Paula Blomqvist
Professor at Department of Government; Faculty
- Telephone:
- +46 18 471 63 22
- Mobile phone:
- +46 70 223 97 67
- E-mail:
- Paula.Blomqvist@statsvet.uu.se
- Visiting address:
- Östra Ågatan 19
753 22 Uppsala - Postal address:
- Box 514
751 20 UPPSALA - Available:
- Gamla torget 3, 4 tr
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Publications
Selection of publications
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Have the Welfare Professions Lost Autonomy?: A Comparative Study of Doctors and Teachers
Part of Journal of Social Policy, p. 64-85, 2024
- DOI for Have the Welfare Professions Lost Autonomy?: A Comparative Study of Doctors and Teachers
- Download full text (pdf) of Have the Welfare Professions Lost Autonomy?: A Comparative Study of Doctors and Teachers
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Contracting out welfare services: how are private contractors held accountable?
Part of Public Management Review, p. 233-254, 2022
- DOI for Contracting out welfare services: how are private contractors held accountable?
- Download full text (pdf) of Contracting out welfare services: how are private contractors held accountable?
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Part of Policy & Society, p. 247-259, 2022
- DOI for Covid (In)equalities: labor market protection, health, and residential care in Germany, Sweden, and the UK
- Download full text (pdf) of Covid (In)equalities: labor market protection, health, and residential care in Germany, Sweden, and the UK
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Part of Health Economics, Policy and Law, p. 380-397, 2022
- DOI for Does voluntary health insurance reduce the use of and the willingness to finance public health care in Sweden?
- Download full text (pdf) of Does voluntary health insurance reduce the use of and the willingness to finance public health care in Sweden?
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Nordic welfare states-still standing or changed by the COVID-19 crisis?
Part of Social Policy & Administration, p. 295-311, 2021
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Preserving social equity in marketized primary care: strategies in Sweden
Part of Health Economics, Policy and Law, p. 216-231, 2021
- DOI for Preserving social equity in marketized primary care: strategies in Sweden
- Download full text (pdf) of Preserving social equity in marketized primary care: strategies in Sweden
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Part of Health Politics in Europe, p. 164-204, Oxford University Press, 2021
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Universalism in Welfare Policy: The Swedish Case beyond 1990
Part of Social Inclusion, p. 114-123, 2020
- DOI for Universalism in Welfare Policy: The Swedish Case beyond 1990
- Download full text (pdf) of Universalism in Welfare Policy: The Swedish Case beyond 1990
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Health insurance for the healthy?: Voluntary health insurance in Sweden
Part of Health Policy, p. 737-746, 2019
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Small is beautiful?: Explaining resident satisfaction in Swedish nursing home care
Part of BMC Health Services Research, 2019
- DOI for Small is beautiful?: Explaining resident satisfaction in Swedish nursing home care
- Download full text (pdf) of Small is beautiful?: Explaining resident satisfaction in Swedish nursing home care
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Why No Nonprofits?: State, Market, and the Strive for Universalism in Swedish Elder Care
Part of Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly, p. 513-531, 2019
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Negotiated compliance at the street level: Personalizing immunization in England, Israel and Sweden
Part of Public Administration, p. 195-209, 2019
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Market-orienting reforms in rural health care in Sweden: how can equity in access be preserved?
Part of International Journal for Equity in Health, 2018
- DOI for Market-orienting reforms in rural health care in Sweden: how can equity in access be preserved?
- Download full text (pdf) of Market-orienting reforms in rural health care in Sweden: how can equity in access be preserved?
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Risk selection in primary care: a cross-sectional fixed effect analysis of Swedish individual data
Part of BMJ Open, 2018
- DOI for Risk selection in primary care: a cross-sectional fixed effect analysis of Swedish individual data
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Professionalized through audit?: Care workers and the new audit regime in Sweden
Part of Social Policy & Administration, p. 631-645, 2018
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Privatization of social care delivery: how can contracts be specified?
Part of Public Management Review, p. 1643-1662, 2018
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Part of BMC Health Services Research, 2017
- DOI for Do public nursing home care providers deliver higher quality than private providers?: Evidence from Sweden
- Download full text (pdf) of Do public nursing home care providers deliver higher quality than private providers?: Evidence from Sweden
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Free establishment of primary health care providers: effects on geographical equity
Part of BMC Health Services Research, 2016
- DOI for Free establishment of primary health care providers: effects on geographical equity
- Download full text (pdf) of Free establishment of primary health care providers: effects on geographical equity
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User choice in Swedish eldercare: conditions for informed choice and enhanced service quality
Part of Journal of European Social Policy, p. 281-295, 2016
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Part of Social Policy & Administration, p. 787-804, 2016
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Recentralizing healthcare through evidence-based guidelines – striving for national equity in Sweden
Part of BMC Health Services Research, p. 509, 2014
- DOI for Recentralizing healthcare through evidence-based guidelines – striving for national equity in Sweden
- Download full text (pdf) of Recentralizing healthcare through evidence-based guidelines – striving for national equity in Sweden
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Part of Social Policy & Administration, p. 739-756, 2014
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Parental entrepreneurship in public education: a social force or a policy problem?
Part of Journal of education policy, p. 546-569, 2014
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Varför så få ideella aktörer inom äldreomsorgen?
Part of Välfärdsinsatser på religiös grund, Artos & Norma Bokförlag, 2014
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Sweden: Continued Marketization within a Universalist System
Part of Health Care Systems in Europe under Austerity, p. 9-30, Palgrave Macmillan, 2013
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Part of Journal of European Social Policy, p. 192-209, 2013
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Citizenship, choice and social equality in welfare services
Part of The political role of corporate citizens, p. 166, Palgrave Macmillan, 2013
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Kundvalsmodeller i äldreomsorgen: kan de äldre välja?
Part of När förvaltning blir business:, p. 57-75, Linköping University Electronic Press, 2013
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Conflict and Compliance in Swedish Health Care Governance: Soft Law in the ‘Shadow of Hierarchy’
Part of Scandinavian Political Studies, p. 48-70, 2012
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Privatization of social services: Quality differences in Swedish elderly care
Part of Social Science and Medicine, p. 560-567, 2011
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Regionalisation Nordic Style: Will Regions in Sweden Threaten Local Democracy?
Part of Local Government Studies, p. 43-74, 2010
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EU and Single Market pressures on Nordic health care systems
Part of Nordic Health Care Systems, Open University Press, 2009
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Mellan folkhem och Europa. Svensk politik i brytningstid
Liber, 2008
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Sweden: Markets within Politics
Part of Public and private Social Policy: Health and Pension Politics in a New Era, Palgrave Macmillian, 2008
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Vem styr vården? Reformer och politisk styrning inom svensk sjukvård
SNS, 2007
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Effects of decentralization and recentralization on political dimensions of health systems
Part of Decentralization in health care, p. 120-140, McGraw-Hill, 2007
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Part of International Social Security Review, 2006
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Part of Socialvetenskaplig Tidskrift, p. 169-99, 2005
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Mot en europeisk sjukvårdspolitik?:
Part of EU, välfärden och skatterna, Santérus, 2004
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The Choice Revolution: Privatization of Swedish Social Services in the 1990s
Part of Social Policy & Administration, p. 171-193, 2004
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Defeat at Home? Issue Ownership and Social Democratic Support in Scandinavia
Part of Government and Opposition, p. 587-613, 2004
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Agora, Stockholm, 2004
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Globalisering och fackligt samarbete inom svensk metallindustri
Part of Fackliga strategier för att möta globalisering och regionalisering inom metallindustrin. En jämförande studie av fyra nordiska länder., Stockholm: Arbetslivsinstitutet, 2003
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Ideas and Policy Convergence: Health Care Reforms in the Netherlands and Sweden in the 1990s
2002
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Välfärdsstatens nya ansikte: Demokrati och marknadsstyrning inom den offentliga sektorn
Agora, Stockholm, 2000
Recent publications
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Part of BMC Health Services Research, 2026
- DOI for Why are voluntary health insurance holders willing to pay tax towards public healthcare?: A qualitative study from Sweden
- Download full text (pdf) of Why are voluntary health insurance holders willing to pay tax towards public healthcare?: A qualitative study from Sweden
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How Private Health Insurance Shapes Perceptions of Public Healthcare in Sweden
Part of International Journal of Health Planning and Management, p. 1048-1057, 2025
- DOI for How Private Health Insurance Shapes Perceptions of Public Healthcare in Sweden
- Download full text (pdf) of How Private Health Insurance Shapes Perceptions of Public Healthcare in Sweden
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Health policy in Sweden: Striving for equity and efficiency
Part of Research Handbook on Health Care Policy, p. 553-568, Edward Elgar Publishing, 2024
-
Have the Welfare Professions Lost Autonomy?: A Comparative Study of Doctors and Teachers
Part of Journal of Social Policy, p. 64-85, 2024
- DOI for Have the Welfare Professions Lost Autonomy?: A Comparative Study of Doctors and Teachers
- Download full text (pdf) of Have the Welfare Professions Lost Autonomy?: A Comparative Study of Doctors and Teachers
-
Contracting out welfare services: how are private contractors held accountable?
Part of Public Management Review, p. 233-254, 2022
- DOI for Contracting out welfare services: how are private contractors held accountable?
- Download full text (pdf) of Contracting out welfare services: how are private contractors held accountable?
All publications
Articles in journal
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Part of BMC Health Services Research, 2026
- DOI for Why are voluntary health insurance holders willing to pay tax towards public healthcare?: A qualitative study from Sweden
- Download full text (pdf) of Why are voluntary health insurance holders willing to pay tax towards public healthcare?: A qualitative study from Sweden
-
How Private Health Insurance Shapes Perceptions of Public Healthcare in Sweden
Part of International Journal of Health Planning and Management, p. 1048-1057, 2025
- DOI for How Private Health Insurance Shapes Perceptions of Public Healthcare in Sweden
- Download full text (pdf) of How Private Health Insurance Shapes Perceptions of Public Healthcare in Sweden
-
Have the Welfare Professions Lost Autonomy?: A Comparative Study of Doctors and Teachers
Part of Journal of Social Policy, p. 64-85, 2024
- DOI for Have the Welfare Professions Lost Autonomy?: A Comparative Study of Doctors and Teachers
- Download full text (pdf) of Have the Welfare Professions Lost Autonomy?: A Comparative Study of Doctors and Teachers
-
Contracting out welfare services: how are private contractors held accountable?
Part of Public Management Review, p. 233-254, 2022
- DOI for Contracting out welfare services: how are private contractors held accountable?
- Download full text (pdf) of Contracting out welfare services: how are private contractors held accountable?
-
Part of Policy & Society, p. 247-259, 2022
- DOI for Covid (In)equalities: labor market protection, health, and residential care in Germany, Sweden, and the UK
- Download full text (pdf) of Covid (In)equalities: labor market protection, health, and residential care in Germany, Sweden, and the UK
-
Part of Health Economics, Policy and Law, p. 380-397, 2022
- DOI for Does voluntary health insurance reduce the use of and the willingness to finance public health care in Sweden?
- Download full text (pdf) of Does voluntary health insurance reduce the use of and the willingness to finance public health care in Sweden?
-
Nordic welfare states-still standing or changed by the COVID-19 crisis?
Part of Social Policy & Administration, p. 295-311, 2021
-
Preserving social equity in marketized primary care: strategies in Sweden
Part of Health Economics, Policy and Law, p. 216-231, 2021
- DOI for Preserving social equity in marketized primary care: strategies in Sweden
- Download full text (pdf) of Preserving social equity in marketized primary care: strategies in Sweden
-
Universalism in Welfare Policy: The Swedish Case beyond 1990
Part of Social Inclusion, p. 114-123, 2020
- DOI for Universalism in Welfare Policy: The Swedish Case beyond 1990
- Download full text (pdf) of Universalism in Welfare Policy: The Swedish Case beyond 1990
-
Health insurance for the healthy?: Voluntary health insurance in Sweden
Part of Health Policy, p. 737-746, 2019
-
Small is beautiful?: Explaining resident satisfaction in Swedish nursing home care
Part of BMC Health Services Research, 2019
- DOI for Small is beautiful?: Explaining resident satisfaction in Swedish nursing home care
- Download full text (pdf) of Small is beautiful?: Explaining resident satisfaction in Swedish nursing home care
-
Why No Nonprofits?: State, Market, and the Strive for Universalism in Swedish Elder Care
Part of Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly, p. 513-531, 2019
-
Negotiated compliance at the street level: Personalizing immunization in England, Israel and Sweden
Part of Public Administration, p. 195-209, 2019
-
Market-orienting reforms in rural health care in Sweden: how can equity in access be preserved?
Part of International Journal for Equity in Health, 2018
- DOI for Market-orienting reforms in rural health care in Sweden: how can equity in access be preserved?
- Download full text (pdf) of Market-orienting reforms in rural health care in Sweden: how can equity in access be preserved?
-
Risk selection in primary care: a cross-sectional fixed effect analysis of Swedish individual data
Part of BMJ Open, 2018
- DOI for Risk selection in primary care: a cross-sectional fixed effect analysis of Swedish individual data
- Download full text (pdf) of Risk selection in primary care: a cross-sectional fixed effect analysis of Swedish individual data
-
Professionalized through audit?: Care workers and the new audit regime in Sweden
Part of Social Policy & Administration, p. 631-645, 2018
-
Privatization of social care delivery: how can contracts be specified?
Part of Public Management Review, p. 1643-1662, 2018
-
Part of BMC Health Services Research, 2017
- DOI for Do public nursing home care providers deliver higher quality than private providers?: Evidence from Sweden
- Download full text (pdf) of Do public nursing home care providers deliver higher quality than private providers?: Evidence from Sweden
-
Free establishment of primary health care providers: effects on geographical equity
Part of BMC Health Services Research, 2016
- DOI for Free establishment of primary health care providers: effects on geographical equity
- Download full text (pdf) of Free establishment of primary health care providers: effects on geographical equity
-
User choice in Swedish eldercare: conditions for informed choice and enhanced service quality
Part of Journal of European Social Policy, p. 281-295, 2016
-
Part of Social Policy & Administration, p. 787-804, 2016
-
Recentralizing healthcare through evidence-based guidelines – striving for national equity in Sweden
Part of BMC Health Services Research, p. 509, 2014
- DOI for Recentralizing healthcare through evidence-based guidelines – striving for national equity in Sweden
- Download full text (pdf) of Recentralizing healthcare through evidence-based guidelines – striving for national equity in Sweden
-
Part of Social Policy & Administration, p. 739-756, 2014
-
Parental entrepreneurship in public education: a social force or a policy problem?
Part of Journal of education policy, p. 546-569, 2014
-
Part of Journal of European Social Policy, p. 192-209, 2013
-
Conflict and Compliance in Swedish Health Care Governance: Soft Law in the ‘Shadow of Hierarchy’
Part of Scandinavian Political Studies, p. 48-70, 2012
-
Privatization of social services: Quality differences in Swedish elderly care
Part of Social Science and Medicine, p. 560-567, 2011
-
Regionalisation Nordic Style: Will Regions in Sweden Threaten Local Democracy?
Part of Local Government Studies, p. 43-74, 2010
-
Part of Socialvetenskaplig Tidskrift, p. 169-99, 2005
-
The Choice Revolution: Privatization of Swedish Social Services in the 1990s
Part of Social Policy & Administration, p. 171-193, 2004
-
Defeat at Home? Issue Ownership and Social Democratic Support in Scandinavia
Part of Government and Opposition, p. 587-613, 2004
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Balancing Ideological Committment and Political Reality for Local Job Creation - A Swedish Dilemma
Part of Transfer: European Review of Labour and Research, 1998
Books
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Välfärdsstatens nya ansikte: Demokrati och marknadsstyrning inom den offentliga sektorn
Agora, Stockholm, 2000
Chapters in book
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Health policy in Sweden: Striving for equity and efficiency
Part of Research Handbook on Health Care Policy, p. 553-568, Edward Elgar Publishing, 2024
-
Part of Health Politics in Europe, p. 164-204, Oxford University Press, 2021
-
Varför så få ideella aktörer inom äldreomsorgen?
Part of Välfärdsinsatser på religiös grund, Artos & Norma Bokförlag, 2014
-
Sweden: Continued Marketization within a Universalist System
Part of Health Care Systems in Europe under Austerity, p. 9-30, Palgrave Macmillan, 2013
-
Citizenship, choice and social equality in welfare services
Part of The political role of corporate citizens, p. 166, Palgrave Macmillan, 2013
-
Kundvalsmodeller i äldreomsorgen: kan de äldre välja?
Part of När förvaltning blir business:, p. 57-75, Linköping University Electronic Press, 2013
-
EU and Single Market pressures on Nordic health care systems
Part of Nordic Health Care Systems, Open University Press, 2009
-
Sweden: Markets within Politics
Part of Public and private social policy, Palgrave Macmillan, 2008
-
Sweden: Markets within Politics
Part of Public and private Social Policy: Health and Pension Politics in a New Era, Palgrave Macmillian, 2008
-
Effects of decentralization and recentralization on political dimensions of health systems
Part of Decentralization in health care, p. 120-140, McGraw-Hill, 2007
-
Mot en europeisk sjukvårdspolitik?:
Part of EU, välfärden och skatterna, Santérus, 2004
-
Globalisering och fackligt samarbete inom svensk metallindustri
Part of Fackliga strategier för att möta globalisering och regionalisering inom metallindustrin. En jämförande studie av fyra nordiska länder., Stockholm: Arbetslivsinstitutet, 2003
Collections (editor)
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Mellan folkhem och Europa. Svensk politik i brytningstid
Liber, 2008
-
Vem styr vården? Reformer och politisk styrning inom svensk sjukvård
SNS, 2007
-
Vem styr vården? Reformer och politisk styrning inom svensk sjukvård
SNS, 2007
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Agora, Stockholm, 2004
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Arbetslivsinstitutet, Stockholm, 2003
Manuscripts (preprints)
Monograph doctoral thesis
Reports
Other
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Äldreomsorgens utveckling 1993-2009. Arbetsrapport 2010:1
2010
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Analysis of contracts in Swedish elder care: can quality aspects be monitored? Arbetsrapport 2010:2
2010
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Part of International Social Security Review, 2006