Kanslihushögern

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Kanslihushögern (English: The Chancellery Office Right) is a political concept in Sweden that originated during the 1980s in the so-called "right-wing" of the Swedish Social Democratic Party and was strongly represented in the Cabinet Office and the Ministry of Finance during this time.

Kanslihushögern advocated the

. Members of this Social Democratic policy-making set claimed that greater economic efficiency and free choice, while maintaining a strong social safety-net, was the necessary future for Sweden.

Important spokesmen of this viewpoint were, among others, Kjell-Olof Feldt, Erik Åsbrink and Klas Eklund. Kanslihushögern was an important part of the then ongoing "Wars of the Roses" within the Swedish Social Democratic Party. It was a long ideological power struggle between the party's left- and right-wings.