Local Democracy: Community Power based on Institutional Change

Abstract

This chapter deals with the changes in public administration at the local level in the contemporary Nordic societies, though the actual empirical evidence is restricted to Denmark, I link these changes to the ideas of the post-modern society.

Earlier versions of this chapter were presented at the Conference on Comparative Welfare Systems in Transition, Roskilde University 5–6 May 1994, and at the International Political Science Association World Congress, Berlin, 21–25 August 1994, on the panel on Changes in Community Power. I thank the participants for helpful comments.