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  1. Moving Beyond New Public Management: How Business Type‐Management Is Embedded in the Swedish State Through Institutional Hooks

    Article • Public Administration, September 2025, Wiley

    Professor Shirin Ahlbäck Öberg

  2. The Missing Guardrails of Academic Freedom in Sweden

    Article • European Review, May 2025, Cambridge University Press

    Professor Shirin Ahlbäck Öberg

  3. Governing a Dual Executive – Agents and Stewards in the Swedish Management Regime

    Article • Scandinavian Journal of Public Administration, May 2025, University of Gothenburg

    Professor Shirin Ahlbäck Öberg

  4. The decollegialization of higher education institutions in Sweden

    Article • Nordic Journal of Studies in Educational Policy, March 2023, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Shirin Ahlbäck Öberg

  5. Managerialism and the Military: Consequences for the Swedish Armed Forces

    Article • Armed Forces & Society, July 2021, SAGE Publications

    Professor Shirin Ahlbäck Öberg

  6. Agency control or autonomy? Government steering of Swedish government agencies 2003–2017

    Article • International Public Management Journal, August 2020, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Shirin Ahlbäck Öberg

  7. Professionalism and organizational performance in the wake of new managerialism

    Article • European Political Science Review, December 2014, Cambridge University Press

    Professor Shirin Ahlbäck Öberg

  8. Book Reviews

    Article • Public Integrity, March 2014, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Shirin Ahlbäck Öberg

  9. The Influence of National Parliaments over Domestic European Union Policies

    Article • Scandinavian Political Studies, December 2009, Wiley

    Professor Shirin Ahlbäck Öberg