Vänsterpartiet och Liberalerna : Mänskliga rättigheter utifrån den historiska vändningen

Sammanfattning: The aim of my essay is to examine the discourse on the human rights within the Swedish political parties from a right-left perspective. Through an idea and ideology analysis of Liberalerna and Vänsterpartiet party programs from 1944, 1972, 1990 and 2013, the tworesearch questions will be answered. The idea and ideology analysis will be conducted into three parts, first i will conduct a text analysis to determine the subject matter of the text and understand what ideology is presented in the analyzed text.The first research question deals with how Liberalerna and Vänsterpartiet present human rights in their party programs, the second question will be addressing if there has been a change in how the parties present human rights based on the historical turn in human rights. The previous research in the essay will provide and establish a basic understanding between human rights and the political parties in Sweden. The analysis will conclude that there has been a change in how the parties talk about human rights and that human rights are closely linked to a liberal thought tradition. The analys will also conclude that the human rights has been more beneficial for liberal ideology and liberal thought in comparison to socialism and to some extent marxism