DAGS ATT VÄNDA KAPPAN EFTER VINDEN? - En kvalitativ fallstudie av den svenska regeringens beslut att införa gräns- och ID-kontroller
(2018) STVK02 20172Department of Political Science
- Abstract
- In 2015 Sweden went from being the country who brought in the most asylum seekers per capita in all the EU, to introduce border and ID-checks and EU: s minimum rules. This was a paradigm shift that very few could have expected, but how can we understand it? To explore this issue, I analyzed the Swedish government parties’ manifestos and party platforms from a summative content analysis and compared these to the arguments that were presented at the press conference were these decisions were introduced by the Swedish prime minister and the vice-prime minister. My conclusion is that the Green party was office-seeking, while the Social democrats were mainly vote-seeking even though this conclusion wasn’t as obvious. These conclusions are... (More)
- In 2015 Sweden went from being the country who brought in the most asylum seekers per capita in all the EU, to introduce border and ID-checks and EU: s minimum rules. This was a paradigm shift that very few could have expected, but how can we understand it? To explore this issue, I analyzed the Swedish government parties’ manifestos and party platforms from a summative content analysis and compared these to the arguments that were presented at the press conference were these decisions were introduced by the Swedish prime minister and the vice-prime minister. My conclusion is that the Green party was office-seeking, while the Social democrats were mainly vote-seeking even though this conclusion wasn’t as obvious. These conclusions are supplemented with theories about client politics and the anti-populist norm of the legislators, the GAL-TAN scale´s rising importance and its consequences, left wing voters’ views on immigration as an explanatory factor and statistics about Swedish voters’ opinions and most their prominent issues. (Less)
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- author
- Eriksson, Oscar LU
- supervisor
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- Hanna Bäck LU
- organization
- course
- STVK02 20172
- year
- 2018
- type
- M2 - Bachelor Degree
- subject
- keywords
- Refugee crisis, manifesto, party platform, GAL – TAN, client politics, office-seeking, vote-seeking, policy-seeking
- language
- Swedish
- id
- 8931035
- date added to LUP
- 2018-08-24 09:11:30
- date last changed
- 2018-08-24 09:11:30
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