{"id":30206,"date":"2025-05-10T18:06:50","date_gmt":"2025-05-10T16:06:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ekid.se\/?p=30206"},"modified":"2025-05-16T18:07:11","modified_gmt":"2025-05-16T16:07:11","slug":"demokratins-vaktare","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ekid.se\/?p=30206","title":{"rendered":"Demokratins v\u00e4ktare"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Det \u00e4r snart 30 \u00e5r sedan Lennart Lundqvist skrev boken Demokratins v\u00e4ktare i f\u00f6rsta utg\u00e5van f\u00f6r studentlitteratur. Det har kommit n\u00e5gra uppdaterade upplagor sedan dess. Lennart var n\u00e4r boken skrevs professor i stadsvetenskap vid Lunds universitet. Boken diskuterar \u00e4mbetspersonernas roll i den politiska demokratin och sl\u00e5r ett viktigt slag f\u00f6r uppgiften att v\u00e4rna demokratin. Redan p\u00e5 1990-talet diskuterades demokratins kris och d\u00e5 s\u00e4rskilt i relation till ekonomifieringen av den offentliga f\u00f6rvaltningen. Det \u00e4r inte fel att vara sparsam med resurser men problemet \u00e4r framf\u00f6r allt att den offentliga sektorns huvuduppgifter l\u00e4tt gl\u00f6ms bort om ekonomin blir allt f\u00f6r dominerande. Tj\u00e4nstepersonerna \u00e4r b\u00e5de demokratins tj\u00e4nare och v\u00e4ktare. De ska utf\u00f6ra den representativa demokratins beslut men samtidigt ansvara f\u00f6r att v\u00e5rt offentliga etos \u00e4r v\u00e4gledande. Tj\u00e4nstepersonen har flera m\u00f6jligheter att uppm\u00e4rksamma felaktigheter b\u00e5de utifr\u00e5n lagstiftning och demokratisk etik men blir allt mindre ben\u00e4gen att g\u00f6ra detta. Utvecklingen sedan boken skrevs har f\u00f6rst\u00e4rkt de negativa tendenserna f\u00f6r demokratin. Det \u00e4r en viktig bok som b\u00f6r l\u00e4sas av alla inom offentlig f\u00f6rvaltning och politik. Delvis \u00e4r det ganska teoretiskt forskningsvokabul\u00e4r men n\u00e4r man v\u00e4l tagit sig igenom detta kommer m\u00e5nga viktiga insikter. Boken k\u00f6ptes p\u00e5 Bokus v\u00e5ren 2025 och l\u00e4stes under resa till Baltikum i b\u00f6rjan av maj. Det blir betyg 3 (av 5).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"443\" height=\"590\" src=\"https:\/\/ekid.se\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/0CF7AEF4-FE31-4C8E-8C83-4827CE4F5CA0-443x590.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-30207\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ekid.se\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/0CF7AEF4-FE31-4C8E-8C83-4827CE4F5CA0-443x590.jpeg 443w, https:\/\/ekid.se\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/0CF7AEF4-FE31-4C8E-8C83-4827CE4F5CA0-768x1024.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/ekid.se\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/0CF7AEF4-FE31-4C8E-8C83-4827CE4F5CA0-1152x1536.jpeg 1152w, https:\/\/ekid.se\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/0CF7AEF4-FE31-4C8E-8C83-4827CE4F5CA0-1536x2048.jpeg 1536w, https:\/\/ekid.se\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/0CF7AEF4-FE31-4C8E-8C83-4827CE4F5CA0-scaled.jpeg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 443px) 100vw, 443px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Det \u00e4r snart 30 \u00e5r sedan Lennart Lundqvist skrev boken Demokratins v\u00e4ktare i f\u00f6rsta utg\u00e5van f\u00f6r studentlitteratur. Det har kommit [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":30207,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30206","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bocker-jag-last"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ekid.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30206","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ekid.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ekid.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ekid.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ekid.se\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=30206"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ekid.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30206\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30208,"href":"https:\/\/ekid.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30206\/revisions\/30208"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ekid.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/30207"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ekid.se\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30206"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ekid.se\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30206"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ekid.se\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30206"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}