Renationalisation of Swedish school : – The parliament parties opinions regarding Swedish school's mandatorship and change of the opinion over time.

This Bachelor thesis aims to examine the opinions of the Swedish parliament parties regarding state Government and local Government of the Swedish school system and how the change in opinion over time appears. The study is an argumentation analysis and includes a comparison of motions and documents from the parliament parties at two different time periods, 1990 and 2007–2020. The issues are ”What arguments exist for and against centralisation and decentralisation of the Swedish school by the parliament parties and how are they motivated?”and ”Has there been a change of opinion over time and how do they, in that case, appear?” Therefore, the thesis studies the Swedish parliament parties attitudes towards localisation and renationalisation of the Swedish school. The result shows that the main argument for a renationalisation is better controlling and the main argument against renationalisation is the longer decision paths. The main arguments for keeping the localised school system is shorter decision paths and more local options. A change has taken place over time in the opinion, parties from different political backgrounds want an investigation in the issue regarding renationalisation of the Swedish school system. Two new parliament parties have been elected after the first time period which has affected the debate