TY  - CHAP
A1  - Bogumil, Jörg
A1  - Kuhlmann, Sabine
ED  - Tanguy, Gildas
ED  - Eymeri-Douzans, Jean-Michel
T1  - Territorial administration in Germany
BT  - institutional variants, reforms, and actors at the meso-level of government
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
SN  - 978-3-030-59395-7
SN  - 978-3-030-59396-4
U6  - https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-59396-4_15
SP  - 327
EP  - 352
PB  - Palgrave Macmillan
CY  - Cham
ER  - 
TY  - CHAP
A1  - Franzke, Jochen
ED  - Nunes Silva, Carlos
T1  - German local authorities in the COVID-19 pandemic
BT  - challenges, impacts and adaptations
T2  - Local government and the COVID-19 pandemic
N2  - This study evaluates the challenges, institutional impacts and responses of German local authorities to the COVID-19 pandemic from a political science point of view. The main research question is how they have contributed to combat the COVID-19 pandemic and to what extent the strengths and weaknesses of the German model of municipal autonomy have influenced their policy. It analyses the adaptation strategies of German local authorities and assesses the effectiveness of their actions up to now. Their implementation is then evaluated in five selected issues, e.g. adjustment organization and staff, challenges for local finances, local politics and citizen’s participation. This analysis is reflecting the scientific debate in Germany since the beginning of 2020, based on the available analyses of political science, law, economics, sociology and geography until end of March 2021.
KW  - Germany
KW  - municipalities
KW  - COVID-19 pandemic
KW  - resilience
KW  - coordination
KW  - administration
KW  - local and urban governance
KW  - local politics
KW  - local finance
KW  - local community
Y1  - 2022
SN  - 978-3-030-91111-9
SN  - 978-3-030-91112-6
U6  - https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-91112-6_6
SP  - 131
EP  - 154
PB  - Springer
CY  - Cham
ER  - 
TY  - CHAP
A1  - Kuhlmann, Sabine
ED  - Goldfinch, Shaun F.
T1  - From Weberian bureaucracy to digital government?
BT  - trajectories of administrative reform in Germany
T2  - Handbook of public administration reform
N2  - Over the past decades, the traditional profile of the German administrative system has significantly been reshaped and remoulded through reforms and transformations. Manifold modernization efforts have been undertaken to adjust administrative structures and procedures to increasing challenges and pressures. In this chapter, the attempt is made to outline major institutional reform paths in Germany from Weberian bureaucracy to most recent reforms towards a digital transformation of public administration. We will show to what extent the German administrative system has moved away from the classical Weberian bureaucracy to a hybrid system where elements of the ‘old’ model and new reform paradigms such as the NPM and digital government are hybridized, labelled the Neo Weberian State. The question will be addressed as to what extent this shift has taken shape and which hurdles and path-dependencies can be identified to explain partial persistence and continuity over time.
KW  - neo weberian state
KW  - digitalization
KW  - new public management
KW  - territorial reforms
KW  - intergovernmental reforms
KW  - Germany
Y1  - 2023
SN  - 978-1-80037-674-8
SN  - 978-1-80037-673-1
U6  - https://doi.org/10.4337/9781800376748.00016
SP  - 207
EP  - 226
PB  - Edward Elgar Publishing
CY  - Cheltenham, UK
ER  - 
TY  - CHAP
A1  - Kuhlmann, Sabine
ED  - Wang, Yukai
ED  - Färber, Gisela
T1  - Local Government in Germany
BT  - Key Features and Current Reforms
T2  - Comparative Studies on Vertical Administration Reforms in China and Germany (Speyerer Forschungsberichte ; 285)
KW  - China
KW  - Deutschland
KW  - Verwaltungsreform
KW  - China
KW  - Germany
KW  - administrative reform
Y1  - 2016
SN  - 978-3-941738-23-2
SP  - 51
EP  - 67
PB  - Deutsches Forschungsinstitut für öffentliche Verwaltung
CY  - Speyer
ER  -