Eva Marín Hlynsdóttir is Professor of Public Policy and Governance at the University of Iceland.Morten Balle Hansen is Professor in Public Management, SDU University and Director of the Research program in Management, UCL University College, DenmarkAnna Cregård is Associate Professor in the Department of Work Life and Social Welfare, University of Borås, Sweden.Dag Olaf Torjesen is Professor in the Department of Political Science and Management, University of Agder, Norway.Siv Sandberg is Lecturer in Public Administration at Åbo Akademi University, Finland.

• Chapter 1. Introduction the Nordic municipal chief executive officer(Morten Balle Hansen) .- Chapter 2. Demands, constraints, and choices of Nordic municipal CEOs: A Conceptual Framework (Morten Balle Hansen).- Chapter 3. The Nordic local government model (Eva Marín Hlynsdóttir).- Chapter 4. The Danish municipal chief executive officer revisited  (Morten Balle Hansen).- Chapter 5. The slow transition of the Finnish council-manager model (Siv Sandberg).- Chapter 6. The special case of the Icelandic municipal chief executive officer (Eva Marín Hlynsdóttir).- Chapter 7. The Norwegian municipal chief executive officer anno 2022 (Dag Olaf Torjesen).- Chapter 8. 25 years of stability and change: The role of the Swedish MCEO (Anna Cregård).- 9. Conclusions.

Eva Marín Hlynsdóttir is Professor of Public Policy and Governance at the University of Iceland.Morten Balle Hansen is Professor in Public Management, SDU University and Director of the Research program in Management, UCL University College, DenmarkAnna Cregård is Associate Professor in the Department of Work Life and Social Welfare, University of Borås, Sweden.Dag Olaf Torjesen is Professor in the Department of Political Science and Management, University of Agder, Norway.Siv Sandberg is Lecturer in Public Administration at Åbo Akademi University, Finland.

• Chapter 1. Introduction the Nordic municipal chief executive officer(Morten Balle Hansen) .- Chapter 2. Demands, constraints, and choices of Nordic municipal CEOs: A Conceptual Framework (Morten Balle Hansen).- Chapter 3. The Nordic local government model (Eva Marín Hlynsdóttir).- Chapter 4. The Danish municipal chief executive officer revisited  (Morten Balle Hansen).- Chapter 5. The slow transition of the Finnish council-manager model (Siv Sandberg).- Chapter 6. The special case of the Icelandic municipal chief executive officer (Eva Marín Hlynsdóttir).- Chapter 7. The Norwegian municipal chief executive officer anno 2022 (Dag Olaf Torjesen).- Chapter 8. 25 years of stability and change: The role of the Swedish MCEO (Anna Cregård).- 9. Conclusions.