Research

Research projects

Intermunicipal cooperation - an appropriate response to local government austerity?
Funded by The Swedish Research Council for Sustainable Development (Formas)

Education policy as an instrument for regional development policy: Intermunicipal cooperation in vocational education and training
Funded by the Centre for Local Government Studies

Publications

Persson, Bo & Elin Backström (2022a), "Hållbara strukturer för mellankommunal samverkan? En studie av kommunalförbund inom gymnasieutbildningsområdet." Linköpings universitet (CKS-rapport 2022:2), Centrum för kommunstrategiska studier (CKS).

Persson, Bo & Elin Backström (2022b), ”Svenska kommuners samverkan om gymnasieskolan: drivkrafter, förutsättningar och hinder”, Nordisk Administrativt Tidsskrift, 99(1): 1-26.

Hermelin, B. & B. Persson (2021). Regional governance in second-tier city-regions in Sweden: a multi-scalar approach to institutional change. Regional Studies, Epub ahead of print 25 March 2021, DOI: 10.1080/00343404.2021.1896693

Persson, B. & F. Kitagawa (2021), “Decentralisation and Reconfiguration of Multilevel Research Policy: The Case of Sweden” i T. Bergström, J. Franzke, S. Kuhlmann, och E. Wayenberg, E. (Red.) The Future of Local Self-Government: European Trends in Autonomy, Innovations and Central-Local Relations. London: Palgrave Macmillan. 

Persson, B., Hermelin, B.  (2020), “Decentralised cooperation between industries and local governments in a statist skill-formation system: an analysis of industrial schools in Sweden.”, Journal of Vocational Education & Training, DOI: 10.1080/13636820.2020.1829007 

Sandberg, Johanna, Bo Persson och Peter Garpenby (2019), “The dilemma of knowledge use in political decision-making: National Guidelines in a Swedish priority-setting context”, Health Economics, Policy and Law, 14 (4), s. 425-442.

Persson, B. and B. Hermelin. (2019), “Näringslivets roll inom yrkesutbildningen – en analys av två industrigymnasier.” i J. Syssner (red.) Ett nytt kontrakt för samhällsbyggande, Boxholm: Linnefors förlag.

Persson, B. and B. Hermelin. (2018),“Mobilising for Change in Vocational Education and Training in Sweden: A Case Study of the ‘Technical College’ Scheme.” Journal of Vocational Education and Training, 70 (3): 476–496.

Persson, Bo (2018), "Interests, ideas, and legacies of the past: Analyzing the positions and strategies of Swedish policy actors in the establishment of the European Research Council”, European Educational Research Journal, 17 (3): 404-420.

Persson, Bo (2018), Kommuner som forskningspolitiska aktörer: En jämförelse mellan Norrköping och Örebro. Centrum för Kommunstrategiska studier (CKS), rapport 2018:10, Linköpings universitet.

Persson, B. (2017), “What shapes research policy at the local government level? The establishment of a research fund in a Swedish municipality”, The Scandinavian Journal of Public Administration, 21 (4): 77-96.

Johansson, Jörgen, Lars Niklasson & Bo Persson (2015), "The role of municipalities in the bottom-up formation of a meta-region in Sweden”, The Scandinavian Journal of Public Administration, 19 (4): 71-88.

Persson, Bo (2012), “Constructing an innovation policy agency: The case of the Swedish Governmental Agency for Innovation Systems”, i A. Rickne, S. Laestadius & H. Etzkowitz (red.) Innovation Governance in an Open Economy: Shaping Regional Nodes in a Globalized World, London: Routledge.

 

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