Sverigedemokraterna: det nya arbetarpartiet : En kvantitativ undersökning av vilka faktorer som förklarar varför arbetare stödjer Sverigedemokraterna

Sweden has in the past thirteen years seen an increased support for a rightwing populist party: The Sweden Democrats. Previous surveys and research show that the Sweden Democrats has taken a large part of their supporters from the Social Democrats, and that a large amount of their supporters are workers. The aim of this thesis is to use quantitative method to analyze which factors that explain which one of the two parties: the Sweden Democrats and the Social Democrats, that workers support. The two categories of explanatory factors that are mainly analyzed is materialistic and non-materialistic explanatory factors. The results show that the main factors that affect if workers support the Sweden Democrats rather than the Social Democrats is non-materialistic factors such as negative attitudes towards new liberal individualistic values such as religious freedom, increased gender equality and increased rights for LBTQ-people, but also negative attitudes towards multiculturalism and immigration.