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Erik Lundberg Doctoral student Örebro University erik.lundberg@oru.se

New Defenders of the Welfare State? The Restructuring of the Swedish Welfare State and the Role of Civil Society in the Policy Process. Erik Lundberg Doctoral student Örebro University erik.lundberg@oru.se. The problem.

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Erik Lundberg Doctoral student Örebro University erik.lundberg@oru.se

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  1. New Defenders of the Welfare State?The Restructuring of the Swedish Welfare State and the Role of Civil Society in the Policy Process Erik Lundberg Doctoral student Örebro University erik.lundberg@oru.se

  2. The problem • During the last decades: shifting boundaries between CSO and the Swedish state • From a complement to an alternative to public welfare services • Researchers: The role of CSO has changed from input to output • Empirical evidence have been scarce • Historical perspective is missing • Limited part of CSO

  3. Question • How has the participation of civil society in the policy process changedduring the second half of the 1900s and whatdoes that implies for the function of civil society to the welfarestate?

  4. Data and methods • Government Commissions of Sweden • 33 remiss-lists from nine policy fields: alcohol, housing, fishing, integration, hunting, nuclear energy, public service, social and education policies • Dimensions of participation

  5. Types of civil society organisations • Source: Partly modified (Wollebæk and Selle, 2008, Wollebæck and Selle, 2002)

  6. The changes of the welfare state • Coordination • Europeanization • New modes of governing • Implementation • Decentralisation and privatisation

  7. ResultsThe share of actual replies of civil society organisations, state and market actors between 1964 and 2009

  8. CSO participation (1964-1979 -2000-2009) • Decreasing levels of conflict and member benefit organisations • Increasing state interest for consensus and public benefit organisations • Increasing levels of abstentions, from 4.2 per cent to 9.9 per cent

  9. The share of actual replies and recipients between by types of civil society organisations (difference between 1964-2009)

  10. Proportional share of the recipients that chose not to answer the remiss by types of organisations

  11. Conclusions • The role of CSO has been reduced • Fewer CSO chose to participate in the remiss-procedure and • ... are requested for by the state • Ongoing shift from conflict to consensus and from member benefit to public benefit • The increasing relevance of the EU • New forms of governing • New challenges of the welfare state

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