Mid Sweden University

The purpose of this study was to examine how a few Swedish political parties, the social democratic party, the center party and the Sweden democrats, view problems regarding inequality and discrimination in relation to ethnicity from a perspective of neoliberalism and new public management. The study also aimed to examine similarities and differences between the parties’ views on inequality and ethnicity and in their connection to neoliberalism and new public management. Potential measures to handle the problems were also examined. The analysis was executed with an WPR-analysis with neoliberalism and new public management as the primary theoretical framework. The results indicated both similarities and differences in the parties’ representation of the problems surrounding inequality and ethnicity and in their connection to neoliberalism and new public management. The Sweden democrats separated themselves from the other parties to the largest extent in their view on inequality and ethnicity. The center party displayed the most differences in relation to the other parties regarding neoliberalism and new public management. Finally, the results displayed a few potential methods to handle the problems surrounding inequality and ethnicity.