Barnkonventionens implementering i Lunds Kommun - en aktörsanalys

Sammanfattning: In 2002 the local council of Lund, Sweden, decides to implement the UN Convention of the Rights of the Child. A number of actors, such as the state, the civil society, the political society and the bureaucracy, participate in the political process with different authority and points of departure. This thesis studies the actors´ interactions from an inside perspective by applying concepts such as political power, democracy and implementation. The methodological departure is action research from within, a local NGO, the local board of Save the Children Sweden. The results of the study indicate that governance and steering of the implementation process at the communal level is weak. Political society has access to direct political power, bureaucracy has access to both direct and indirect political power, and civil society is granted participation without real political power. Participation and conversations proves to be important tools of the civil society work in the implementation process which in consequence broadens the narrow definition of democracy to encompass a communicative form of democracy. As civil society is not participating in any decision-making, it is neither participating democracy nor deliberative democracy.