: interdisciplinary quarterly of Russian, Eurasian and East European studies, Volume 64, Issue 4, p. 916-917
ISSN: 2325-7784
Putnam's social capital theory goes East: A case study of Western Ukraine and L'viv
In: Europe Asia studies, Volume 52, Issue 2, p. 295-317
ISSN: 0966-8136
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Den fungerande demokratin? Socialt kapital och demokratisering i västra Ukraina
In: Sociologisk forskning: sociological research : journal of the Swedish Sociological Association, Volume 37, Issue 1, p. 46-85
ISSN: 2002-066X
Democratization and Secularization: Towards a Process-Oriented Model
In: Politics, religion & ideology, Volume 18, Issue 2, p. 175-197
ISSN: 2156-7697
Local candidate lists: Historical artefacts or a novel phenomenon? A research note
In: Party politics: an international journal for the study of political parties and political organizations, Volume 21, Issue 5, p. 813-820
ISSN: 1460-3683
Using Sweden as an example, we propose the hypothesis that local candidate lists rest on a different rationale compared to national party lists, more specifically a rationality that has developed as a result of an altered relationship between the local and national levels and is expressed in terms of localism. The emergence of new local lists is most likely an effect of the challenges to the welfare state posed in the past 40 years. However, although local lists are essentially a recent phenomenon, our examples suggest that their existence can also be explained in terms of historical patterns of dissent from and resistance to state intervention at the local level.
Histories Meet Histories: A Pilot Study of Migration and Civil Society in Swedish Medium-Sized Cities, Small Towns, and Villages
In: Journal of civil society, Volume 11, Issue 2, p. 187-203
ISSN: 1744-8697
The Coordinated Individual Plan – is this a solution for complex organizations to handle complex needs?
Persons with mental health problems and substance abuse often have complex needs requiring many kinds of help concurrently. In Sweden, an attempt has been made to counterbalance the effects of fragmentation by means of legislation on collaboration, requiring on the individual level the use of Coordinated Individual Plans (Sw. Samordnad Individuell Plan, SIP). The aim of the study is to explore collaboration as it is indicated in SIP and other case documentation with focus on how SIP is motivated, and what kind and degree of collaboration is indicated by the documentation. 12 individual case files have been studied in six local authorities and the results have been analyzed in relation to a regional collaboration agreement and local collaboration agreements. The results show unclear motivation for SIP and that SIP is primarily used for documentation of short-term planning. Use of SIP and participation in SIP appears also to be uneven. The authors characterize SIP as an unsystematic form of interagency meeting, with documentation indicating a relatively low to moderate level of collaboration. The authors question whether SIP is an optimal form for collaboration and suggest that more distinct models such as case management or multidisciplinary teams could be more effective.
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The Coordinated Individual Plan – is this a solution for complex organizations to handle complex needs?
In: Nordic Social Work Research, Volume 9, Issue 1, p. 55-71
ISSN: 2156-8588