TY  - GEN
A1  - Kersting, Norbert
T1  - Electronic voting : globaler Trend oder Utopie?
T1  - Electronic voting : global trend or utopia?
N2  - The author discusses the issue whether the internet and other electronic sources should be used for elections. Online-elections can make the electoral process not only less complex but also cheaper, thus the analysis faster and more reliable. The lower costs could, in turn, lead to a new impulse on direct-democracy-instruments. Comparing the USA, Great Britain, Germany and Switzerland the article provides information about national strategies, discourses and problems, and shows the different political and cultural settings.
KW  - Onlineabstimmung
KW  - digitale Demokratie
KW  - USA
KW  - Großbritannien
KW  - Deutschland
KW  - Online-voting
KW  - E-democracy
KW  - USA
KW  - Great Britain
KW  - Germany
Y1  - 2005
U6  - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus-48004
ER  - 
TY  - GEN
A1  - Hlepas, Nikos
A1  - Kersting, Norbert
A1  - Kuhlmann, Sabine
A1  - Swianiewicz, Pawel
A1  - Teles, Filipe
T1  - Introduction: Decentralization beyond the municipal tier
T2  - Sub-Municipal Governance in Europe
N2  - In Europe, different countries developed a rich variety of sub-municipal institutions. Out of the plethora of intra- and sub-municipal decentralization forms (reaching from local outposts of city administration to “quasi-federal” structures), this book focuses on territorial sub-municipal units (SMUs) which combine multipurpose territorial responsibility with democratic legitimacy and can be seen as institutions promoting the articulation and realization of collective choices at a sub-municipal level.

Country chapters follow a common pattern that is facilitating systematic comparisons, while at the same time leaving enough space for national peculiarities and priorities chosen and highlighted by the authors, who also take advantage of the eventually existing empirical surveys and case studies.
Y1  - 2018
SN  - 978-3-319-64725-8
SN  - 978-3-319-64724-1
U6  - https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-64725-8_1
SP  - 1
EP  - 24
PB  - Palgrave
CY  - Basingstoke
ER  - 
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Kersting, Norbert
A1  - Kuhlmann, Sabine
T1  - Sub-municipal Units in Germany
BT  - Municipal and Metropolitan Districts
JF  - Sub-municipal Units in Germany: Municipal and Metropolitan Districts
N2  - Sub-municipal units (SMUs) in Germany differ in German Länder. In Berlin, Hamburg and München Metropole Districts fulfill a number of quasi-municipal self-government rights and functions. They have their own budget and strong councils, as well as mayors. In all other Länder, most sub-municipal councils were subordinated under the municipal council and directly elected mayor heading the administration. SMUs were introduced as a kind of compensation with different territorial reforms in the 1970s. Although directly elected, sub-municipal councilors are weak, and their advisory role competes with other newly established advisory boards. Here the focus remains on traffic and town planning. Some sub-municipal councils fulfill smaller administrative functions and become more relevant and important in recent decentralization strategies of neighborhood development.
Y1  - 2018
SN  - 978-3-319-64725-8
SN  - 978-3-319-64724-1
U6  - https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-64725-8_5
SP  - 93
EP  - 118
PB  - Palgrave
CY  - Basingstoke
ER  -