Two Centuries of Local Autonomy [electronic resource] /
Backhaus, Jürgen.editor.
Heilbronn Symposium in Economics and the Social Sciences(19th :2008Heilbronn, Germany)
One of the last Prussian Reforms during the Napoleonic Era was the constitution of local autonomy for the cities. Proof of its lasting importance is that it was the cities that carried out the deficit-based employment policies of the early 1930s also had to carry the burden of a democratic reconstitution of Germany in the postwar period. After the crushing defeat at Napoleon’s hands, likewise the reconstitution of Prussia fell to the cities. Today, the same constellation of problems can be found on different stages.  Europe, as it is growing together, faces a democracy deficit which ultimately will have to be addressed by the cities.  The countries in transition and undergoing transformation likewise will have to find arenas for democratic decision making, which likely will be at the municipal level. Finally, the United States of America also faces a quagmire at the federal level which ultimately will have to be resolved at the state or local level. Contributions to this book examine all of these issues, making it of interest to students in urban studies, public administration, history and political science as well as policy-makers concerned with local government and autonomy.
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Two Centuries of Local Autonomy; Contents; Contributors; Chapter 1: Two Centuries of Local Autonomy; Introduction; Chapter 2: Friedrich List on Local Autonomy in His Contributions to the Debate About the Constitution of Württemberg in 1816/1817; Friedrich List: Unknown as an Early Advocate of Municipal Autonomy; List's Concept of Municipal Autonomy; List's Proposals in Comparison with Stein's Städteordnung in Prussia; List's Intervention in Comparison with Hegel's Intervention into the Constitutional Debate in Württemberg: Parallels and Differences
Further Development of Municipal Autonomy in Germany During the Nineteenth Century References; Chapter 3: Determinant Factors of Economic Development and Local Economy: Theoretical Concepts in Retrospect; Introduction; Historical Background: The "Stein-Hardenberg-Reforms" in Prussia 1807/1808; Administrative Reforms "from Above"; The New Municipality Government Statute ("Städteordnung"); The Efforts to Reorganize the Public Administration of Rural Communities; Research Concepts Concerning the Economic Development of Cities; Roscher About Stein und Hardenberg
Schmoller and Sombart About the Economic Development of Cities Authors of Studies on Urban Economics and Endogenous Economic Growth; Local Public Finance and Local Autonomy Under the Conditions of Urbanization and Globalization; Summary; References; Chapter 4: Wilhelm Roepke's Emphasis on the Local Community*; Introduction; Decentralization as a Characteristic of the Humane Economy; Decentralized and Deficit-Based Recovery Policies; Summary and Conclusion; References; Chapter 5: Mission-Driven Business Schools; Case No I; Case No. II; Case III; Chapter 6: Dühring and Carey on Local Autonomy
Introduction The Berlin-Philadelphia Connection; Carey's Method; Dühring's System of Sociopolitical Political Economics; Centralized Government Vs. Local Autonomy; Overcoming Centralized Government; Conclusion; References; Chapter 7: 200 Years of Local Autonomy: The Relevance for Today; Introduction; Wilhelm von Humboldt; Local Autonomy and European Political Integration; The Principle of Subsidiarity; Sphere Sovereignty; Sphere Sovereignty and the European Union; Civil Society (or Civility); Civil Society (or Civility) and European Union
Remarks on the Principles as Safeguards of Local AutonomyConclusion; References; Chapter 8: Agricultural Reform; Introduction; Agricultural Reforms; Abolition of Serfdom [Bauernbefreiung]; Edict of October 1807; Edict on the Regulation and Culture of the Country of 1811 [Regulierungs- und Landeskulturedikt von 1811] and Further Regulations; Conclusion; References; Chapter 9: Population Policy and Local Government; Introduction; Tasks and Limits for Local Government; Population Development; Methodological Starting Point; Reasons for Low Fertility; Local Necessities for Population Policy
Influencing Local Population Development by Qualifying Adjustments
Includes bibliographical references and index.
One of the last Prussian Reforms during the Napoleonic Era was the constitution of local autonomy for the cities. Proof of its lasting importance is that it was the cities that carried out the deficit-based employment policies of the early 1930s also had to carry the burden of a democratic reconstitution of Germany in the postwar period. After the crushing defeat at Napoleon’s hands, likewise the reconstitution of Prussia fell to the cities. Today, the same constellation of problems can be found on different stages.  Europe, as it is growing together, faces a democracy deficit which ultimately will have to be addressed by the cities.  The countries in transition and undergoing transformation likewise will have to find arenas for democratic decision making, which likely will be at the municipal level. Finally, the United States of America also faces a quagmire at the federal level which ultimately will have to be resolved at the state or local level. Contributions to this book examine all of these issues, making it of interest to students in urban studies, public administration, history and political science as well as policy-makers concerned with local government and autonomy.
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