PIERRE, Jon

Dépolitisée, repolitisée ou simplement politique? La bureaucratie suédoise - Paris : IIAP, avril/juin 1998

It is hard to measure the degree of politicisation of the Swedish civil service. On the one hand, like any civil service, it is, due to its very role in society, political. On the other hand, the existence of political tendencies in civil servants in no way constitutes proof of politicisation one way or another to be measured from an individual and institutional point of view. The Swedish institutional system seems to be a defence against general politicisation and probably contributes towards checking the influence of the new public management