The death of agonism? : An ideological study of the Social Democratic Party and the Moderate Party.

The purpose of this essay is to find out if the political parties have embraced each other's ideologies. The comprehensive question of the essay is: Have the Social Democratic Party and the Moderate Party ideologies viewpoint on man and society changed? Have their economic ideals changed? This essay will use a qualitative ideal type study on the political parties program from 1990, 2001 and 2013. The result of this essay shows that while both parties have approached liberalism, only the Moderate Party have kept their ideological view through the years in the study. While the Social Democratic Party still hold democratic socialism viewpoint on society and the states relationship with the market. They have adopted a liberal viewpoint on man. Antagonism is still pertinent between the two political parties