Erik Lundberg – författare

I en representativ demokrati spelar de politiska partierna en viktig roll och forskning om partier och partisystem är ett centralt tema inom statsvetenskaplig analys. I denna breda antologi ges en heltäckande introduktion till studier om politiska partiers och partisystems utveckling och förändring i Sverige, i andra länder och på EU-nivå. I boken presenteras partiforskningens grundläggande teorier om sociala skiljelinjer, partisystem och partityper. Partier som organi­sationer studeras med särskilt fokus på partikultur, partiernas finansiering, partimedlemmar, interndemokrati och partiledare.Partierna relateras till utbud och efterfrågan när radikala högerpopulistpartier, lokala partier, valkampanjer och representation granskas. Partier vid makten analyseras genom utförliga beskrivningar av kampen om inflytande via regeringsbildning, europeisk politik och politiska karriärer.De medverkande författarna är alla forskare som i denna antologi skriver inom sina expertområden och pedagogiskt redogör för aktuell forskning om politiska partier. Partier och partisystem vänder sig i första hand till studenter inom svensk och jämförande politik men är aktuell för alla statsvetare som intresserar sig för frågor om de politiska partiernas roll i den representativa demokratin. Denna tredje upplaga är grundligt reviderad och uppdaterad med hänsyn till aktuella förhållanden.

Civilsamhället är en grundpelare i en livskraftig demokrati – men vad består dess demokratibidrag egentligen av? Trots att dess roll kan uppfattas som självklar saknas ofta breda analyser av vad civilsamhället faktiskt betyder för medborgare, institutioner och det offentliga samtalet.Civilsamhället i demokratin ger en klar och tillgänglig översikt över civilsamhällets roller i och för demokratin. Boken presenterar både teoretiska och empiriska perspektiv och visar hur det svenska civilsamhället är organiserat i ett internationellt sammanhang.Boken riktar sig i första hand till studenter i samhällsvetenskapliga ämnen, men är också relevant för verksamma inom civilsamhället och myndigheter. Den vänder sig till alla som söker kunskap om hur demokrati formas och fördjupas genom människors organisering och engagemang.

The Value of Events fills an important niche in the literature on events, being the first book to comprehensively deal with the subject of value creation and measurement, as opposed to impact assessment and programme evaluation. Value creation and measurement is often done routinely from specific perspectives such as tourism, event management, corporate marketing, or customer satisfaction. However, there exist a number of discourses on value and evaluation that have not yet received adequate attention, including the justification of governmental intervention and the costs and benefits of hosting major events.This edited book, written by an international group of academics with expertise in the relevant fields of events, tourism, sport and culture, offers new insight into events and their relationship to sustainability, social responsibility, cultural and social value. Fostering debate in the context of conceptual thinking, philosophising, multiple stakeholder perspectives and interdisciplinary approaches, it challenges the events industry, students, policy-makers and strategists with new perspectives on value, with implications for impact forecasting and assessment.This is a book for all students pursuing degrees in fields where planned events are important topics, while being of great interest to researchers, policy-makers, evaluators and organisers/managers of planned events. Within a subject in need of further attention, The Value of Events offers the most comprehensive overview of event value to date.

This book contributes to the understanding of how tourism can be designed to provide conditions for learning. This involves learning for tourists, the tourist industry, public authorities and local communities. We explore how tourism, knowledge and learning can be used as means towards sustainable development through current, new or changed structures, concepts, activities and communication efforts. The book should be seen as both an inspiration for tourism actors (e.g. tourism attractions, policy makers and other industry actors), and a scholarly contribution to further research. A holistic approach distinguishes this book from most existing literature that focuses on separate units of tourism, for instance, personal or community well-being, nature-based tourism, cultural heritage tourism or tourism that is a result of researchers’ travels (so-called scientific tourism). The various contributors to the book provide a range of perspectives and experiences, from social sciences with a focus on marketing, innovation management, human geography and environmental law, to arts and humanities with a focus on heritage studies, archaeology and photography, and, finally, to natural sciences with a focus on marine sciences.The Open Access version of this book, available at www.taylorfrancis.com, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license

This book contributes to the understanding of how tourism can be designed to provide conditions for learning. This involves learning for tourists, the tourist industry, public authorities and local communities. We explore how tourism, knowledge and learning can be used as means towards sustainable development through current, new or changed structures, concepts, activities and communication efforts. The book should be seen as both an inspiration for tourism actors (e.g. tourism attractions, policy makers and other industry actors), and a scholarly contribution to further research. A holistic approach distinguishes this book from most existing literature that focuses on separate units of tourism, for instance, personal or community well-being, nature-based tourism, cultural heritage tourism or tourism that is a result of researchers’ travels (so-called scientific tourism). The various contributors to the book provide a range of perspectives and experiences, from social sciences with a focus on marketing, innovation management, human geography and environmental law, to arts and humanities with a focus on heritage studies, archaeology and photography, and, finally, to natural sciences with a focus on marine sciences.The Open Access version of this book, available at www.taylorfrancis.com, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license

The Value of Events fills an important niche in the literature on events, being the first book to comprehensively deal with the subject of value creation and measurement, as opposed to impact assessment and programme evaluation. Value creation and measurement is often done routinely from specific perspectives such as tourism, event management, corporate marketing, or customer satisfaction. However, there exist a number of discourses on value and evaluation that have not yet received adequate attention, including the justification of governmental intervention and the costs and benefits of hosting major events.This edited book, written by an international group of academics with expertise in the relevant fields of events, tourism, sport and culture, offers new insight into events and their relationship to sustainability, social responsibility, cultural and social value. Fostering debate in the context of conceptual thinking, philosophising, multiple stakeholder perspectives and interdisciplinary approaches, it challenges the events industry, students, policy-makers and strategists with new perspectives on value, with implications for impact forecasting and assessment.This is a book for all students pursuing degrees in fields where planned events are important topics, while being of great interest to researchers, policy-makers, evaluators and organisers/managers of planned events. Within a subject in need of further attention, The Value of Events offers the most comprehensive overview of event value to date.

The book’s main purposes are to determine what statistical and other information is needed to formulate both the objects and the means of government economic policy and then to ask what theoretical tools should be used in order to clarify the issues of economic policy. Inflationary gap analysis, national budgeting techniques and the theory of economic fluctuations are examined against the experience of a country in which they have been intelligently applied. The book gives a lively account of Swedish economic thinking and of the economic policy debates in Sweden since 1920, discusses the scope and limitations of national forecasting and budgeting and assesses the relative merits of general and detailed measures of economic policy.

This book provides information on a statistical account and theoretical interpretation of Swedish business cycles since 1918 as well as a survey of the problems of economic policy, as revealed both in practice and in theoretical discussion, during the inter-war and post-war periods.

Elgar Research Agendas outline the future of research in a given area. Leading scholars are given the space to explore their subject in provocative ways, and map out the potential directions of travel. They are relevant but also visionary.Offering a unique collection of established and emerging perspectives on event management, this Research Agenda investigates contemporary themes and innovative methodologies. 10 chapters cover core topics in the current academic debate, exploring the development of event management from a management-oriented field into a multidisciplinary research area.Organised into three parts, the Research Agenda contains international contributions from academics across tourism, geography, management, psychology and sociology fields. Initially tackling events in society, the book moves on to look specifically at the consumer, and finally examines the event organization. Chapters recommend the integration of events in geographical and political contexts, suggesting research agendas for the future that focus on the spectator, the participant and, ultimately, the consumer.Critical reading for management and tourism scholars, this book offers key insights to developing topics in the field. Event practitioners and policy makers will also greatly benefit from reading this.

Elgar Research Agendas outline the future of research in a given area. Leading scholars are given the space to explore their subject in provocative ways, and map out the potential directions of travel. They are relevant but also visionary.Offering a unique collection of established and emerging perspectives on event management, this Research Agenda investigates contemporary themes and innovative methodologies. 10 chapters cover core topics in the current academic debate, exploring the development of event management from a management-oriented field into a multidisciplinary research area.Organised into three parts, the Research Agenda contains international contributions from academics across tourism, geography, management, psychology and sociology fields. Initially tackling events in society, the book moves on to look specifically at the consumer, and finally examines the event organization. Chapters recommend the integration of events in geographical and political contexts, suggesting research agendas for the future that focus on the spectator, the participant and, ultimately, the consumer.Critical reading for management and tourism scholars, this book offers key insights to developing topics in the field. Event practitioners and policy makers will also greatly benefit from reading this.

Efter djupgående meningsskiljaktigheter bryter 1846 den tyske arbetaragitatorn Wilhelm Weitling med Karl Marx. Kanske är det ett vägskäl i historien? Med avstamp i tiden kring Kommunistiska manifestets f­ödelse följer Erik Lundberg den underström av radikalt politiskt tänkande som har sin grund i den ursprungliga kristendomens dröm om egendoms­gemenskap och en mänsklighet i jämlik fredlig samverkan en tradition som löper såväl bakåt som framåt i tiden och som opponerat sig mot marxismens vetenskapliga anspråk. Kan det vara så att evangeliets inneboende sprängkraft i vår tid manifesterats i de omvälvande händelserna efter 1989, med Lech Walesa och de pol­ska hamnarbetarnas solidaritetsstrejker, Berlin­murens fall och statssocial­ismens kollaps? I Erik Lundbergs sedvanligt personliga ton målas tidens händelser och personer upp. Vi möter, förutom Wilhelm Weitling, radikala tänkare och aktivister som Gustav Landauer, Michail Bakunin, Louis Auguste Blanqui, Simone Weil, Walter Benjamin och många fler. "Evangeliet och manifestet" ingår i förlagets serie Svart sten.