This book is unique in its scope and depth of coverage. It describes the government accounting and budgeting in each of nine European countries, at national and local levels, in their current and prospective forms. The nine countries represent Northern Europe (Finland, Sweden), Central Europe...

Local governments are no longer restricted to in-house production of public services. Contracting out and intermunicipal cooperation have proven to be two viable alternatives, and have gained widespread recognition in practice as well as in scholarly literature. In this paper, we first analyze...

Das vorliegende Gutachten stellt den verbreiteten Stereotypen eine vergleichende Bestandsaufnahme zur Bürokratisierung Deutschlands gegenüber. Ziel ist es, zu einer realistischen Einschätzung über die Kernprobleme der Bürokratisierung in Deutschland zu kommen, um damit der Debatte über...