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Resultat
Vitenskapelig foredrag
2022

Does municipal amalgamation affect trust in local politicians? The case of Norway

Bidragsytere:
  • Jo Saglie
  • Øystein Solvang og
  • Marte Slagsvold Winsvold

Presentasjon

Navn på arrangementet: ECPR General Conference
Sted: Innsbruck
Dato fra: 22. august 2022
Dato til: 26. august 2022

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Vitenskapelig foredrag
Publiseringsår: 2022

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Tittel

Does municipal amalgamation affect trust in local politicians? The case of Norway

Sammendrag

Studies of the municipal amalgamation reform in Denmark has demonstrated that political trust is vulnerable to changes in jurisdictional borders. In this paper, we explore the extent to which the large-scale municipal amalgamation reform in Norway of the 2010s affected citizens’ trust in local and national elected assemblies. Using data from before the merger and at the time of the merger, we compare the development of trust in local and national political assemblies in unmerged municipalities, ‘senior partners’ in merged municipalities, and ‘junior partners’ in merged municipalities. We regard the reform as a quasi-experiment and compare trends in merged and non-merged municipalities in order to examine the effect of size on political trust. Because trust in both the national government and local government could be affected by the reform, but only the local government changes in size, we compare trust in the two levels in order to separate the effects of size from the effects of reform in itself. Unlike results from studies of a similar reform in Denmark, we do not find evidence that the Local Government Reform has had significant negative effects on political trust. We argue that the likely reason for the difference between the Danish and Norwegian findings may be differences in the procedural aspects of the two reforms, but also that previous studies may not have been able to separate the effect of the reform process from the effect of size as such.

Bidragsytere

Aktiv cristin-person

Jo Saglie

  • Tilknyttet:
    Forfatter
    ved Institutt for samfunnsforskning

Øystein Solvang

  • Tilknyttet:
    Forfatter
    ved Institutt for samfunnsvitenskap ved UiT Norges arktiske universitet

Marte Winsvold

Bidragsyterens navn vises på dette resultatet som Marte Slagsvold Winsvold
  • Tilknyttet:
    Forfatter
    ved Institutt for samfunnsforskning
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