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DAGS ATT VÄNDA KAPPAN EFTER VINDEN? - En kvalitativ fallstudie av den svenska regeringens beslut att införa gräns- och ID-kontroller

Eriksson, Oscar LU (2018) STVK02 20172
Department 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
organization
course
STVK02 20172
year
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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  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 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.}},
  author       = {{Eriksson, Oscar}},
  language     = {{swe}},
  note         = {{Student Paper}},
  title        = {{DAGS ATT VÄNDA KAPPAN EFTER VINDEN? - En kvalitativ fallstudie av den svenska regeringens beslut att införa gräns- och ID-kontroller}},
  year         = {{2018}},
}