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Den politiska debatten om korruption: En kritisk diskursanalys av debatten om korruption i riksdagen
Karlstad University, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences (starting 2013), Department of Political, Historical, Religious and Cultural Studies (from 2013).
2023 (Swedish)Independent thesis Basic level (degree of Bachelor), 10 credits / 15 HE creditsStudent thesisAlternative title
The political debate on corruption : A critical discourse analysis of the debate on corruption in the parliament (English)
Abstract [en]

Transparency International published its annual corruption perceptions index in 2022, where Sweden obtained the highest measured level of perceived corruption in eleven years. At about the same time, an investigation into corruption and undue influence was discarded by the newly appointed government. The purpose of this thesis is to examine two current political debates about corruption through Norman Faircloughs model for critical discourse analysis. In more detail, the objectives are to study which discourses that can be distinguished, the characteristics of the discursive struggle and which discourse that dominates the Swedish corruption debate. In this thesis, political debates are considered as usable contexts to illustrate both contradiction and consensus regarding the corruption in Sweden. By using critical discourse analysis as an approach, the ambition is to visualize how politicians construct the image of the increased corruption and to examine how certain statements are presented as more evident or true than others. This study shows that there are four discourses that can be distinguished in the two political debates on corruption: privatization, increasing crime rate, accountability and openness and trust. The observed discursive struggle generally has high interdiscursivity, a few cases of intertextuality, and seems to be open to changes. The discourse that dominates the order of discourse is "the increasing crime rate". The results indicate that current societal problems, that are mainly highlighted by the ruling politicians, appear to have an impact on the political discussion about corruption in Sweden.

Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
2023. , p. 37
Keywords [en]
corruption, undue influence, political debates, social constructionism, critical discourse analysis
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Political Science
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URN: urn:nbn:se:kau:diva-96615OAI: oai:DiVA.org:kau-96615DiVA, id: diva2:1794519
Subject / course
Political Science
Educational program
Political Science (180 ECTS credits)
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Available from: 2023-09-06 Created: 2023-09-05 Last updated: 2023-09-06Bibliographically approved

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