Under the Press(ure)? The Role of Media in Organisation and Provision of Municipal Elderly Care

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  • Signe Jernberg Department of Business and Economic Studies, University of Gävle, Sweden
  • Josef Pallas Department of Business Studies, Uppsala University, Sweden

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.58235/sjpa.v26i2.7027

Keywords:

elderly care, governance, municipalities, media, administration

Abstract

What is the role of media(tisation) in organisation and provision of elderly care? By looking at how planning, organising and execution of elderly care is understood in two Swedish municipalities this paper seeks to contribute to discussions of the ways in which values, preferences and working practices of news media play out in shaping conditions for provision of municipal welfare services. Our findings suggest that we can see the role of media values and preferences as embedded – although in different ways and to varying extent – in three distinct but inter-related processes that influence how actors connected to organisation and provision of municipal welfare services understand and relate to each other. These are: 1) setting the aims, aspirations and priorities in the provision of welfare services (i.e., the what); 2) translating these aims, aspirations and priorities into necessary means, resources and activities (i.e., the how); and 3) explaining and justifying the what and the how to different constituencies (i.e., the why). The paper concludes that commonly held values and beliefs about media reinforce the ongoing changes in the governing regime of elderly care in a direction where the role of municipal administrative bodies is more explicitly articulated, especially in terms of accountability and responsibility.

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Author Biographies

Signe Jernberg, Department of Business and Economic Studies, University of Gävle, Sweden

Signe Jernberg, PhD, is a senior lecturer at the University of Gävle. Her research interests focus on organisation and governance of higher education institutions. In her thesis and following publications Signe seeks to understand the processes through which universities and colleges gain their status as autonomous actors.

Josef Pallas, Department of Business Studies, Uppsala University, Sweden

Josef Pallas, PhD, is Professor at the department of Business Studies, Uppsala University. His research focuses on the expansion, dynamics and consequences of mediatisation and other related societal processes that shape the governance and organisation of public sector organisations in general and universities, government agencies and municipalities in particular.

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Published

2022-06-15

How to Cite

Jernberg, S., & Pallas, J. (2022). Under the Press(ure)? The Role of Media in Organisation and Provision of Municipal Elderly Care. Scandinavian Journal of Public Administration, 26(2), 67–88. https://doi.org/10.58235/sjpa.v26i2.7027

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