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Röda drömmar, blå ramar: En diskursteoretisk analys av de svenska Socialdemokraternas partiprogram och budgetar
Karlstad University, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences (starting 2013), Department of Political, Historical, Religious and Cultural Studies (from 2013).
2025 (Swedish)Independent thesis Basic level (degree of Bachelor), 10 credits / 15 HE creditsStudent thesisAlternative title
Red dreams, blue frames : A discourse-theory based analysis of the Swedish Social Democrats’ party programs and budget proposals (English)
Abstract [en]

In a time of neoliberal discursive hegemony, which previous research has related to depoliticization of economic questions, rising of far right-movements, ever-increasing commodification of nature and human relations, negative economic outcomes and an inability to tackle rising inequality and climate issues, a discourse theory based analysis was conducted to investigate whether the Swedish Social Democrats can be understood to reproduce neoliberal discourse regarding economic issues, as some of their European counterparts have done since the financial crisis. Aside from the main purpose of examining whether neoliberal discourse reproduction was present, the study also examines whether discursive shifts have taken place from 2013 to 2024 and tries to elucidate how a narrow understanding of economic issues, shaped by neoliberal discourse, constrains possibilities for other understandings, and contributes to a depoliticization of economic questions. Using a thematic-analysis method and analysing the material through a discourse theoretic lens, which is resting on work by Laclau and Mouffe, the study concludes that, apart from a leftward turn in the articulation of the last party program, the Swedish Social Democrats reproduce a hybrid discourse with strong neoliberal influences. While expressing socialistic goals in party programs, suggested reforms in budget proposals are defensive and indicative of a narrow corridor provided by neoliberal hegemony. The results are theorized to be a limiting sign for any form realistic electorate opposition to a, always contextually bound and sometimes incoherent, neoliberal status quo. 

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2025. , p. 48
Keywords [sv]
Nyliberalism, Diskursanalys, Socialdemokraterna, Socialdemokrati
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Social Sciences Political Science
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URN: urn:nbn:se:kau:diva-102901OAI: oai:DiVA.org:kau-102901DiVA, id: diva2:1933200
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Political Science
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Political Science (180 ECTS credits)
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Available from: 2025-02-04 Created: 2025-01-30 Last updated: 2025-02-04Bibliographically approved

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