This bachelor’s thesis aims to analyze articles from two different newspapers to identify the actors and discourses involved in Mellerud’s Cultural Strategy 2023-2027. As well as the actors’ different perceptions of reality and hegemony from a post-political perspective. Based on how the discourses and conflicts can be analyzed in terms of agonism, post-democracy and hegemony, the study will clarify the different actors and their perceptions of reality in the determination of the cultural strategy. The findings include how culture is used as a political symbol to polarize and differentiate between “us and them” in a post-political society.  Furthermore, the results of the study clarify the different actors and their perceptions of reality, based on how the daily press presented the discourses on democracy, culture and tone.