Territorial administration in Germany
- 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.
Author details: | Jörg BogumilORCiDGND, Sabine KuhlmannORCiDGND |
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DOI: | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-59396-4_15 |
ISBN: | 978-3-030-59395-7 |
ISBN: | 978-3-030-59396-4 |
Title of parent work (English): | Prefects, governors and commissioners : territorial representatives of the state in Europe |
Subtitle (English): | institutional variants, reforms, and actors at the meso-level of government |
Publisher: | Palgrave Macmillan |
Place of publishing: | Cham |
Editor(s): | Gildas Tanguy, Jean-Michel Eymeri-Douzans |
Publication type: | Part of a Book |
Language: | English |
Date of first publication: | 2020/12/29 |
Publication year: | 2020 |
Release date: | 2024/01/24 |
Tag: | Germany; institutional change; meso-level of government; territorial administration |
Number of pages: | 26 |
First page: | 327 |
Last Page: | 352 |
Organizational units: | Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaftliche Fakultät / Sozialwissenschaften / Fachgruppe Politik- & Verwaltungswissenschaft |
DDC classification: | 3 Sozialwissenschaften / 32 Politikwissenschaft / 320 Politikwissenschaft |