This study investigates the interaction between civil servants and politicians in a planning committee in a Swedish county council. As the committees are venues for preparation of future decision-making, civil servants and others are invited to inform and report to the politicians on different topics. The aim is to explore this local interaction process based on an analysis of requests and responses. It is shown that the communication between civil servants and politicians is pervaded by sociability in the form of conversational routines. The article aims to recognize this sociability as an intrinsic part of knowledge coproduction processes. Civil servants and politicians negotiate different types of professional and common knowledge through routines that dislocate time, responsibility, roles, and protocol order. These lubricants – important but often circumvented in studies of policy-making – are explored as instances of conversational coproduction.

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“我会调查的！” 对话式合作生产中的润滑剂

本研究调查了瑞典县议会规划委员会中公务员和政治家之间的互动。由于委员会是准备未来决策的场所，因此邀请公务员和其他人员就不同主题向政治家通报和报告。目的是基于对请求和响应的分析来探索这种本地交互过程。结果表明，公务员和政治家之间的交流以对话惯例的形式普遍存在。本文旨在将这种社交性视为知识共同生产过程的内在组成部分。公务员和政治家通过使时间、责任、角色和礼节顺序错位的惯例来协商不同类型的专业知识和常识。