Synen på ekonomisk frihet inom Demokraterna och Republikanerna : En idéanalys av fyra olika amerikanska presidenters syn på ekonomisk frihet inom Demokraterna och Republikanerna i USA utifrån Nozick, Rawls och Berlins definitioner

Sammanfattning

Today, many regard the Democratic and the Republican Party in the US to be significantly different than prior with regard to changed rhetoric and changed political world. This reason alone is enough to make an interesting research question how democratic and republican presidents view «economic freedom» based on Robert Nozick, John Rawls and Isaiah Berlins perception of economic freedom. The research question therefore relies on how present presidents view economic freedom compared to how past presidents view economic freedom with Nozick, Rawls and Berlin as emphasizers within the theory. This is performed with the use of by Marie Demker’s coined the is-should-do-scheme, being an analytical tool providing from the empirical material the first State of the Union speech by the selected president where the presidents view on reality (is), uthopia (should) and strategy (do) is presented. The result followed by use of the method is that Jimmy Carter was considered aligned with Berlin and Rawls while Joe Biden was considered aligned with Rawls making the Democratic party emphasising the economic view of Rawls, while Ronald Reagan was considered aligned with Berlin and Donald Trump mostly aligned with Rawls, making the Republican party over time aligned with Rawls and Berlins interpretation.