Germany

Tony E. Wohlers and Lynne Louise Bernier
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Tony E. Wohlers: Cameron University
Lynne Louise Bernier: Carroll University

Chapter Chapter 5 in Setting Sail into the Age of Digital Local Government, 2016, pp 57-70 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract Germany is a federal system in which both legislative and administrative competencies are executed across the federal, state, and municipal levels of government. Although administrative powers are mostly divided between the national and state governments, municipalities enjoy a considerable degree of self-administration based on Article 28 of the Grundgesetz or Basic Law. The nature of Germany’s federal system in terms of sharing administrative powers has important consequences for e-government, as illustrated by BundOn-line 2005—a national initiative that aimed at providing federal services faster and more efficiently via the Internet. Within this context, Fetzer (2006) observes:

Date: 2016
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DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4899-7665-9_5

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