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ArticleEuropean policy analysis2022

Pandemic responses at the subnational level: Exploring politics, administration, and politicization in Swedish municipalities.

Jörgen Sparf, Evangelia Petridou, Mikael Granberg, Per Becker, Beatrice Onn

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5 authors.

Jörgen SparfRisk and Crisis Research Center Mid Sweden University Östersund Sweden.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0202-0609
Evangelia PetridouRisk and Crisis Research Center Mid Sweden University Östersund Sweden.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7316-4899
Mikael GranbergPolitical Science and The Centre for Societal Risk Research Karlstad University Karlstad Sweden.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5356-4112
Per BeckerDivision of Risk Management and Societal Safety Lund University Lund Sweden.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9379-9461
Beatrice OnnIndependent Researcher Stockholm Sweden.

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The Swedish response to the pandemic at the national level has attracted considerable international attention, but little focus has been placed on the way municipalities dealt with the crisis. Using Hay's dimensions of politicization, namely the capacity for human agency, deliberation in the public domain, and social context, we analyze the politicization of the municipal response to the pandemic in Sweden. We do this based on the analysis of the decision making process to activate (or not) an extraordinary crisis management committee. We find inter alia, that (i) only a quarter of the municipalities activated the committee while a majority of them had an alternate special organization in place; (ii) support to the existing organizational structure was more salient than creating an extraordinary organization, and (iii) a robust municipal structure was deemed to be one able to withstand shocks without resorting to extraordinary governance arrangements. We find a 'conditioned politicization' of the response, privileging administration over politics.

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COVID 19local governmentpoliticizationpolitics administration dichotomySweden

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PMID35942065
PMCPMC9347882

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