When the argarian movement created party politics : Ideas and politics in Bondeförbundet during 1910-1959

The aim of this bachelor´s thesis ist to analyze the idea progress in the party programs in the swedish Centre-party during the time 1910-1959. The progress in the party program is compared with the evolution of society during the same period.The bachelor´s aim is also to analyze how each new program is described in newspapers, two newspapers were chosen to make the comparison; Arbetet (a social-democratic newspaper), and Skånska Dagbladet (a centre-party newspaper). The result shows that the party in the beginning was conservative and against both capitalism and socialism. The start of the party was a reaction against the new electionsystem which was introduced in Sweden in 1909.The party took a clear standpoint for the Swedish farmers, but after 1933, they were standing for the whole countryside. In the 1940´s and the 1950´s the party became more like a social liberal party rather than an agrarian party only for the farmers. The party programs are not given much space in the two newspapers. in the 1933 they only give short stories about it, and in the 1959 Arbetet and Skånska Dagbladet mostly writes about the new partycommittee. In newspapers from 1919 it´s not written at all about the new party program. The reason is that the end of the WWI just was happening and was the greatest news at the time