Sweden has in the past thirteen years seen an increased support for a rightwing populist party: The Sweden Democrats. Previous surveys and research show that the Sweden Democrats has taken a large part of their supporters from the Social Democrats, and that a large amount of their supporters are workers. The aim of this thesis is to use quantitative method to analyze which factors that explain which one of the two parties: the Sweden Democrats and the Social Democrats, that workers support. The two categories of explanatory factors that are mainly analyzed is materialistic and non-materialistic explanatory factors. The results show that the main factors that affect if workers support the Sweden Democrats rather than the Social Democrats is non-materialistic factors such as negative attitudes towards new liberal individualistic values such as religious freedom, increased gender equality and increased rights for LBTQ-people, but also negative attitudes towards multiculturalism and immigration.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:UPSALLA1/oai:DiVA.org:lnu-126635 |
| Date | January 2023 |
| Creators | Byström, Aron |
| 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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