Anders Lidström
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View article: Limited, fragmented and powerless: national urban policies in Sweden
Limited, fragmented and powerless: national urban policies in Sweden Open
Although a number of social matters have recently been referred to as “urban problems”, national initiatives that aim at stimulating urban development have only a low degree of coherence and consistence over time in terms of substantive pr…
View article: Various faces of localised voting in Sweden
Various faces of localised voting in Sweden Open
This article investigates the extent of and characteristics of localised voting in a Swedish context. Localised voting is defined as an independent act of choice in relation to local elections. Contrary to most previous research, this arti…
View article: Local Autonomy in The Nordic Countries: A report for the Norwegian Association of Local and Regional Authorities
Local Autonomy in The Nordic Countries: A report for the Norwegian Association of Local and Regional Authorities Open
The purpose of the project is to update the analysis of the autonomy of local government in the five Nordic countries 2015 – 2019. The project is a follow-up of a co-operative endeavor that have measured local autonomy in 39 European count…
View article: Prospects for a European Municipal Data Archive (EMDA)
Prospects for a European Municipal Data Archive (EMDA) Open
This report summarizes a review of the availability of comparable municipal level data on local politics and administration in 29 European countries (the EU member countries excluding Bulgaria, Cyprus, Luxemburg and Malta but including Ice…
View article: Subnational Sweden, the national state and the EU
Subnational Sweden, the national state and the EU Open
The article examines to what extent the position of the Swedish state vis-à-vis the European Union (EU) has been mediated by domestic factors, and in particular how this has affected its subnational authorities, since Sweden joined the EU …
View article: The Scandinavian Regional Model: Accounting for the shift from convergence to divergence
The Scandinavian Regional Model: Accounting for the shift from convergence to divergence Open
This article maps how the sub-national regional levels of governance in Denmark, Norway and Sweden have changed from a high degree of institutional convergence to a pattern of institutional divergence. It analyses the similarities and diff…
View article: Scandinavian Regional Model:
Scandinavian Regional Model: Open
This article maps how the sub-national regional levels of governance in Denmark, Norway and Sweden have changed from a high degree of institutional convergence to a pattern of institutional divergence. It analyses the similarities and di…
View article: Conditions for political leadership in pluricentric Scandinavian regions
Conditions for political leadership in pluricentric Scandinavian regions Open
How does the increasingly pluricentric character of regional governance in Denmark, Sweden and Norway condition the political leadership of politicians elected at regional levels of government? In regional governance, politicians elected…
View article: Taking stock of regional governance in the Nordic countries
Taking stock of regional governance in the Nordic countries Open
A series of reforms and experiments have recently taken place at the regional level of governance in the Nordic countries. Few studies have been made of the implications of these changes for the role and function of regional levels of gove…