Kulturpolitik i den svenska välfärdsstaten : en idéanalys av två propositioner

Sammanfattning: This essay is about Swedish government cultural policy.The premise is that cultural policy is a form of welfarepolicy. The welfare state has changed and this affects theconditions for the cultural policy. Welfare is funded andorganized in different parts of society, in three spheres thatcan be said to represent society as a whole. These spheresare the public sphere, the market and the civil society. Theaim is to analyze how the national cultural policy appearedin the 1970s, compared to how it appears today. Thetheoretical approach is that society is composed of threespheres, their development is described in the paper withKarl Polanyi's The great transformation. The welfare stateand the change of it is described by two of Jacobs Torfingswritings and by Bob Jessops two ideal types of welfarestates, The Keynesian Welfare National State and TheSchumpeterian Workfare Postnational Regime. The methodis to use the three spheres of society as an ideal type andmake an analysis of ideas in two cultural policy bills. Theresult of the analysis is that in the bill from 1974 the goalbecame a cultural policy that contributes to a more equalsociety and the market's influence on culture is consideredproblematic. In 2009 the market is considered rather assomething contributing to growth and development insociety. This development indicates a change of the welfarestate.