AUTHOR=Svensson Sara , Keller Judit TITLE=Editorial: Challenges to Local Democracy: Democratization Efforts and Democratic Backsliding at the Sub-national Level JOURNAL=Frontiers in Political Science VOLUME=4 YEAR=2022 URL=https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/political-science/articles/10.3389/fpos.2022.857310 DOI=10.3389/fpos.2022.857310 ISSN=2673-3145