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Local self-government in Germany and France
Gordana Marčetić
orcid.org/0000-0002-7998-6874
; Assistant Professor of Administrative Science at the Faculty of Law, Zagreb University
Teo Giljević
orcid.org/0000-0002-2948-8973
; Assistant at the Public Administration Study, Zagreb Social Sciences Polytechnic
Abstract
The authors have described local self-government systems in Germany and France. They have analysed the levels, the number and type of territorial units, and the organisation and structure of German and French local self-governments. Different institutional forms of intermunicipal cooperation and connections springing
from a long tradition, as well as from relatively recent territorial reforms, are shown. Modernisation and managerial reforms of local self-government since the 1980s onwards are compared, together with the process of their implementation, which has been conducted bottom-up in Germany and top-down in France.
Keywords
local self-government; local units; cooperation of local units; intermunicipal arrangements; managerial reforms; Germany; France
Hrčak ID:
135489
URI
Publication date:
8.3.2010.
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