Europa 2020-strategin och kommunerna : en fallstudie om kommunernas inställning till implementering av Sveriges nationella mål
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Summary, in English
Purpose: The Swedish Government considers it is important that both the local and regional level integrates the Europe 2020 strategy. The government expresses that the local municipality level has a central role to achieve some of the Swedish country-specific recommendations. The aim is to increase the understanding of the municipalities’ attitudes towards implementation of the Swedish country-specific recommendations.
Question: What attitude do examined municipalities have towards implementation of the Swedish country-specific recommendations?
Methodology: The paper’s methodological approach is a qualitative research method with a case study research design.
Theories: The theoretical framework consists of four theories: Reasons to implementation issues, such as the interest-, resource- and priority issue, and a one theory about local democracy and one theory about the representation and function of the local municipalities.
Empirical evidence: The primary data consists of eight semi-structured interviews, one politician and one none political official from four different municipalities. Empirical research examines attitudes towards implementation of the Swedish country-specific recommendations.
Conclusion: The Swedish country-specific recommendations must be locally accepted in order to get implemented in the municipalities’ local visions/goals. The municipalities prioritize local needs and the Swedish country-specific recommendations are often secondly prioritized.
Question: What attitude do examined municipalities have towards implementation of the Swedish country-specific recommendations?
Methodology: The paper’s methodological approach is a qualitative research method with a case study research design.
Theories: The theoretical framework consists of four theories: Reasons to implementation issues, such as the interest-, resource- and priority issue, and a one theory about local democracy and one theory about the representation and function of the local municipalities.
Empirical evidence: The primary data consists of eight semi-structured interviews, one politician and one none political official from four different municipalities. Empirical research examines attitudes towards implementation of the Swedish country-specific recommendations.
Conclusion: The Swedish country-specific recommendations must be locally accepted in order to get implemented in the municipalities’ local visions/goals. The municipalities prioritize local needs and the Swedish country-specific recommendations are often secondly prioritized.
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Publishing year
2013
Language
Swedish
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Document type
Student publication for Bachelor's degree
Topic
- Social Sciences
Keywords
- Municipality
- Europe 2020 strategy
- The Swedish country-specific recommendations
- Implementation
- Case study
Supervisor
- Mi Lennhag (PhD Candidate, MA, BA)