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Central steering and local networks — old-age care in Sweden
Author(s)	Roine Johansson, Klas Borell
Journal title	Public Administration, vol 77, no 3, 1999
Pages	pp 585-598
Keywords	Services ; Management [care] ; Government administration ; Social policy ; Sweden.
Annotation	The Ådel (care of the elderly) reform represents an early stage in the development of increased emphasis on collaboration in local networks in Swedish public administration, whereby boundaries between regional and local areas of responsibility are displaced. By using a variety of control methods, central government has been able to structure and steer old-age implementation networks. The consequences of this central steering have differed between administration levels: for the county councils, the reform has resulted in a specialisation for the core areas of primary health care and hospital treatment, whereas the municipalities have had to diversify their areas of activity. Thus, to understand the effects of the reform, implementation networks must be viewed as both hierarchical and horizontal power structures, where national government can affect formally horizontal relations between those creating patterns of interdependence. (RH).
Accession Number	CPA-000512205 A
Classmark	I: QA: VK: TM2: 76P *
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