Zur Transformation territorialer Politikstrukturen. Landes- und Kommunalverwaltungen in den neuen Bundesländern

Bullmann, Udo; Schwanengel, Wito

doi:10.1007/978-3-322-92544-2_10

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“…In addition, and this is characteristic for the shift in thinking about good government, the Stadtforum Berlin is expected to help streamline decision making (Fassbinder 1995). In the new eastern Laender, there is still substantial support, although less militant, for the citizens' rights movements that helped break down the Berlin Wall in 1989 with the slogan 'wir sind das Volk' (Bullmann and Schwanengel 1995).…”

Section: The 1990s: Breakthrough Of 'The New Steering Model'mentioning

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Between Democracy and Efficiency: Trends in Local Government Reform in the Netherlands and Germany

Hendriks

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1999

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In this article attention is drawn to a striking difference between recent attempts to reform local government in the Netherlands and in Germany. What has been the prime focus of attention in the Netherlands in the 1980s is being emphasized in Germany in the 1990s, and what is being emphasized in the Netherlands in the 1990s has been the prime focus of attention in Germany in the 1980s. Trends in local goverment reform in the Netherlands have been going from a focus on more efficiency to a focus on more democracy, while trends in local government reform in Germany have been going the other way around. Likely explanations for these intersecting reform trends are built on four pillars: financial crises, legitimacy crises, formal institutions and informal institutions

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confidence: 99%