Lex Liberalism - En kvalitativ studie om hur Lexbase gör politik

Sammanfattning: The Swedish website Lexbase was launched the year of 2014, by the publisher Jonas Häger. They market themselves as a database with public documents from Swedish courts for the general public. Through their search engine, Lexbase offer private persons to find private and legal persons who have been facing legal proceedings since 2008. The aim of this study is to examine how Lexbase, as a private body, perform politics as well as a contextualization of Lexbase, in a wider point of view than social media. The empirical data is retrieved from Lexbases Facebook page, consisting of their publications, through a subjective selection. The ambition of this study is to schematize their publications and ultimately perform politics, based on a specified definition of the term politics. A qualitative content analysis has been applied. The result of the empirical findings has been categorized within six themes. They are as follows: the self, performative feminism, popular appeal, the market, criminality and risk. The conclusion of this study is that Lexbase perform politics through a positioning of themselves in a moral framework. They make statements on criminality, elected representatives, and the functions and transparency of society. Lexbase can be contextualized by being embedded into the period characterized by the aftermaths of a decentralization of power, which entailed a categorical dissolution of societal frames of reference where new policies, from private bodies, could be performed. The theories used in this study are reinvention of politics, the risk society and governmentality.