Politik som ett osakligt spel eller som oenighet i sak?

Ledande socialdemokraters och moderaters reflektioner om de båda partiernas politik och ideologi samt om det svenska partisystemet

Abstract

Politics as an Unobjective Game or as Objective Disagreement? Leading Politicians from The Social Democratic Party and The Moderate Party Discuss the Politics and Ideology of the Two Parties and the Swedish Party System

This is a study of the empirical presence of two opposite ideal types for political behavior: Politics as an Unobjective Game and Politics as Objective Disagreement. Politics as an Unobjective Game is defined by aspects such as not answering questions, not telling the truth, distorting facts, ignoring complexities, backbiting and not admitting mistakes. Politics as Objective Disagreement is quite the opposite and focuses on disagreements that are real. To examine the existence of the different aspects of the two ideal types eight leading politicians from The Social Democratic Party and The Moderate Party were asked to give their view on their ideology and politics. They think that there is a greater consensus nowadays on what the scope and tasks should be for the welfare state, but they also see political and ideological differences between them regarding taxes and privatization. Their reflections are more in line with the aspects of one of the two ideal types: Politics as Objective Disagreement.