Naturkatastrofer, riskperception och agendasättande i Sverige : En kvantitativ innehållsanalys av offentliga dokument från Sveriges riksdag

Sammanfattning: Within research about climate change and its impact on the policy process, there are different theoretical perspectives that are used separately to try to explain what influences the policy process. The fact that these perspectives are used separately creates an opportunity to use these perspectives together to better examine part of the policy process, more specifically agenda-setting. The importance of studying agenda-setting is the understanding of how a depiction of an issue can make it seem important. The purpose of this thesis is to empirically map which different events have an impact on public documents and how long they remain inthe documents, in a way to concretize the two theoretical perspectives to try to understand what is influencing agenda setting. The method that will be used is a quantitative content analysis, to describe the content of the public documents with the help of a dataset that will be created. The results show a decrease in the incidence of documents relating to specific natural disasters, while documents generally about natural disasters increase over time. However, the results differ between the different types of natural disasters, which makes it difficult to draw a clear conclusion. What can be said, however, is that the understanding of what is influencing and creating agenda setting, is facilitated by the use of several theoretical perspectives together.