Blåsippans väg : En studie av Sverigedemokraternas utveckling till makten och sympatisörers demokratiska värderingar

Sammanfattning: The research on the success of right-wing radical parties is extensive, not the least in terms of reasons for the success but also findings about the parties' reduced trust in democracy in comparison to other parties. Researchers often link the Sweden Democrats to right-wing radicalism, which makes us wonder if SD sympathizers' trust in democratic institutions is consistent with the party's success? Considering this research gap, the purpose of the study is to examine what the possible incorporation of the Sweden Democrats into Swedish democracy has meant for SD sympathizers' democratic values. The analytical framework consists of Plotke's theory of incorporation in combination with Leander's definition of Pariah in order to answer the following questions with a combined quantitative and qualitative method; Have the Sweden Democrats been incorporated into Swedish democracy? and Has the incorporation of the Sweden Democrats into Swedish democracy led to the Sweden Democrats' sympathizers gaining more democratic values? The study is based on the SOM institute's cumulative dataset of the SOM survey 1986-2020 as well as literature about the Sweden Democrats. The result of the analysis is that SD undergoes an incorporation process and it is confirmed that SD sympathizers gain more democratic values as the party is incorporated, but when the party enters the parliament in 2010 the trend reverses and sympathizers gain less democratic values.