This Bachelor’s thesis examines and describes the governmental cultural policy in Sweden. The relation between the state and the market in society is in focus. Earlier research is used to describe the development of cultural policy in Sweden after the world war two until today. Two governmental bills are examined and described, one from 1974 and one from 2009. The main issues are: What ideological content can be seen in the two bills? What ideological content can be seen in relation to the market? What points of ideological similarity and difference appear in a comparison between the two bills? In general the conclusions from the analysis are that cultural policy in 1974 is formed around the word equality. The ideology in 2009 years bill is formulated in words of growth. In the comparison different patterns can be seen. An ideological development is clear that shows that neo-liberal market-related ideology is present 2009 but not in the bill from 1974. The method used in the Bachelor’s thesis is textual ideology analysis. A method/theory about ideology analysis created by the Swedish professor in history of ideas, Sven- Eric Liedman is used. / Program: Bibliotekarie

This essay is about Swedish government cultural policy.The premise is that cultural policy is a form of welfarepolicy. The welfare state has changed and this affects theconditions for the cultural policy. Welfare is funded andorganized in different parts of society, in three spheres thatcan be said to represent society as a whole. These spheresare the public sphere, the market and the civil society. Theaim is to analyze how the national cultural policy appearedin the 1970s, compared to how it appears today. Thetheoretical approach is that society is composed of threespheres, their development is described in the paper withKarl Polanyi's The great transformation. The welfare stateand the change of it is described by two of Jacobs Torfingswritings and by Bob Jessops two ideal types of welfarestates, The Keynesian Welfare National State and TheSchumpeterian Workfare Postnational Regime. The methodis to use the three spheres of society as an ideal type andmake an analysis of ideas in two cultural policy bills. Theresult of the analysis is that in the bill from 1974 the goalbecame a cultural policy that contributes to a more equalsociety and the market's influence on culture is consideredproblematic. In 2009 the market is considered rather assomething contributing to growth and development insociety. This development indicates a change of the welfarestate. / Program: Bibliotekarie

This master’s thesis analyzes how cultural policy was problematized in three governmental policy areas; culturalpolicy for the free sector, education policy and popular education policy, during the social democrat Ragnar Edenman’s time (1957-67) as minister of ecclesiasticalaffairs. Earlier research has examined the policy for the free sector, concerning artist’s economic problems. This thesisadds an analysis of the other fields of policy, which were reformed in the 1960’s by the same ministry. The purpose is twofold: first to examine if the two fields wereproblematized as a cultural policy. The conclusion is that popular education was part of what Edenman problematizedas a “wider cultural policy”. Education policy was not included in this field of reform, but not conceptually different from it. Secondly to examine what these threepolicies had in common as a problematization. This concept is combined with the concept of governmentality into ananalysis of how wider cultural policy was defined by two technologies, aesthetic education and environment. These elements are analyzed in programs for these fields of policy, their use of behavioral sciences and ideological programs after 1946. The conclusion is that the wider problematizationduring the early part of the period was part of a governmentality held together by a psychologically defined democratic subject. When cultural policy was defined as aseparate field of policy in the 1960’s, it lost contact with this governmentality’s focus on the citizen’s ethical behavior.Instead, its purpose was to fulfill goals of the citizen’s wellbeing in society. / Program: Bibliotekarie

This Master’s thesis has governmental cultural policy in focus and concludes a textual idea analysis of the governmental bill Time for culture. (Tid för kultur.) The aim of the study is to examine how the government is seeking legitimacy concerning the cultural policy. One of the starting points is that the society has changed over time in terms of for example increased globalization and multicultural and even the market adjustment is more evident. Also the economical basis in the society is different nowadays. These changes form challenges concerning the governmental cultural policy. The theoretical starting point for this thesis is based on a theory by cultural policy researcher Geir Vestheim. The theory claims that cultural policy is instrumental. The forms of instrumental culture policy are either qualitative, social, economic or democratic. The method used in the study is idea analysis. Ideal types based on a model by Vestheim are used to examine the different forms of instrumental culture policy and arguments in Time for culture. The study wants to explore which forms of arguments and instrumental cultural policy that can be seen in Time for culture. The result of this study shows that the different forms of instrumental cultural policy occur to varying extent in Time for culture. Most prominent are the economical arguments. Particularly when it comes to the cultural policy that concerns the role of the culture in the development of the society. One conclusion drawn is that the government is seeking legitimacy concerning the new cultural policy mainly throughout economical arguments.

This Bachelor's thesis examines and describes the ideas and ideological traits surrounding the public library within the governmental cultural policy. The Bachelor's thesis demonstrates how the public library – even though its relevance in the modern society has shifted over time – has maintained a connection to the governmental cultural policy and has therefore been shaped by the ideological changes in the political sphere as a whole. The main issues are: Which ideas concerning the public library's functions are expressed in the governmental cultural policy? Which ideological tendencies can be identified in the national cultural policy? Which ideas concerning the public library can be extracted through the found ideological tendencies? The method used in order to study the governmental bill is an ideology analysis based on a framework created by Dorte Skot-Hansen. The conceptual framework is used to represent three municipal cultural political rationales – the humanistic, the sociological and the instrumental – which in the ideal types are based on the ideological tendencies of the Scandinavian cultural policy during the latter half of the twentieth century. The analysis shows that the governmental cultural policy has maintained some of its traditional values but they seem to be inferior to the new economic liberal tendencies. However, within these results the expressed ideas regarding the public library deviates from the ideological tendencies and portray a traditional and enlightening institution instead of the expected market adjusted institution.