03958nam a22005655i 4500 978-3-031-68354-1 DE-He213 20251030113119.0 cr nn 008mamaa 241001s2024 sz | s |||| 0|eng d 9783031683541 978-3-031-68354-1 10.1007/978-3-031-68354-1 doi JF20-2112 JPQ bicssc POL028000 bisacsh JPQ thema Wollmann, Hellmut. author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut 85400 Local Government and Governance in Germany [electronic resource] : Challenges, Responses and Perspectives / by Hellmut Wollmann. 1st ed. 2024. Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2024. XIX, 169 p. 3 illus. online resource. text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Local and Urban Governance, 2524-5457 Chapter 1. Introduction -- Chapter 2. Position and Functions of Local Government in Germany’s Federal Multi-Level System -- Chapter 3. Local Political Actors and Processes -- Chapter 4. Local Administration -- Chapter 5. Digitisation of Public and Local Administration -- Chapter 6. Local Government Personnel -- Chapter 7. Local Government Finances -- Chapter 8. Provision of Public and Personal Social Services -- Chapter 9. Combatting Unemployment -- Chapter 10. Assisting of Asylum Seekers and Refugees -- Chapter11. Involvement in the “Energy Transition” (“Energiewende”) -- Chapter 12. Extended Responsibilities in the School Sector -- Chapter 13 Responses to the Covid-19 Pandemic -- Chapter 14. “Comeback” of Local Government in East Germany Following German Unification -- Chapter 15. Summary and Conclusions. The book aims at outlining key political, functional, administrative and financial features of Germany’s local government system and at placing them in a (European) comparative perspective. In pursuing an “institutionalist” approach it focuses on discussing whether, how and why the position and activities of local government in the intergovernmental (“multi-level”) setting have changed vis-à-vis multiple challenges and crises. Among the latter tasks such as coping with the energy crisis, the influx of asylum seekers and refugees, the digitization of local administration and the Covid19 pandemic loom large. Ranking among the functionally and politically strongest among European countries Germany’s local government plays an important role in the German federal system and beyond in the European Union. Over the years it has proved a remarkable problem solving and innovative capacity. Hence, the German case may attract the attention of a European and international audience interested in local government and governance and practices. Political science. 58714 Urban policy. 57466 Economic development. 58075 Geography. 62292 Governance and Government. Urban Policy. 57466 Development Studies. 67851 Regional Geography. 66451 SpringerLink (Online service) Springer Nature eBook Printed edition: 9783031683534 Printed edition: 9783031683558 Printed edition: 9783031683565 Local and Urban Governance, 2524-5457 69580 https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-68354-1 ZDB-2-POS ZDB-2-SXPI 63903 63903