DAGS ATT VÄNDA KAPPAN EFTER VINDEN? - En kvalitativ fallstudie av den svenska regeringens beslut att införa gräns- och ID-kontroller

Sammanfattning: In 2015 Sweden went from being the country who brought in the most asylum seekers per capita in all the EU, to introduce border and ID-checks and EU: s minimum rules. This was a paradigm shift that very few could have expected, but how can we understand it? To explore this issue, I analyzed the Swedish government parties’ manifestos and party platforms from a summative content analysis and compared these to the arguments that were presented at the press conference were these decisions were introduced by the Swedish prime minister and the vice-prime minister. My conclusion is that the Green party was office-seeking, while the Social democrats were mainly vote-seeking even though this conclusion wasn’t as obvious. These conclusions are supplemented with theories about client politics and the anti-populist norm of the legislators, the GAL-TAN scale´s rising importance and its consequences, left wing voters’ views on immigration as an explanatory factor and statistics about Swedish voters’ opinions and most their prominent issues.