Voices of the Governed

Abstract

I set out to study all the way through the remade Swedish pension system, which in my conceptualization meant including the governed subjects into the analysis. Such an approach entails investigating the impact of the policy on the everyday lives of people and an attempt at examining the ways in which the policy might bare effect on people’s attitude and behavior (Holmes 2000; Però 2011; Shore and Wright 2011). I collected the voices of “ordinary citizens” and their views, feelings, and attitudes toward the remade national pension system.