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ABSTRACTSustainable development policies have for the last 10 years been a part of the Swedish domestic politics.The creation of a green welfare state has been on the agenda since 1996 and policies to construct thisgreen welfare state have been formed, though the actual implementation of these policies has been lessthen successful in many cases. Critique has been directed towards the administration and its lack of abilityto ensure that the policies are implemented in society. Some have even claimed that the bureaucracy isunable to implement sustainable development.The lack of realisation of Sustainable Development policies has been widely discussed. This thesisaims to analyse and explore, based on an organisational level, what type of obstacles the implementationof the policies meet when they are to be realised in the bureaucratic organisation. The thesis aims toanalyse the current setting of the organisation based on Max Weber’s ‘ideal type’ organisation, on astructural level, and Lennart Lundquist’s model on an actor level. The thesis uses these models tounderstand what type of changes that the organisation must carry out in the case of reconstruction toincrease the chances of implementing the current Sustainable Development policies that the state strives toimplement. The thesis uses a case study of Region Skåne, and uses this case to analyse the Regions’ workin regards to realising the Sustainable Development policies. The main aim is to understand and explorethe organisational structure and what obstacles it faces in regards to implementing SustainableDevelopment, as well as analysing a case study to see the impacts of possible change of this structure,based on the actor/structure of the organisation. Analysing and discussing the question if the bureaucracycan work as an actor of change to create a Sustainable society in Sweden based on the SustainableDevelopment policies defined by the state. The thesis presents an idea of the bureaucratic organisation asan agent of change in regards to creating a sustainable society.Keywords: Sustainable Development, Bureaucracy, Organisational change, Sweden.2
1. INTRODUCTION ......................................................................................................................51.2 PROBLEM AND AIM ...................................................................................................................62.2 DEFINITIONS...................................................................................................................................72.3 DISPOSITION ...................................................................................................................................82.4 THEORY ..........................................................................................................................................92.5 METHOD AND MATERIAL..............................................................................................................112.6 LIMITATIONS ................................................................................................................................122. THE WEBERIAN BUREAUCRATIC ORGANISATION ....................................................132.1 DEFINITION OF CURRENT ORGANISATIONS AND BUREAUCRACY ..................................................142.2 DEFINITION OF WEBER’S RATIONAL “BUREAUCRATIC ORGANISATION” .................................152.3 GOAL ORIENTED POLICIES AND ITS PROBLEMS.............................................................................172.4 CONCLUSION OF WEBER’S GOAL RATIONAL MODEL ....................................................................173. IMPLEMENTATION THEORY AND THE RATIONAL ACTOR ....................................183.1 WHAT IS STEERING: ACTORS OF STEERING...................................................................................183.2 ACTORS OF IMPLEMENTATION OF POLICY. ...................................................................................183.3 CONCLUSION OF THE THEORIES....................................................................................................20Figure 1: Example of Ideal type organisational policy implementation based on traditional policy construction .....214. BACKGROUND TO THE CASE OF REGION SKÅNE........................................................214.1 SWEDEN’S SUSTAINABILITY POLICY AN HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE ..........................................234.1 HISTORY OF ENVIRONMENTAL POLICIES IN SWEDEN....................................................................23Figure 2. Causal Loop Diagram representing a general idea of ‘Ecological Modernisation’.................................254.2 SWEDEN AND ‘ECOLOGICAL MODERNISATION’ A HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE OF THE DEVELOPMENTOF THE GREEN WELFARE STATE. .........................................................................................................255. ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY ON STATE LEVEL...............................................................265.1 ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY ON LOCAL LEVEL.................................................................................285.2 ORGANISATIONAL REFORMATION AND SD POLICIES .....................................................................296.THE CURRENT SWEDISH BUREAUCRATIC SETTING ...................................................316.1 THE STRUCTURE OF THE SWEDISH POLITICAL SYSTEM ..................................................................316.2 DECENTRALISATION / GOVERNANCE............................................................................................326.3 TRADITIONAL POLICY TYPES ........................................................................................................346.4 PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION AND THE BUREAUCRATIC ORGANISATION ANALYSIS BASED ON THE‘IDEAL TYPE’ ......................................................................................................................................356.5 THE BUREAUCRATIC ACTOR AND SD POLICY IMPLEMENTATION .................................................366.6 THE PROBLEM WITH THE SWEDISH ORGANISATIONAL SETTING AND SD......................................363
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