Proppen har gått : En analys av diskursen kring Kultursamverkansmodellen

This essay aims to map the ideas behind the Swedish cultural reform called Kultursamverkansmodellen, and how the ideas are forming a discourse. Furthermore it examines the social praxis on the three levels that constitutes the model. The three levels are the state, the region and culture creators/civil society. This is a qualitative study based on primary and secondary sources collected on the three levels. The theoretical frame of reference is based on institutional theory, on Michel Foucault‟s lecture on The Discourse of Language, and on New Public Management. When it comes to distribution of the official funds there has been no actual change after the reform, according to our empirical data. There may have been a change in terms of language and work methods. Our data also shows that there is a cumulative view on the concept of culture as an instrument for other parts of the society or other political areas. The culture does not stand independently; it is given the right to exist through the cause of something else