Kulturell, administrativ eller funktionell region?
En analys av Region Skåne och Västra Götalandsregionen
CulturalAdministrative and functional regionsRegionalismRegion SkåneVästra GötalandsregionenRegional identity and identity of politics
The Swedish regions are new phenomena, from the start from the new regionalism which started in the 1980´s. The purpose of the thesis is to analyze Region Skåne and Västra Götalandsregionen to come to a conclusion which model of region they are and want to be by using theories of regional identity and identity of politics and see similarities and differences. My research question is: Which of cultural, administrative and functional region are Region Skåne and Västra Götaland striving to construct? The methods I have used are qualitative text- and content analysis to analyze the regions, by using theories about regional identity and identity of politics. Furthermore, I am using some statistic from SOM-institutet to analyze the regional identity in the regions. The result show that Region Skåne is constructing a cultural region, because of their strong regional identity and that the politicians are using identity of politics to combine the citizens. The citizens feel a strong fellowship and share a common history and culture. However Västra Götalandsregionen is an administrative region, there their regional identity is low and do not have a common history and culture. There the politicians? focus is on administrative things, as research and communication.