This paper explores and analyses the activities of Swedish organised crisis volunteers during the COVID-19 pandemic. Based on a questionnaire and interviews, it sets out to answer two research questions on what characterised organised volunteerism during the pandemic, how organised volunteers experienced cooperation with local public actors, and how they viewed political steering. The paper contributes to a growing literature on the role of volunteers and links that role to views on political steering, something that is rarely done in disaster research. Sweden is a useful case study because of how COVID-19 was managed, as well as because there are organised crisis volunteers and a debate is occurring on how the national system is steered. The paper shows how organised volunteers adapted to changing needs and adopted new roles, that experiences of cooperation with local authorities varied, and that calls were made for a stronger national leadership and for more explicit central political steering.

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组织危机志愿者、COVID-19 以及瑞典危机管理的政治指导

本文探讨并分析了瑞典有组织的危机志愿者在 COVID-19 大流行期间的活动。基于问卷和访谈，它旨在回答两个研究问题：大流行期间有组织的志愿服务的特征是什么，有组织的志愿者如何体验与当地公共行为者的合作，以及他们如何看待政治指导。这篇论文为越来越多关于志愿者作用的文献做出了贡献，并将这一作用与政治指导的观点联系起来，这在灾害研究中很少见。瑞典是一个有用的案例研究，因为它是如何管理 COVID-19 的，也因为有组织化的危机志愿者，并且正在就如何引导国家系统进行辩论。该文件展示了有组织的志愿者如何适应不断变化的需求并扮演新的角色，与地方当局合作的经验各不相同，并呼吁加强国家领导和更明确的中央政治指导。