The role of local government in multi-level governance in Federal Republic of Germany Cover Image

Rola samorządu gminnego w multi-level governance w Republice Federalnej Niemiec
The role of local government in multi-level governance in Federal Republic of Germany

Author(s): Marta Balcerek-Kosiarz
Subject(s): Economy, Law, Constitution, Jurisprudence, Business Economy / Management
Published by: Wydawnictwo Naukowe Uniwersytetu Szczecińskiego
Keywords: Governance; Multi-level Governance; local government; Germany

Summary/Abstract: The aim of this article is to present how the concept of multi-level governance was adopted to the German local government. The author made two arrangements. Firstly, the emergence of multi-level governance in Germany is based on top-down activities, which occur between federal states and communities. Creating network systems results from the conviction of the state authorities about fulfillment of public tasks, which is more effective with private organizations, which are moderated by public entities. Secondly, before implementing multi-level governance on local level, the regional governance was posed on the level of federal states, which is the adjustment of governance’s concept to the specify of federal states. Notwithstanding, the most important result from this article is the fact, that multi-level governance was implemented to the structure of local government in the characteristic type of public task (Gemeinschaftsaufgaben).

  • Issue Year: 2018
  • Issue No: 10
  • Page Range: 51-65
  • Page Count: 15
  • Language: Polish