Paula Blomqvist
Professor docent vid Statsvetenskapliga institutionen; Forskare och lärare
- Telefon:
- 018-471 63 22
- Mobiltelefon:
- 070-223 97 67
- E-post:
- Paula.Blomqvist@statsvet.uu.se
- Besöksadress:
- Östra Ågatan 19
753 22 Uppsala - Postadress:
- Box 514
751 20 UPPSALA - Tillgänglig:
- Gamla torget 3, 4 tr
- Akademiska meriter:
- FD, Docent
Kort presentation
Min forskning handlar främst om svensk välfärdspolitik. Jag har inom detta område främst intresserat mig för de så kallade sociala tjänsterna, som sjukvård, skola och social omsorg, och hur de styrs politiskt.
Biografi
Ph.D. Columbia University 2002
Associate professor (docent). Uppsala University 2007
Full professor (professor). Uppsala University 2023

Publikationer
Urval av publikationer
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Have the Welfare Professions Lost Autonomy?: A Comparative Study of Doctors and Teachers
Ingår i Journal of Social Policy, s. 64-85, 2024
- DOI för Have the Welfare Professions Lost Autonomy?: A Comparative Study of Doctors and Teachers
- Ladda ner fulltext (pdf) av 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?
Ingår i Public Management Review, s. 233-254, 2022
- DOI för Contracting out welfare services: how are private contractors held accountable?
- Ladda ner fulltext (pdf) av Contracting out welfare services: how are private contractors held accountable?
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Ingår i Policy & Society, s. 247-259, 2022
- DOI för Covid (In)equalities: labor market protection, health, and residential care in Germany, Sweden, and the UK
- Ladda ner fulltext (pdf) av Covid (In)equalities: labor market protection, health, and residential care in Germany, Sweden, and the UK
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Ingår i Health Economics, Policy and Law, s. 380-397, 2022
- DOI för Does voluntary health insurance reduce the use of and the willingness to finance public health care in Sweden?
- Ladda ner fulltext (pdf) av 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?
Ingår i Social Policy & Administration, s. 295-311, 2021
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Preserving social equity in marketized primary care: strategies in Sweden
Ingår i Health Economics, Policy and Law, s. 216-231, 2021
- DOI för Preserving social equity in marketized primary care: strategies in Sweden
- Ladda ner fulltext (pdf) av Preserving social equity in marketized primary care: strategies in Sweden
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Ingår i Health Politics in Europe, s. 164-204, Oxford University Press, 2021
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Universalism in Welfare Policy: The Swedish Case beyond 1990
Ingår i Social Inclusion, s. 114-123, 2020
- DOI för Universalism in Welfare Policy: The Swedish Case beyond 1990
- Ladda ner fulltext (pdf) av Universalism in Welfare Policy: The Swedish Case beyond 1990
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Health insurance for the healthy?: Voluntary health insurance in Sweden
Ingår i Health Policy, s. 737-746, 2019
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Small is beautiful?: Explaining resident satisfaction in Swedish nursing home care
Ingår i BMC Health Services Research, 2019
- DOI för Small is beautiful?: Explaining resident satisfaction in Swedish nursing home care
- Ladda ner fulltext (pdf) av 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
Ingår i Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly, s. 513-531, 2019
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Negotiated compliance at the street level: Personalizing immunization in England, Israel and Sweden
Ingår i Public Administration, s. 195-209, 2019
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Market-orienting reforms in rural health care in Sweden: how can equity in access be preserved?
Ingår i International Journal for Equity in Health, 2018
- DOI för Market-orienting reforms in rural health care in Sweden: how can equity in access be preserved?
- Ladda ner fulltext (pdf) av 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
Ingår i BMJ Open, 2018
- DOI för Risk selection in primary care: a cross-sectional fixed effect analysis of Swedish individual data
- Ladda ner fulltext (pdf) av 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
Ingår i Social Policy & Administration, s. 631-645, 2018
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Privatization of social care delivery: how can contracts be specified?
Ingår i Public Management Review, s. 1643-1662, 2018
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Ingår i BMC Health Services Research, 2017
- DOI för Do public nursing home care providers deliver higher quality than private providers?: Evidence from Sweden
- Ladda ner fulltext (pdf) av 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
Ingår i BMC Health Services Research, 2016
- DOI för Free establishment of primary health care providers: effects on geographical equity
- Ladda ner fulltext (pdf) av 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
Ingår i Journal of European Social Policy, s. 281-295, 2016
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Ingår i Social Policy & Administration, s. 787-804, 2016
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Recentralizing healthcare through evidence-based guidelines – striving for national equity in Sweden
Ingår i BMC Health Services Research, s. 509, 2014
- DOI för Recentralizing healthcare through evidence-based guidelines – striving for national equity in Sweden
- Ladda ner fulltext (pdf) av Recentralizing healthcare through evidence-based guidelines – striving for national equity in Sweden
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Ingår i Social Policy & Administration, s. 739-756, 2014
-
Parental entrepreneurship in public education: a social force or a policy problem?
Ingår i Journal of education policy, s. 546-569, 2014
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Varför så få ideella aktörer inom äldreomsorgen?
Ingår i Välfärdsinsatser på religiös grund, Artos & Norma Bokförlag, 2014
-
Sweden: Continued Marketization within a Universalist System
Ingår i Health Care Systems in Europe under Austerity, s. 9-30, Palgrave Macmillan, 2013
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Ingår i Journal of European Social Policy, s. 192-209, 2013
-
Citizenship, choice and social equality in welfare services
Ingår i The political role of corporate citizens, s. 166, Palgrave Macmillan, 2013
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Kundvalsmodeller i äldreomsorgen: kan de äldre välja?
Ingår i När förvaltning blir business:, s. 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’
Ingår i Scandinavian Political Studies, s. 48-70, 2012
-
Privatization of social services: Quality differences in Swedish elderly care
Ingår i Social Science and Medicine, s. 560-567, 2011
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Regionalisation Nordic Style: Will Regions in Sweden Threaten Local Democracy?
Ingår i Local Government Studies, s. 43-74, 2010
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EU and Single Market pressures on Nordic health care systems
Ingår i 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
Ingår i Public and private Social Policy: Health and Pension Politics in a New Era, Palgrave Macmillian, 2008
-
Vem styr vården? Reformer och politisk styrning inom svensk sjukvård
SNS, 2007
-
Effects of decentralization and recentralization on political dimensions of health systems
Ingår i Decentralization in health care, s. 120-140, McGraw-Hill, 2007
-
Ingår i International Social Security Review, 2006
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Ingår i Socialvetenskaplig Tidskrift, s. 169-99, 2005
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Mot en europeisk sjukvårdspolitik?:
Ingår i EU, välfärden och skatterna, Santérus, 2004
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The Choice Revolution: Privatization of Swedish Social Services in the 1990s
Ingår i Social Policy & Administration, s. 171-193, 2004
-
Defeat at Home? Issue Ownership and Social Democratic Support in Scandinavia
Ingår i Government and Opposition, s. 587-613, 2004
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Agora, Stockholm, 2004
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Globalisering och fackligt samarbete inom svensk metallindustri
Ingår i 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
Senaste publikationer
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Ingår i BMC Health Services Research, 2026
- DOI för Why are voluntary health insurance holders willing to pay tax towards public healthcare?: A qualitative study from Sweden
- Ladda ner fulltext (pdf) av 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
Ingår i International Journal of Health Planning and Management, s. 1048-1057, 2025
- DOI för How Private Health Insurance Shapes Perceptions of Public Healthcare in Sweden
- Ladda ner fulltext (pdf) av How Private Health Insurance Shapes Perceptions of Public Healthcare in Sweden
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Health policy in Sweden: Striving for equity and efficiency
Ingår i Research Handbook on Health Care Policy, s. 553-568, Edward Elgar Publishing, 2024
-
Have the Welfare Professions Lost Autonomy?: A Comparative Study of Doctors and Teachers
Ingår i Journal of Social Policy, s. 64-85, 2024
- DOI för Have the Welfare Professions Lost Autonomy?: A Comparative Study of Doctors and Teachers
- Ladda ner fulltext (pdf) av Have the Welfare Professions Lost Autonomy?: A Comparative Study of Doctors and Teachers
-
Contracting out welfare services: how are private contractors held accountable?
Ingår i Public Management Review, s. 233-254, 2022
- DOI för Contracting out welfare services: how are private contractors held accountable?
- Ladda ner fulltext (pdf) av Contracting out welfare services: how are private contractors held accountable?
Alla publikationer
Artiklar i tidskrift
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Ingår i BMC Health Services Research, 2026
- DOI för Why are voluntary health insurance holders willing to pay tax towards public healthcare?: A qualitative study from Sweden
- Ladda ner fulltext (pdf) av 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
Ingår i International Journal of Health Planning and Management, s. 1048-1057, 2025
- DOI för How Private Health Insurance Shapes Perceptions of Public Healthcare in Sweden
- Ladda ner fulltext (pdf) av How Private Health Insurance Shapes Perceptions of Public Healthcare in Sweden
-
Have the Welfare Professions Lost Autonomy?: A Comparative Study of Doctors and Teachers
Ingår i Journal of Social Policy, s. 64-85, 2024
- DOI för Have the Welfare Professions Lost Autonomy?: A Comparative Study of Doctors and Teachers
- Ladda ner fulltext (pdf) av Have the Welfare Professions Lost Autonomy?: A Comparative Study of Doctors and Teachers
-
Contracting out welfare services: how are private contractors held accountable?
Ingår i Public Management Review, s. 233-254, 2022
- DOI för Contracting out welfare services: how are private contractors held accountable?
- Ladda ner fulltext (pdf) av Contracting out welfare services: how are private contractors held accountable?
-
Ingår i Policy & Society, s. 247-259, 2022
- DOI för Covid (In)equalities: labor market protection, health, and residential care in Germany, Sweden, and the UK
- Ladda ner fulltext (pdf) av Covid (In)equalities: labor market protection, health, and residential care in Germany, Sweden, and the UK
-
Ingår i Health Economics, Policy and Law, s. 380-397, 2022
- DOI för Does voluntary health insurance reduce the use of and the willingness to finance public health care in Sweden?
- Ladda ner fulltext (pdf) av 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?
Ingår i Social Policy & Administration, s. 295-311, 2021
-
Preserving social equity in marketized primary care: strategies in Sweden
Ingår i Health Economics, Policy and Law, s. 216-231, 2021
- DOI för Preserving social equity in marketized primary care: strategies in Sweden
- Ladda ner fulltext (pdf) av Preserving social equity in marketized primary care: strategies in Sweden
-
Universalism in Welfare Policy: The Swedish Case beyond 1990
Ingår i Social Inclusion, s. 114-123, 2020
- DOI för Universalism in Welfare Policy: The Swedish Case beyond 1990
- Ladda ner fulltext (pdf) av Universalism in Welfare Policy: The Swedish Case beyond 1990
-
Health insurance for the healthy?: Voluntary health insurance in Sweden
Ingår i Health Policy, s. 737-746, 2019
-
Small is beautiful?: Explaining resident satisfaction in Swedish nursing home care
Ingår i BMC Health Services Research, 2019
- DOI för Small is beautiful?: Explaining resident satisfaction in Swedish nursing home care
- Ladda ner fulltext (pdf) av 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
Ingår i Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly, s. 513-531, 2019
-
Negotiated compliance at the street level: Personalizing immunization in England, Israel and Sweden
Ingår i Public Administration, s. 195-209, 2019
-
Market-orienting reforms in rural health care in Sweden: how can equity in access be preserved?
Ingår i International Journal for Equity in Health, 2018
- DOI för Market-orienting reforms in rural health care in Sweden: how can equity in access be preserved?
- Ladda ner fulltext (pdf) av 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
Ingår i BMJ Open, 2018
- DOI för Risk selection in primary care: a cross-sectional fixed effect analysis of Swedish individual data
- Ladda ner fulltext (pdf) av 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
Ingår i Social Policy & Administration, s. 631-645, 2018
-
Privatization of social care delivery: how can contracts be specified?
Ingår i Public Management Review, s. 1643-1662, 2018
-
Ingår i BMC Health Services Research, 2017
- DOI för Do public nursing home care providers deliver higher quality than private providers?: Evidence from Sweden
- Ladda ner fulltext (pdf) av 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
Ingår i BMC Health Services Research, 2016
- DOI för Free establishment of primary health care providers: effects on geographical equity
- Ladda ner fulltext (pdf) av Free establishment of primary health care providers: effects on geographical equity
-
User choice in Swedish eldercare: conditions for informed choice and enhanced service quality
Ingår i Journal of European Social Policy, s. 281-295, 2016
-
Ingår i Social Policy & Administration, s. 787-804, 2016
-
Recentralizing healthcare through evidence-based guidelines – striving for national equity in Sweden
Ingår i BMC Health Services Research, s. 509, 2014
- DOI för Recentralizing healthcare through evidence-based guidelines – striving for national equity in Sweden
- Ladda ner fulltext (pdf) av Recentralizing healthcare through evidence-based guidelines – striving for national equity in Sweden
-
Ingår i Social Policy & Administration, s. 739-756, 2014
-
Parental entrepreneurship in public education: a social force or a policy problem?
Ingår i Journal of education policy, s. 546-569, 2014
-
Ingår i Journal of European Social Policy, s. 192-209, 2013
-
Conflict and Compliance in Swedish Health Care Governance: Soft Law in the ‘Shadow of Hierarchy’
Ingår i Scandinavian Political Studies, s. 48-70, 2012
-
Privatization of social services: Quality differences in Swedish elderly care
Ingår i Social Science and Medicine, s. 560-567, 2011
-
Regionalisation Nordic Style: Will Regions in Sweden Threaten Local Democracy?
Ingår i Local Government Studies, s. 43-74, 2010
-
Ingår i Socialvetenskaplig Tidskrift, s. 169-99, 2005
-
The Choice Revolution: Privatization of Swedish Social Services in the 1990s
Ingår i Social Policy & Administration, s. 171-193, 2004
-
Defeat at Home? Issue Ownership and Social Democratic Support in Scandinavia
Ingår i Government and Opposition, s. 587-613, 2004
-
Balancing Ideological Committment and Political Reality for Local Job Creation - A Swedish Dilemma
Ingår i Transfer: European Review of Labour and Research, 1998
Böcker
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Välfärdsstatens nya ansikte: Demokrati och marknadsstyrning inom den offentliga sektorn
Agora, Stockholm, 2000
Doktorsavhandlingar, monografi
Kapitel i böcker, delar av antologi
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Health policy in Sweden: Striving for equity and efficiency
Ingår i Research Handbook on Health Care Policy, s. 553-568, Edward Elgar Publishing, 2024
-
Ingår i Health Politics in Europe, s. 164-204, Oxford University Press, 2021
-
Varför så få ideella aktörer inom äldreomsorgen?
Ingår i Välfärdsinsatser på religiös grund, Artos & Norma Bokförlag, 2014
-
Sweden: Continued Marketization within a Universalist System
Ingår i Health Care Systems in Europe under Austerity, s. 9-30, Palgrave Macmillan, 2013
-
Citizenship, choice and social equality in welfare services
Ingår i The political role of corporate citizens, s. 166, Palgrave Macmillan, 2013
-
Kundvalsmodeller i äldreomsorgen: kan de äldre välja?
Ingår i När förvaltning blir business:, s. 57-75, Linköping University Electronic Press, 2013
-
EU and Single Market pressures on Nordic health care systems
Ingår i Nordic Health Care Systems, Open University Press, 2009
-
Sweden: Markets within Politics
Ingår i Public and private social policy, Palgrave Macmillan, 2008
-
Sweden: Markets within Politics
Ingår i 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
Ingår i Decentralization in health care, s. 120-140, McGraw-Hill, 2007
-
Mot en europeisk sjukvårdspolitik?:
Ingår i EU, välfärden och skatterna, Santérus, 2004
-
Globalisering och fackligt samarbete inom svensk metallindustri
Ingår i Fackliga strategier för att möta globalisering och regionalisering inom metallindustrin. En jämförande studie av fyra nordiska länder., Stockholm: Arbetslivsinstitutet, 2003
Manuskript (preprint)
Rapporter
Samlingsverk (redaktörskap)
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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
Övriga
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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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Ingår i International Social Security Review, 2006