In the year of 2010 the swedish parlament voted to annul conscript and replaced it with employed soldiers. This study examines the swedish political parties agruments during the debate prior to when the decision was made. The purpose of the study is to gain an understanding of the political parties different position in the debate. The main question is: In what ways are the arguments concerning abolished/retained conscription proposed by the different political parties charactarized by ideological concepts? The theories for the study is Robert Nozicks idéas of the night-whatchman state and Rober Rawls idéas of the welfare state. The essay analyzes the arguments from the swedish political parties. Thus a method of that character is used. The result of the study is that only one of the examined parties, the green party, had clear arguments that had ideological concepts related to civil rights contra civil duties. They argumented that military service should be based onfree will rather than mandatory.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:UPSALLA1/oai:DiVA.org:lnu-69590 |
| Date | January 2017 |
| Creators | Justegård, Vidar |
| Publisher | Linnéuniversitetet, Institutionen för statsvetenskap (ST) |
| 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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