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Why has the regional issue become important in Sweden, a unitary state with strong central and local levels? This question is analysed with help of three explanatory theses: Europeanization, intra-national driving forces and regional mobilization from below. The argument is that underlying intranational forces of decentralization and regional complexity motivates a stronger regional level, but that Europeanization often triggers off processes— of regionalization. The regional mobilization from below stems from urban economic modernization: Relatively economically independent regions close to the central Europe and with a relatively Europeanized mentality regionalize to a larger extent (Skåne and West Götaland) than regions neither relatively economically independent nor having a Europeanized mentality.
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Olsson et al. (2003) studied this question.
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