Moderaterna och valfardsstaten

摘要

The party hascome to accept that the modern welfare state is irreplaceable. We furthermore arguethat the party's moderate electoral platform in 2006 is earnest. In the short run theparty can only hope to achieve incremental changes and it recognises this. Simultane-ously however, the party in the long run wants to gradually change society. Over time-the party in its rhetoric and ideological statements has emphasised the short and thelong run differently. These differences between the `neo-liberal' 1980s and 2006should not conceal that the mechanism of welfare popularity largely remains thesame. The party's actual policy proposals tend to suggest incremental changes only inboth periods.