Miljöpartiet - ett parti i förändring
En komparativ textanalys av Miljöpartietspartiprogram mellan 1994 och 2005
Following changes in society and other influences, the ideology of political parties can evolveover time. For example, theories exist claiming that all parties in Sweden strive towards the"middle".A good example of a political party in Sweden which recently has gained entry toparliament is the Swedish Green Party (Miljöpartiet, MP).MP was initially influenced by a green ideology (ecologism) which started as a globalmovement stating that no other ideologies shared their concerns about the environment. Thegoal of the ideology was to, via an increased influence within the political system and throughsmall-scale production, increases both natural values and people's well being. By becomingelected into parliament it is plausible that the ideology of MP could have changed due to theinfluence of for example, the realities that parliamentary every day represent.The aim with this essay was to study the changes in MP's party program from the yearof 1994 and the most recent, to see if any changes have occurred related to MP's officialideology. The study was conducted using a comparative text analysis. Moreover, since thetraditional right/left-scale is relatively coarse, four different sets of scales have been used tospecify what "right" and "left" on the traditional scale actually means. By combining the foursets of scales it was concluded that changes have occurred to the ideology of MP.