Paweł Swianiewicz is Professor and head of the Division for Social and Economic Research at the Institute of Spatial Management, Wrocław University of Environmental and Life Sciences.Adam Gendźwiłł is Assistant Professor, Department of Local Development and Policy at the Faculty of Geography and Regional Studies, University of Warsaw, Poland. Kurt Houlberg is Professor of Public Policy at Vive, the Danish Center for Social Science Research, Denmark. Jan Erling Klausen is Associate Professor, Department of Political Science, University of Oslo, Norway.

• 1. Introduction: Territorial change at the local level 2. Mapping the intensity of municipal amalgamations 3. Institutional rules for territorial change 4. Where do municipal mergers occur? 5. Municipal splits in Central and Eastern Europe after 1990: Tightening rules 6. Discourses of territorial reforms 7. Patterns of conflicts 8. Coupling territorial reform with other reforms: do amalgamations lead to further decentralisation? 9. Evaluation of territorial reforms 10. Territorial reforms in Europe: What have we learned?

Paweł Swianiewicz is Professor and head of the Division for Social and Economic Research at the Institute of Spatial Management, Wrocław University of Environmental and Life Sciences.Adam Gendźwiłł is Assistant Professor, Department of Local Development and Policy at the Faculty of Geography and Regional Studies, University of Warsaw, Poland. Kurt Houlberg is Professor of Public Policy at Vive, the Danish Center for Social Science Research, Denmark. Jan Erling Klausen is Associate Professor, Department of Political Science, University of Oslo, Norway.

• 1. Introduction: Territorial change at the local level 2. Mapping the intensity of municipal amalgamations 3. Institutional rules for territorial change 4. Where do municipal mergers occur? 5. Municipal splits in Central and Eastern Europe after 1990: Tightening rules 6. Discourses of territorial reforms 7. Patterns of conflicts 8. Coupling territorial reform with other reforms: do amalgamations lead to further decentralisation? 9. Evaluation of territorial reforms 10. Territorial reforms in Europe: What have we learned?

Paweł Swianiewicz is Professor and head of the Division for Social and Economic Research at the Institute of Spatial Management, Wrocław University of Environmental and Life Sciences.Adam Gendźwiłł is Assistant Professor, Department of Local Development and Policy at the Faculty of Geography and Regional Studies, University of Warsaw, Poland. Kurt Houlberg is Professor of Public Policy at Vive, the Danish Center for Social Science Research, Denmark. Jan Erling Klausen is Associate Professor, Department of Political Science, University of Oslo, Norway.

• 1. Introduction: Territorial change at the local level 2. Mapping the intensity of municipal amalgamations 3. Institutional rules for territorial change 4. Where do municipal mergers occur? 5. Municipal splits in Central and Eastern Europe after 1990: Tightening rules 6. Discourses of territorial reforms 7. Patterns of conflicts 8. Coupling territorial reform with other reforms: do amalgamations lead to further decentralisation? 9. Evaluation of territorial reforms 10. Territorial reforms in Europe: What have we learned?