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Att mäta en världsbild

Karlsson, Christoffer LU and Sandbacka, Henrik LU (2018) FKVA22 20172
Department of Political Science
Abstract
Our paper starts with a reflection on how the classic left and right-wing scale has become less relevant in modern politics. Instead, we argue that completely new divisions in society are being formed. Examples are issues of globalization, immigration and identity. These are questions often associated with the other axis of the political scale - conservative or progressive. To examine this in practice, we conducted a survey on swedish youth politicians - specifically on how they viewed international interventions. The 216 respondents got to position themselves on the political spectrum. We then compared how the results differed across the scale. Our results show that if you divide them by progressive and conversative, their views on... (More)
Our paper starts with a reflection on how the classic left and right-wing scale has become less relevant in modern politics. Instead, we argue that completely new divisions in society are being formed. Examples are issues of globalization, immigration and identity. These are questions often associated with the other axis of the political scale - conservative or progressive. To examine this in practice, we conducted a survey on swedish youth politicians - specifically on how they viewed international interventions. The 216 respondents got to position themselves on the political spectrum. We then compared how the results differed across the scale. Our results show that if you divide them by progressive and conversative, their views on real-life interventions such as Afghanistan, Iraq and Libya will differ wildly on a case by case basis. It is on the other hand not possible to establish a general sentiment on interventions in any of the groups. This varies based on the country and conflict in question - something our inclusion of fictitious examples also supports. This reconnects with the original reflection about new divisions beyond left-wing and right-wing. We consider this an interesting development in modern politics well worth noticing. Specifically because the tendency can be found within groups of future politicians. (Less)
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author
Karlsson, Christoffer LU and Sandbacka, Henrik LU
supervisor
organization
course
FKVA22 20172
year
type
L1 - 1st term paper (old degree order)
subject
keywords
R2P, Ideology, Interventions, GAL-TAN, Progressive, Conservative
language
Swedish
id
8931294
date added to LUP
2018-05-23 15:20:23
date last changed
2018-05-23 15:20:23
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  abstract     = {{Our paper starts with a reflection on how the classic left and right-wing scale has become less relevant in modern politics. Instead, we argue that completely new divisions in society are being formed. Examples are issues of globalization, immigration and identity. These are questions often associated with the other axis of the political scale - conservative or progressive. To examine this in practice, we conducted a survey on swedish youth politicians - specifically on how they viewed international interventions. The 216 respondents got to position themselves on the political spectrum. We then compared how the results differed across the scale. Our results show that if you divide them by progressive and conversative, their views on real-life interventions such as Afghanistan, Iraq and Libya will differ wildly on a case by case basis. It is on the other hand not possible to establish a general sentiment on interventions in any of the groups. This varies based on the country and conflict in question - something our inclusion of fictitious examples also supports. This reconnects with the original reflection about new divisions beyond left-wing and right-wing. We consider this an interesting development in modern politics well worth noticing. Specifically because the tendency can be found within groups of future politicians.}},
  author       = {{Karlsson, Christoffer and Sandbacka, Henrik}},
  language     = {{swe}},
  note         = {{Student Paper}},
  title        = {{Att mäta en världsbild}},
  year         = {{2018}},
}