This bachelor's thesis provides you as the reader with an insight into how ideologicalcompromises can unfold within environmental politics. It conducts an ideological analysis ofproposition 2019/20:47 concerning the tax on plastic carrier bags. The following ideologieswill be examined: socialism, liberalism, conservatism, and green ideology, and how they arelikely to influence the design and implementation of environmental policies. The purpose isto highlight how political ideologies may impact the formulation of environmental policiesand the role they play in the implementation of concrete measures to address environmentalissues. It also explores whether cooperation between political parties with differentideological backgrounds can lead to compromises or if a single ideology dominates when itcomes to shaping environmental policies.The findings of this bachelor's thesis indicate that, currently, it is difficult to pursue anenvironmental policy based on a compromise without one ideology permeating the entireagreement. Through the analysis conducted in this thesis, it is demonstrated that socialism isa strong driving ideology in proposition 2019/20:47 concerning the tax on plastic carrierbags. Furthermore, a discussion is held on the importance of having a unified environmentalpolicy that can effectively address the environmental crisis. This applies both at the nationallevel and as a good example to follow internationally. Having a unified environmental policyis considered necessary in order to have any chance of mitigating the global environmentalcrisis.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:UPSALLA1/oai:DiVA.org:kau-95839 |
| Date | January 2023 |
| Creators | Finnkvist, Thea |
| Publisher | Karlstads universitet, Institutionen för samhälls- och kulturvetenskap (from 2013) |
| 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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