In this article, ideological tranformations within the Swedish Christian Democraticparty throughout the past years is analysed. This is done in comparison with previousresearch on the ideological character of the party from the 1960's to the early 2000's.The party's ideology is analysed with a two dimensional model, i.e. universalism –par-ticularism and confessionalism – secularism. 'these two dimensions are derived fromthe ideological debate within the Dutch CDA during the 1990's, a party that has op-erated in a similar context as the Swedish Christian Democrats have. Based on the twodimensions speeches and op-ed articles by the party leadership is analysed. The con-clusion is that the Swedish Christian Democrats has moved from a position of astrong Christian inspiration to a more secular direction, and that the party also hasmoved from strong universal beliefs to less universal and more particularistic beliefs.
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