There is no legislation in Sweden that forces municipalities to implement democracy-developing measures. Municipalities and regions are thus given a great deal of personal responsibility to implement this type of measure. Previous research shows that there are great variations in the number of democray-developing measuers between Sweden's municipalities. This means that inequality is introduced between residents in different municipalities in terms of the impact on local policy.The ambition of this study was thus to find out why this variation prevails. The question for the study is • What factors can explain the variation in the prevalence of democracy-developing work in Swedish municipalities and what proportion of the variation can these factors explain?By quantitatively testing three different factors that could have an impact on the number of democracy-developing measures, an answer to the question of the study can be obtained. The three factors were economy, political ideology and its stability and geographical network. After compiling statistics from these three factors in relation to the number of democracy-developing measures in the Swedish municipalities, results from the statistics program SPSS could be analyzed. This shows that these three factors together account for an explanatory degree between 8.7 to 33.4 percent of the variance.