Lena Langlet is head of the democracy section at the Swedish Association of Local Authorities and Regions, SALAR. She has long studied the effects of municipalities' lack of citizen dialogue.

Langlet believes that municipalities must provide more information than the law requires. She says: "You need to seek out people where they are and do it at a much earlier stage than you do under the legislation" Back to Mail Online home. Back to the page you came from."Get out and meet the citizens where they're at"