Today, Västra Götaland is Sweden’s second largest region in terms of population. This means that there is a large variety of different municipalites to take in account when implementing a deepened democratic figure and coordination of the region’s politics. This essay aims to examine how different citizens, living in different municipalities within Västra Götaland, perceives how well regional democracy works. The theoretical framework for the essay is centrum-periphery and political psychology. The purpose of the essay is to find if there is a difference between citizens living in the theoretical centrum or periphery, and how they perceive the democracy within Västra Götaland. Can these divisions contribute to democracy being perceived differently depending on whether the individual lives in a smaller town or a larger city? This essay examines this through data collected by the SOM-institute yearly citizen surveys in Västra Götaland and compares this data from the year 2002 and 2018. The results indicated that there has been a change through the years of how town size affects the outcome of how the respondents perceives the regions democracy. There was a difference between citizens living in centrum or periphery in 2002, but a less difference in 2018.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:UPSALLA1/oai:DiVA.org:lnu-126629 |
| Date | January 2024 |
| Creators | Carlsson Heie, Sara |
| 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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