Local autonomy and the partnership principle: Collaborative governance in the European Social Fund in Sweden

Vanja Carlsson, Dalia Mukhtar-Landgren and Mats Fred

Public Money & Management, 2025, vol. 45, issue 5, 391-399

Abstract: This article analyses the democratic autonomy of local public actors in collaborative organizational arrangements within the context of the European Social Investment Fund (ESIF). The authors outline three different ways that collaborations materialize in organizational arrangements and analyse how these organizational arrangements influence a municipality’s capacity to set policy priorities and decide upon organizational matters. The study shows that autonomy varies within these partnerships depending on the degree of formalization of collaboration; the inclusion of local government actors; and the extent to which the collaborative actors are predetermined by regulation.

Date: 2025
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DOI: 10.1080/09540962.2022.2076516

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