Rickard Blomstrand

Bio: Rickard Blomstrand is an academic researcher. The author has an hindex of 1, co-authored 1 publications receiving 6 citations.

Förutsättningar för krisberedskap och totalförsvar i Sverige

Abstract: Denna rapport beskriver utvecklingen av totalforsvaret och framvaxten av omradet samhallsskydd och beredskap. Den ska ge en overgripande bild av hur det ser ut idag pa lokal, regional och nationell ...

Responsibilization in contemporary Swedish crisis management : expanding ‘bare life’ biopolitics through exceptionalism and neoliberal governmentality

Abstract: The aim of this paper is to investigate the changing relations between individuals and public authorities within the Swedish crisis management system from 1995 to 2017. After the end of the Cold Wa...

Crisis management : Psychological challenges for leaders

Abstract: “I have my daily duties and then there are the crisis and risk issues in a kind of sideline track /.../ this area tends to be postponed until the summer when we have more time to address it.”This q ...

Democracy and Technocracy in Sweden's Experience of the COVID-19 Pandemic

Abstract: Sweden's management of the coronavirus pandemic, beginning in early 2020, has been much discussed because it deviated from other countries' equivalents. Set in the context of scholarly debate about the balance between politicians and experts in political decision-making, we argue that a necessary condition for this case of Swedish exceptionalism was the manner of policy-making adopted by the Swedish authorities. In this article, we describe this policy-making procedure, which involved a radical form of delegation by elected politicians to appointed experts, and seek to explain how it came about. We focus on the 1st year of the pandemic, and use media reports and other public documents, including parts of a public inquiry, as our empirical material.

Frivilligresurser under flyktingsituationen : Frivilliga försvarsorganisationer och trossamfunds förmåga att möta samhällets behov hösten 2015

Abstract: Flyktingsituationen hosten 2015 innebar stora pafrestningar for det svenska samhallet. Samtidigt fanns ett sallan skadat engagemang och vilja bland allmanheten till att bidra. Det civila samhallet ...