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A study of strategies of conservative parties under social democracy in Sweden in the 2000s

  • Journal of the Scandinavian Society of Korea
  • Abbr : JSSK
  • 2012, (13), pp.65-94
  • Publisher : The Scandinavian Society of Korea
  • Research Area : Social Science > Area Studies > North Europe(Scandinavian)

Shin Kwang-Yeong 1

1중앙대학교

Candidate

ABSTRACT

Focusing on the 2000s, this paper explores political strategies of conservative opposition parties under the hegemony of social democracy in Sweden. Conservative parties gave up anti-welfare and anti-labor ideology and adopted pro-welfare and pro-labor ideology as a new party ideology in the 2000s. After they formed a ruling coalition government, they did not try to destroy welfare system but to reorganize it in a limited scale. It is alled “liberalization without retrenchment”. Why did it happen in Sweden? This paper argues that it was an outcome of three factors in Swedish politics; the consensus politics, narrowing difference among political parties, and party strategies based on changing voters’ voting behavior.

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This paper was written with support from the National Research Foundation of Korea.