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Between 1996 and 1999 the number of municipalities in Greece was reduced from 5,825 to 1,033 as a result of forced amalgamations. This chapter seeks to provide a basis for understanding these amalgamations and the events that have occurred in their wake. At the outset the chapter seeks to establish a conceptual frame of reference that connects territorial choice to political processes. The second part of the chapter then discusses decentralization reforms during the period 1980–94, when the need for a transfer of competence to local government and broader legitimacy was predominant, after which the third part focuses upon the impact of Europeanization that was the main force underlying a shift of territorial reform orientation towards efficiency prerogatives in the period from 1995–2006. In the subsequent section, an overall evaluation of framing, reform strategies and patterns of conflict is attempted. Finally, in the fifth part, demands for rescaling territorial politics emerging in 2007 are considered, before the chapter concludes with a brief summary discussion. These keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves.
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