Regeringspresskonferensernas uppgång i Sverige 1993–2019

Sammanfattning: This study exams the governmental press conferences between 1993 and 2019. It aims to understand the fluctuations and increase of press conferences over the whole period as well as during term of office and discusses possible explanations for these changes. For the analytical discussion, tools like coalition theory and more recent theoretical frameworks such as Sagarzazu and Klüvers research are used. Furthermore, mediatisation theory and concept like media logic and political logic are used to better understand the increase of governmental press conferences over time. The study uses data from the government office, archived at the National Archive. Since 2006, governmental press conferences have increased and stayed on a higher level than during the 1990s. Beside a recurrent pattern of low number of press conferences during the summers, the data also shows an even bigger downfall for the summer months before the election. This result indicates that the usage of governmental press conferences as a political tool have not been party politicized. Additionally, the study concludes that government coalitions do not seem to cause the increased amount on governmental press conferences.