This study explores the local municipality as an important arena for developing and implementing initiatives for a transition to long-term sustainable development. It focuses on institutional conditions that support the integration of ‘radical’, transition-oriented perspectives and ideas (i.e. perspectives stressing the need for changed social power relations and ‘other’ norms and visions for the future,) in local governance, with a specific focus on small municipalities. Inspired by transition literature and theory on institutional capacity, the paper explores frames of reference, relational resources, and mobilisation capacity. Empirically, the paper builds on research in two small municipalities in Sweden, where we studied documents on policy for local development, and energy and land-use planning, and carried out qualitative interviews with politicians, planners, and actors from local industry and civil society. The study provides a rich empirical illustration of specific conditions that affect the possibilities to work with transition-oriented perspectives in small municipalities.

这项研究探索了当地市政当局作为制定和实施向长期可持续发展过渡的倡议的重要舞台。它侧重于支持在地方治理中结合“激进”，过渡导向的观点和思想（即强调改变社会权力关系和对未来的“其他”规范和观点的需要的观点）的制度条件，专注于小型城市。受转型文献和机构能力理论的启发，本文探索了参考框架，关系资源和动员能力。根据经验，本文以瑞典两个小城市的研究为基础，在那里我们研究了有关地方发展政策以及能源和土地利用规划的文件，并对当地行业和民间社会的政治人物，规划人员和演员进行了定性采访。该研究为特定条件提供了丰富的经验说明，这些条件影响了在小城市中以过渡导向的观点开展工作的可能性。