TY  - CHAP
A1  - Bogumil, Jörg
A1  - Kuhlmann, Sabine
A2  - Tanguy, Gildas
A2  - Eymeri-Douzans, Jean-Michel
T1  - Territorial administration in Germany
T2  - Prefects, governors and commissioners : territorial representatives of the state in Europe
N2  - This chapter outlines the organization and allocation of functions at the meso-level of government in Germany (states/Länder administrations). Furthermore, we shed light on the carriers and qualification profiles of the top bureaucrats in meso-level administrations. These high-rank territorial administrators/executives—state appointed heads of administrative districts (Regierungspräsidenten) on the one hand, elected heads of county administrations (Landräte) on the other hand—can be regarded as the German ‘equivalents’ of the prefects in countries with a Napoleonic administrative tradition. Finally, we analyse major reforms that have led to (at times, profound) transformations in territorial administrations, raising the question of to what extent alternative models of territorial bundling and coordination functions are sound and sustainable.
KW  - Germany
KW  - territorial administration
KW  - meso-level of government
KW  - institutional change
Y1  - 2020
UR  - https://publishup.uni-potsdam.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/62236
SN  - 978-3-030-59395-7
SN  - 978-3-030-59396-4
SP  - 327
EP  - 352
PB  - Palgrave Macmillan
CY  - Cham
ER  -