The purpose of this study is to investigate how the eight largest political parties in Sweden have reacted to the social movement #Metoo. With theories regarding agenda setting and institutional change in mind, this study contributes with an approach on how political parties react to social movements and therefore how movements can gain political access. By using Josefina Erikson’s dynamic frame analysis to create analysis tools the study aims to investigate how the political parties have highlighted the movement through their description of the problem, cause of the problem, negative versus positive framing and suggestions to solve it. In addition to this, the analysis tools also include a comparison between the parties results regarding causes and solutions and the movement's own suggestions to causes and solutions, to identify if the movement have gained different results regarding its impact on different parties. By studying posts on the websites of each party, together with a debate regarding #Metoo, the studies highlights the differences in how parties frame #Metoo. The results show that there is a difference in the framing of #Metoo in the material between different parties, where right-wing parties are generally focusing less on the movement than left-wing parties and also have less propositions of solutions for #Metoo that are in agreement to the movements own solutions. It is also more common for left-wing parties to propose specific solutions to #Metoo in the institutional arena such as the debate, compared to right-wing parties. As a conclusion, this study helps us understand how different political parties in Sweden have given attention and framed #Metoo and possibly how they will frame other movements as well. Although according to previous research (e.g. Vliegenthart and Walgrave, 2010) the movements attention could also depend on what kind of question it raises and how this question is applicable to the party’s general politics.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:UPSALLA1/oai:DiVA.org:uu-352166 |
| Date | January 2018 |
| Creators | Säflund, Amanda |
| Publisher | Uppsala universitet, Statsvetenskapliga institutionen |
| Source Sets | DiVA Archive at Upsalla University |
| Language | Swedish |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Student thesis, info:eu-repo/semantics/bachelorThesis, text |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Rights | info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess |
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