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“Only a few years ago the inhabitants of Gothenburg were faced with just two ballot forms, one for the Riksdag (the national parliament) and one for the municipality,” Olof Petersson writes in his contribution to this book. “Today the people of Gothenburg are represented by politicians at six levels: the European Parliament, Västra Götaland (the county council), the Gothenburg region (indirectly elected), Gothenburg (the municipality), and the neighbourhood council (also indirectly elected)1. How will popular will be realised in what is far from a transparent system?”
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Molander, P. (2004). Introduction — Problems of Multi-Level Democracies. In: Molander, P. (eds) Fiscal Federalism in Unitary States. ZEI Studies in European Economics and Law, vol 6. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-0503-7_1
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