Decentralizing for performance? A quantitative assessment of functional reforms in the German Länder (Record no. 50885)
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| Language code of text/sound track or separate title | eng |
| 100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | EBINGER, Falk |
| 9 (RLIN) | 54520 |
| 245 10 - TITLE STATEMENT | |
| Title | Decentralizing for performance? A quantitative assessment of functional reforms in the German Länder |
| 260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. | |
| Place of publication, distribution, etc. | Los Angeles : |
| Name of publisher, distributor, etc. | Sage, |
| Date of publication, distribution, etc. | June 2016 |
| 520 3# - SUMMARY, ETC. | |
| Summary, etc. | In the last 10 years, the governments of most of the German Länder initiated administrative reforms. All of these ventures included the municipalization of substantial sets of tasks. As elsewhere, governments argue that service delivery by communes is more cost-efficient, effective and responsive. Empirical evidence to back these claims is inconsistent at best: a considerable number of case studies cast doubt on unconditionally positive appraisals. Decentralization effects seem to vary depending on the performance dimension and task considered. However, questions of generalizability arise as these findings have not yet been backed by more objective archival data. We provide empirical evidence on decentralization effects for two different policy fields based on two studies. Thereby, the article presents alternative avenues for research on decentralization effects and matches the theoretical expectations on decentralization effects with more robust results. The analysis confirms that overly positive assertions concerning decentralization effects are only partially warranted. As previous case studies suggested, effects have to be looked at in a much more differentiated way, including starting conditions and distinguishing between the various relevant performance dimensions and policy fields. |
| 700 1# - ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | RICHTER, Philipp |
| 9 (RLIN) | 54521 |
| 773 08 - HOST ITEM ENTRY | |
| Title | International Review of Administrative Sciences |
| Related parts | 82, 2, p. 291-314 |
| Place, publisher, and date of publication | Los Angeles : Sage, June 2016 |
| International Standard Serial Number | ISSN 00208523 |
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| Cataloger's initials, CIN (RLIN) | Ana |
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| Cataloger's initials, CIN (RLIN) | Larissa |
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