Administrative Reforms in the Multilevel System
- The chapter analyses recent reforms in the multilevel system of the Länder, specifically territorial, functional and structural reforms, which represent three of the most crucial and closely interconnected reform trajectories at the subnational level. It sheds light on the variety of reform approaches pursued in the different Länder and also highlights some factors that account for these differences. The transfer of state functions to local governments is addressed as well as the restructuring of Länder administrations (e.g. abolishment of the meso level of the Länder administration and of single-purpose state agencies) and the rescaling of territorial boundaries at county and municipal levels, including a brief review of the recently failed (territorial) reforms in Eastern Germany.
| Author details: | Sabine KuhlmannORCiDGND, Jörg BogumilORCiDGND |
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| DOI: | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-53697-8_16 |
| ISBN: | 978-3-030-53696-1 |
| ISBN: | 978-3-030-53697-8 |
| Title of parent work (English): | Public Administration in Germany |
| Subtitle (English): | Reshuffling Tasks and Territories |
| Publisher: | Palgrave Macmillan |
| Place of publishing: | Cham |
| Publication type: | Article |
| Language: | English |
| Date of first publication: | 2021/01/30 |
| Publication year: | 2021 |
| Release date: | 2021/03/30 |
| First page: | 271 |
| Last Page: | 289 |
| Organizational units: | Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaftliche Fakultät / Wirtschaftswissenschaften / Fachgruppe Betriebswirtschaftslehre |
| DDC classification: | 3 Sozialwissenschaften / 32 Politikwissenschaft / 320 Politikwissenschaft |
| License (German): |  CC-BY - Namensnennung 4.0 International |
