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Recent Democractic and Administrative Reforms in Germany’s Local Government: Persistence and Change

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Under New Public Management, NPM, label1, the international debate on the recent wave of public sector reforms has so far mostly focused on Anglo-Saxon and, to some degree, also on Scandinavian world, thus fostering an, as it were, “Anglo-Saxon-centrist” optic and an “Anglophone” accent in the current international modernization discourse. Consequently, the Continental European countries (apart from the Netherlands) have been taken less notice of internationally’. In presenting the “German case”, the chapter is meant to address, to shed some light on one of the major Continental European local government systems and its specific reform trajectory and to tie it in with the international discourse of which this volume should become an important vehicle.

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  2. School of Social Science and Policy, University of New South Wales, USA

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  3. Department of Politics at Tromso University, Norway

    Helge O. Larsen (Associate Professor) (Associate Professor)

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Wollmann, H. (2002). Recent Democractic and Administrative Reforms in Germany’s Local Government: Persistence and Change. In: Caulfield, J., Larsen, H.O. (eds) Local Government at the Millenium. Urban Research International. VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften, Wiesbaden. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-663-10679-1_4

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