The educational reforms that encompassed school choice, vouchers, and for-profit private schools in Sweden during the 1990s transformed the public comprehensive school system through a process of marketization. The focus of this study is Sweden's largest urban upper secondary school market, the Stockholm region, following these reforms for nearly 30 years. (pdf)

Skolvalet har inte minskat sambandet mellan var elever bor och vilka skolor de går i. Samtidigt har uppdelningen mellan elever med olika socioekonomisk bakgrund och betyg ökat under de senaste tre decennierna. Det visar en studie av Stockholmsregionens gymnasiemarknad från Göteborgs och Uppsala universitet. 

The aim of this paper is to explore differences in how civil servants in Sweden organize and justify their policies towards families who do not make a school choice. We draw on theories about competition as a social construction as well as different notions of justice in education. We present descriptive statistics from a large-scale…

En ny nationell kartläggning visar hur skolvalets regler och riktlinjer skiljer sig åt mellan de svenska kommunerna. Även bland de kommuner som har obligatoriskt skolval finns tydliga skillnader i hur man hanterar de föräldrar som inte gjort ett aktivt val.

Drawing on notions of social capital, insider knowledge embedded in “the grapevine”, and the “labor of choice”, this study examines interpretive assistance in the context of families’ K-12 school decisions. (pdf).

n this paper, we shed light on the mundane performance of market-logics in public educational settings by focusing on municipality websites in Skåne County, Sweden, that inform parents about local school choice policies and procedures. (pdf)