Amalgamation Reforms in Iceland: How strategies have shaped conflicts and outcomes

Two comprehensive municipal structural reforms have been implemented in Iceland, the first one starting in 1991 and ending in 1993, and the second one starting in 2003 and ending in 2005. Other reform intentions by governments and ministers have been planned but have not come to be a reform. The aim of this article is to identify the reform strategies used, the conflicts that arose, the outcomes…