Att dela sitt styre i koalition

Sammanfattning: This study has examined four different coalition agreements from four different governments that have governed Sweden on four different occasions, 2006, 2010, 2018 and 2022. The study aims to test the theory written by political scientists Hanna Bäck & Heike Klüver regarding their scientific research in how coalition governments work in reality and the vital role of a coalition agreement. Their work includes how these agreements work and how parties control their coalitions partners, how issue-attention, preference tangentiality and joint salience have an effect on the dynamics in ruling in a coalition government. They conclude in their study that issue-attention is a product of high joint salience between parties in different areas of policies and low tangentiality, which means that the interests of parties collide. With the help of a qualitative approach to election manifestos and agreements from relevant election years this study concludes that this isn't necessarily the case. The results of this study finds that issue-attention can be the product of merely high joint salience between the parties, with no need for the parties to be disagreeing on a political issue for it to receive much attention in the coalition agreement.