Skattar bäst som skattar sist? - Idéanalys av skånska folkpartisters inställning i skatte- och välfärdspolitiska frågor

This thesis was written as an assignment from the Liberal Party (Folkpartiet) in Scania, Sweden. Its main objective was to describe the ideological views of eight members of the regional party on tax and welfare related issues. The subject was raised when the party within their regional political alliance agreed to raise the regional tax level, even though the party had strong ambitions to lower it. The analysis of the thesis is based on two ideal types of social liberalism and neo-liberalism, which each consists of five relevant groups of ideas: view of man, welfare and market, freedom and individual rights, just distribution, and taxes. The material used in the analysis was gathered from personal interviews with eight members of the party. The results of the analysis showed a complete unity from the interviewed members towards the social liberal ideas. None of the interviews persons showed sufficient signs of agreeing with the neo-liberal ideas regarding neither freedom and individual rights nor a just distribution. In these questions the interviewees expressed stronger efforts of distancing themselves from the socialist model of society. However the interviewees were less reluctant towards the neo-liberal ideas regarding the welfare and market relationship