This article analyses the amalgamation of municipalities or local government units which has been carried through in the four Scandinavian countries since the 1950s. The reforms were a product of Social Democracy and were designed to distribute social benefits more equally in each country. The coincidence of the reforms with increased demands for participation are held to have strengthened corporatist trends in the decision‐making process.
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Gunnel Gustafsson (1980) studied this question.
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