Regionalt styre och förvaltning

Del 26 - Semiotext(e) / Intervention Series

Breathing

Chaos and Poetry

AvFranco "Bifo" Berardi

Häftad, Engelska, 2018

149 kr

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Mönstersamhället

AvAnneli Rogeman

Inbunden, Svenska, 2021

(5)

219 kr

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2021**Augustprisnominerad till Årets svenska fackbok 2021**

Sagt om bokenMönstersamhället är Anneli Rogemans egen historia, samtidigt som den är Sveriges. Den är en glänsande nyckel till samhällsförståelse.Svenska Dagbladet

Anneli Rogemans skildring av Boliden är en känslig och välskriven bok om en orts uppgång och nedgång i Västerbottens inland. Norrbottens-Kuriren

1924 hittades guld i skogarna utanför det som idag är Boliden i Västerbottens inland. En gruvindustri byggdes upp – och ett samhälle. Gruvbolaget ville locka arbetare, tjänstemän och gruvexperter till ett perfekt samhälle som var rent, snyggt och modernt – ett mönstersamhälle.

Boliden växte fram under samma tid som folkhemmet. I den här bruksmiljön var det bolaget – inte det allmänna – som tog ansvar för tryggheten, men målet var i grunden detsamma. De följdes åt, Bolidens utveckling och det svenska samhällets. Klassamhällets emblem, de auktoritära styrelsesätten, men även samförstånden mellan arbetare och direktörer, mycket var typiskt svenskt. Bolidens själva tillblivelse var unik och guldet gav under flera decennier allt en särskild lyster.

Men vad hände när guldet tog slut? Hur ser Boliden ut idag? Samhället liknar delvis utvecklingen som andra mindre svenska samhällen har genomgått. Särskilt de bruksorter som ligger långt ifrån storstäderna. Men det finns också en del spektakulära skillnader.

Anneli Rogeman växte upp i Boliden, hennes pappa blev chef i gruvbolaget. I Mönstersamhället återvänder hon till sin hemort och skildrar hur samhället skapades, hur det delades upp i klasser och hur det formade människorna som levde och växte upp där. Och om vad som hände när guldet tog slut och nya mönster växte fram i Boliden, mönstersamhället i norra Västerbotten.

Young Man in a Hurry: A Memoir of Discovery

AvGavin Newsom

Häftad, Engelska, 2026

336 kr

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Origins of Happiness

The Science of Well-Being over the Life Course

AvAndrew Clark,Sarah Flèchem. fl.

Häftad, Engelska, 2019

239 kr

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A new perspective on life satisfaction and well-being over the life courseWhat makes people happy? The Origins of Happiness seeks to revolutionize how we think about human priorities and to promote public policy changes that are based on what really matters to people. Drawing on a range of evidence using large-scale data from various countries, the authors consider the key factors that affect human well-being, including income, education, employment, family conflict, health, childcare, and crime. The Origins of Happiness offers a groundbreaking new vision for how we might become more healthy, happy, and whole.

Regionboken : Sverige på regional nivå

AvAgneta Blom,Jörgen Johanssonm. fl.

Häftad, Svenska, 2022

360 kr

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Den regionala samhällsnivån har ökat i betydelse i både svenskt och europeiskt samhällsliv. Utvecklingen av regionerna har, enligt internationell forskning, utgjort den enskilt mest betydelsefulla förändringen i många europeiska länders statssystem. I Sverige blev alla landsting regioner 2019, med ansvar för hälso- och sjukvård och regional utveckling. Men resan dit har varit både komplex och konfliktfylld. Ansvar för och utformning av centrala funktioner som hälso- och sjukvård, klimatarbete, relationen stad–land, näringslivets förnyelse och samhällsberedskap är inte självklar.I den här boken undersöks spänningsfältet mellan stat och regional självstyrelse, i en föränderlig geografi och ur ett demokratiperspektiv. Syftet är att bidra till en fördjupad förståelse av politik och förvaltning på regional nivå i Sverige. Regionboken vänder sig till lärare och studenter i samhällsvetenskapliga ämnen vid högskolor och universitet, men också till den som har en aktiv roll i regioner, statliga myndigheter och kommuner, i näringsliv och civilsamhälle.

A Libertarian Walks Into a Bear

The Utopian Plot to Liberate an American Town (And Some Bears)

AvMatthew Hongoltz-Hetling

Häftad, Engelska, 2021

178 kr

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Once upon a time, a group of libertarians got together and hatched the Free Town Project, a plan to take over an American town and completely eliminate its government. In 2004, Grafton, NH, a barely populated settlement with one paved road, turned that plan into reality.Public funding for pretty much everything shrank: the fire department, the library, the schoolhouse. State and federal laws didn't disappear, but they got quieter: meek suggestions barely heard in the town's thick wilderness.The bears, on the other hand, were increasingly visible. Grafton's freedom-loving citizens ignored hunting laws and regulations on food disposal. They built a tent city, in an effort to get off the grid. And with a large and growing local bear population, conflict became inevitable.A Libertarian Walks Into a Bear is both a screwball comedy and the story of a radically American commitment to freedom. Full of colorful characters, puns and jokes, and one large social experiment, it is a quintessentially American story, a bearing of our national soul.

People and Forests

Communities, Institutions, and Governance

AvClark C. Gibson,Margaret A. McKeanm. fl.

Häftad, Engelska, 2000

578 kr

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Not All In

Race, Immigration, and Health Care Exclusion in the Age of Obamacare

AvTiffany D. Joseph

Inbunden, Engelska, 2025

456 kr

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Examines how health policy shifts fail to fully serve immigrant communities due to structural racism and anti-immigrant rhetoric and enforcement measures.Despite progressive policy strides in health care reform, immigrant communities continue to experience stark disparities across the United States. In Not All In, Tiffany D. Joseph exposes the insidious contradiction of Massachusetts' advanced health care system and the exclusionary experiences of its immigrant communities. Joseph illustrates how patients' race, ethnicity, and legal status determine their access to health coverage and care services, revealing a disturbing paradox where policy advances and individual experiences drastically diverge. Examining Boston's Brazilian, Dominican, and Salvadoran communities, this book provides an exhaustive analysis spanning nearly a decade to highlight the profound impacts of the Affordable Care Act and subsequent policy shifts on these marginalized groups. Not All In is a critical examination of the systemic barriers that perpetuate health care disparities. Joseph challenges readers to confront the uncomfortable truths about racialized legal status and its profound implications on health care access. This essential book illuminates the complexities of policy implementation and advocates for more inclusive reforms that genuinely cater to all. Urging policymakers, health care providers, and activists to rethink strategies that bridge the gap between legislation and life, this book reminds us that in the realm of health care, being progressive is not synonymous with inclusivity.

Megaprojektet Nya Karolinska Solna : beslutsprocesserna bakom en sjukvårdsreform

Häftad, Svenska, 2021

(2)

271 kr

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Nya Karolinska Solna (NKS) har fått stor medial uppmärksamhet under senare år. Sjukhusbygget har pågått under lång tid, rymt en stor budget och berört många människor. Det har ömsom hyllats, ömsom ifrågasatts. Här redovisas resultaten av ett treårigt forskningsprojekt som har undersökt beslutsprocesserna bakom NKS.

Boken handlar om de idéer som har varit betydelsefulla i beslutsprocesserna, om de aktörer som har agerat i dessa processer och om hur processerna har organiserats och kontrollerats. Ambitionen är att öka förståelsen för och kunskapen om den typ av komplexa beslutsprocesser som kännetecknar megaprojekt som NKS. Projektet har bedrivits vid Stockholms universitet i ett samarbete mellan Statsvetenskapliga institutionen, Stockholms centrum för forskning om offentlig sektor (Score) och Kulturgeografiska institutionen.

Medverkande författare: Catrin Andersson · Staffan Furusten · Lena Fält · Maria Grafström · Livia Johannesson · Sven-Olof Junker · Torbjörn Larsson · Martin Qvist · Lukas Smas · Göran Sundström · Carl Yngfalk

Strategic Intelligence for American World Policy

AvSherman Kent

Häftad, Engelska, 2025

457 kr

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The classic book that established the principles and methods of modern intelligence analysisWith the outbreak of the Second World War, historian Sherman Kent left his classroom at Yale to join the Office of Strategic Services—the forerunner of the Central Intelligence Agency—where he adapted scholarly methods to the rigors and unique challenges of producing actionable intelligence in support of the war effort. In this remarkable book, Kent draws on the lessons he learned in wartime to lay the foundations for postwar security. He presents the doctrine and practices of intelligence analysis and explains why they are vital to national survival. Strategic Intelligence for American World Policy shows how intelligence activities and their consequences extend far beyond military considerations and are as essential to keeping the peace as they are to winning the war.

Patchwork Leviathan

Pockets of Bureaucratic Effectiveness in Developing States

AvErin Metz McDonnell

Häftad, Engelska, 2020

309 kr

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Corruption and ineffectiveness are often expected of public servants in developing countries. However, some groups within these states are distinctly more effective and public oriented than the rest. Why? Patchwork Leviathan explains how a few spectacularly effective state organizations manage to thrive amid general institutional weakness and succeed against impressive odds. Drawing on the Hobbesian image of the state as Leviathan, Erin Metz McDonnell argues that many seemingly weak states actually have a wide range of administrative capacities. Such states are in fact patchworks sewn loosely together from scarce resources into the semblance of unity.McDonnell demonstrates that when the human, cognitive, and material resources of bureaucracy are rare, it is critically important how they are distributed. Too often, scarce bureaucratic resources are scattered throughout the state, yielding little effect. McDonnell reveals how a sufficient concentration of resources clustered within particular pockets of a state can be transformative, enabling distinctively effective organizations to emerge from a sea of ineffectiveness.Patchwork Leviathan offers a comprehensive analysis of successful statecraft in institutionally challenging environments, drawing on cases from contemporary Ghana and Nigeria, mid-twentieth-century Kenya and Brazil, and China in the early twentieth century. Based on nearly two years of pioneering fieldwork in West Africa, this incisive book explains how these highly effective pockets differ from the Western bureaucracies on which so much state and organizational theory is based, providing a fresh answer to why well-funded global capacity-building reforms fail—and how they can do better.

Young Man in a Hurry: A Memoir of Discovery

AvGavin Newsom

Inbunden, Engelska, 2026

348 kr

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Evolution of New Working Spaces

Changing Nature and Geographies

AvIlaria Mariotti,Elisabete Tomazm. fl.

Häftad, Engelska, 2024

437 kr

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This open access book provides multidisciplinary perspectives on the changing dynamics of new working spaces, with insights from various European countries and observing critical theoretical approaches.

Friends, Voters, Countrymen

AvBoris Johnson

Häftad, Engelska, 2002

154 kr

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A lively, idiosyncratic, witty look at the heart of our political process by a man who has crossed over from observer to activist, to become one of our newest members of parliament.Boris Johnson, celebrated for his blonde thatch of hair as well as for his brilliant writing in the newspapers, and much liked for his appearances on television and radio, took notes throughout his period as prospective candidate and the election campaign. The result is a book that is lovely and fascinating, outspoken and funny, and yet raises real questions about the democratic process.Have you ever wondered about becoming a Member of Parliament? Or why other people do? Or considered what the prospective parliamentary candidates do as they stump around the constituency – making speeches, kissing babies, knocking on front doors, providing newspaper copy? Or what difference it makes to us?Boris Johnson has been a candidate in two elections. As a journalist, he is used to writing about politicians. Now he is himself being interviewed. So what does it feel like, with the tables turned?In his own inimitable style, Boris Johnson writes about his views on the role of MPs and what they can achieve today. He comments on life on the stump, and the pleasure (mostly) of meeting voters, on political parties, current issues, and how to persuade people to vote – all interwoven with stories of what happened to him on his way to a meeting…

Chancellor

The Remarkable Odyssey of Angela Merkel

AvKati Marton

Inbunden, Engelska, 2021

291 kr

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‘An intimate, insightful portrait of an extraordinarily private leader’ WALTER ISAACSONFrom the bestselling author of Enemies of the People An intimate and deeply researched account of the extraordinary rise and political brilliance of the most powerful – and elusive – woman in the world. Angela Merkel has always been an outsider. A pastor’s daughter raised in Soviet-controlled East Germany, she spent her twenties working as a research chemist, only entering politics after the fall of the Berlin Wall. And yet within fifteen years, she had become chancellor of Germany and, before long, the unofficial leader of the West.Acclaimed author Kati Marton sets out to pierce the mystery of this unlikely ascent. With unparalleled access to the chancellor’s inner circle and a trove of records only recently come to light, she teases out the unique political genius that is the secret to Merkel’s success. No other modern leader has so ably confronted authoritarian aggression, enacted daring social policies and calmly unified an entire continent in an era when countries are becoming only more divided. Again and again, she’s cleverly outmanoeuvred strongmen like Putin and Trump, and weathered surprisingly complicated relationships with allies like Obama and Macron.Famously private, the woman who emerges from these pages is a role model for anyone interested in gaining and keeping power while staying true to one’s moral convictions. At once a riveting political biography, an intimate human portrait and a revelatory look at successful leadership in action, The Chancellor brings forth from the shadows one of the most extraordinary women of our time.

Chancellor

The Remarkable Odyssey of Angela Merkel

AvKati Marton

Häftad, Engelska, 2022

(1)

132 kr

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‘An intimate, insightful portrait of an extraordinarily private leader’ WALTER ISAACSONFrom the bestselling author of Enemies of the People An intimate and deeply researched account of the extraordinary rise and political brilliance of the most powerful – and elusive – woman in the world. Angela Merkel has always been an outsider. A pastor’s daughter raised in Soviet-controlled East Germany, she spent her twenties working as a research chemist, only entering politics after the fall of the Berlin Wall. And yet within fifteen years, she had become chancellor of Germany and, before long, the unofficial leader of the West.Acclaimed author Kati Marton sets out to pierce the mystery of this unlikely ascent. With unparalleled access to the chancellor’s inner circle and a trove of records only recently come to light, she teases out the unique political genius that is the secret to Merkel’s success. No other modern leader has so ably confronted authoritarian aggression, enacted daring social policies and calmly unified an entire continent in an era when countries are becoming only more divided. Again and again, she’s cleverly outmanoeuvred strongmen like Putin and Trump, and weathered surprisingly complicated relationships with allies like Obama and Macron.Famously private, the woman who emerges from these pages is a role model for anyone interested in gaining and keeping power while staying true to one’s moral convictions. At once a riveting political biography, an intimate human portrait and a revelatory look at successful leadership in action, The Chancellor brings forth from the shadows one of the most extraordinary women of our time.

These Isles

A People’s History of England, Ireland, Scotland and Wales

AvBrian Groom

Inbunden, Engelska, 2026

229 kr

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An inventive new look at the entwined histories of Britain and Ireland’s nations – and the people who have called them home. Acclaimed author and journalist Brian Groom reveals the colourful and often-contested history of the Celts, Romans, Anglo-Saxons, Vikings, Normans and others who have occupied these islands, along with their culture, languages and passions.Packed with surprise and insight, These Isles explores the role of religion, the British Empire, international diasporas and internal migration, gender relations and war in a nuanced and entertaining narrative.With forays into popular culture, sport, music, language, literature and art, These Isles stretches from 800,000-year-old footprints on a Norfolk beach to the changing fortunes of the early twenty-first century. It offers a uniquely rich and kaleidoscopic vision of the shared stories of people across Britain and Ireland – past and present.