This introduction into comparative public administration provides an in-depth analysis of the
state of public administration and recent administrative reforms in European countries. By …

Across the developed world, the last 50 years have seen a dramatic wave of municipal
mergers, often motivated by a quest for economies of scale. Re-examining the theoretical …

Dieses Lehrbuch soll in das Studium der öffentlichen Verwaltung in vergleichender
Perspektive einführen und einen Überblick über Verwaltungssysteme und …

Abstract In selecting the United Kingdom/England, Germany, Sweden, France, Italy, Spain
and Hungary as comparative cases, and in focusing on three institutional tracks (local …

Zusammenfassung Das Buch behandelt die Reformen subnationaler Politik und Verwaltung
in zwei Ländern der „klassisch-kontinentaleuropäischen “Staatstradition, Deutschland und …

This book provides a comprehensive and up-to-date picture of territorial change on the
municipal level across all European countries. Taking a thematic and comparative …

This article describes and classifies the wide range of local electoral systems in Western
Europe. A classification based on three fundamental dimensions of electoral systems shows …

In the early 1990s, all German Länder (states) introduced direct election of executive
mayors, along with the procedures to recall a sitting mayor by local referendum. This paper …

Дисертацію присвячено дослідженню сутності категорії «основи місцевого
самоврядування», а також питанням типології основ місцевого самоврядування …

In the context of more than a decade of economic expansion that ended in 2008, Spanish
municipalities were active in expanding their functions through vigorous policy-making in …