The Increasing Importance of Administrative Practices in the Shaping of the Welfare State

In this article we analyse changes in the Swedish welfare state through the example of the municipal social care services for older persons. It is shown that one can trace a transformation to three different processes (layers) of change. When looked upon as complementary phenomena they show why...

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Main Authors: Staffan Blomberg, Jan Petersson
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Social Work & Society 2011-06-01
Series:Social Work and Society
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Online Access:https://ejournals.bib.uni-wuppertal.de/index.php/sws/article/view/24