How does Municipality Amalgamation Reduce Voter Turnout in Local Elections? The Case of Norway

• In Event: The Politics of Place: Geography and Electoral Outcomes

Brief Overview

I show that municipality amalgamation reduces voter turnout through the dilution of the sense of community through quasi-experiments and survey experiments on the case of the Norwegian Local Reforms between 2014 and 2020.

Author

• Hei Yin Kyle Chan, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill