Vad sägs om Kulturen : En analys av moralen i Sverigedemokraternas och Miljöpartiets perspektiv på kultur 

Sammanfattning: The aim of this paper is to study the morality of two opposing political parties’ perspective on culture. The political parties chosen for this paper are the Green party and the Sweden democrats. These political parties were chosen because of their stated opposition against each other as well as their categorization in political attitude test like the GAL-TAN scale. The paper uses Jonathan Haidt’s moral foundation theory as a basis to examine the morality of the two political parties. Moral Foundation theory is a theory of moral psychology that uses evolutionary principles to describe how morality evolved in humans and what the foundations of morality are. These moral foundations are according to Haidt: Care, Fairness, Authority, Loyalty, Sanctity and Freedom. The material used for this paper are election manifestos and other policy programmes of both political parties. The method used is discourse analysis. The analysis of the material shows that both parties put forth similar political propositions in regard to culture. The main difference between both political parties is on which moral foundation the political proposition was put forth. This was most evident in cases where the political proposition was effectively the same, but the moral motivation behind the proposition was based on different moral foundations.