Moderaternas liberalkonservativa balansbr?da
En ideologianalys av Moderaternas ideologiska utveckling 1984?2022
The Swedish Moderate party has openly referred to themselves as a liberal-conservative party. This definition, however, leads to a possible ambiguity where the extent to which the party is conservative, and liberal is up for debate. Furthermore, this might allow for extensive changes within the party, while still using the same ideological mantra. This study employs a longitudinal ideological analysis of five official party documents published between 1984 and 2022 to analyse how the party has drifted between the two ideologies over the years. The analysis is done using three political areas: immigration, economy, and safety. This is done using a diagram tracking the party?s reality image?utopia?strategy according to ideal types of liberalism and conservatism. The findings of the study show that the party in general has drifted towards a more conservative ideology in later years, while 2007 represented the most liberal time. The change has not, however been uniform through all political areas, where the area of immigration excels as the area of most drastic changes. Second comes the area of safety, and third, with the least political change, is economy. This study aims to contribute to a deeper understanding of how ideological changes exist within the same liberal-conservative framework, and how that can change over time.?