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Mergers of semi-autonomous central agencies: The Swedish trajectory and the case of the Swedish Social Insurance Agency

As the number of autonomous executive agencies increases, some countries have started merging agencies, thereby aiming to reduce fragmentation and cut public spending. These mergers have passed conspicuously unnoticed in research. In Sweden, the current wave of agency mergers started in the 1990ies. This paper aims to (1) give a background to the Swedish trajectory with agency mergers and to (2),

A Critical Reflection on Research on Gender, IT and Learning – intersections of pleasures and challenges of interdisciplinary research

GLIT Learning Lund and Centre for Gender Studies Lund University, Sweden Sara.Goodman@genus.lu.se Abstract for Symposium Gender, IT and Learning, Helsingborg 23 -25 August 2007 This paper is a critical and personal reflection over developments in wide a dynamic research area - Gender, IT (ICT) and Learning. It aims to give a critical reflection on themes and issues that are the fields of study -

Practitioners' Expectations on Development Processes

The software process is important for learning in software engineering. Experience from earlier projects is transferred to later projects through the process. This type of experience is important for all practitioners, but work with software process improvement (SPI) is in many cases only carried out by management. We report from an interview study where practitioners have been interviewed about t

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Abstract in German Die Verdichtung internationalen und häufig auch interkulturellen Kontaktes und Austausches in ganz unterschiedlichen Bereichen menschlicher Tätigkeit haben eine Welt geschaffen, in welcher der Zugang zu anderen, alternativen Wissensdomänen leichter denn je erscheint. Vor allem die Wissenschaft wird im allgemeinen als die Gewinnerin dieser globalen Vernetzung angesehen. Gleichzei

The Theology of Land in Jewish-Christian Relations and Its Role in Misunderstandings between Jews and Christians

Without sufficient knowledge of the painful history of Jewish-Christian apologetics and polemics, commencing already in late antiquity and continuing to medieval times, one easily fails to recognize the complexities of current Christian approaches to the Land, now known as Israel and/or Palestine. The purpose of this chapter is to examine the interplay of theology and politics, and especially to r