Service user involvement’ is a widespread and well-known phenomenon within welfare policy and practice in Western countries and is usually perceived as a way of improving welfare services to better aid service users in managing their predicaments. However, the presented ethnographical study of service user involvement within a Swedish psychiatry organization shows that user involvement initiati...

This research project was supported by Vetenskapsradet, Grant 439-2014-38, PI: Ellen Lust, University of Gotneburg, Sweden; Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation to Academy Fellow Staffan I. Lindberg, 2018.0144, V-Dem Institute, Gothenburg, 2018-01614, Anna Luhrmann, Uni- versity Sweden.

on the basis of discourse grammar (dg), this study investigates the expression of  yæ'ni in persian. the term was originally borrowed from arabic and has undergone the process of grammaticalization. it exhibits different pragmatic functions to characterize changes involved in the evolution of this discourse marker. the study suggests that grammaticalization of yæ'ni should be analyzed...

This article examines Russian human service non-profit organisations (NPOs) to investigate the nature of civil society in a managed democracy. Specifically the focus is on emerging vertical ties between NPOs and ruling and governing elites. Drawing on qualitative data collected from health and education NPOs in three industrial regions, we find that in establishing such vertical ties the role o...