Rechtliche Grundlagen der Zusammenarbeit zwischen Bund und Ländern im Bereich der Verwaltung

Remmert, Barbara

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“…Those job centres, at least in their standard form, are joint administrations, uniting under one roof a municipal (following the tradition of the municipal responsibility for paying social care) and a federal administration (following the tradition of the federal responsibility for unemployment benefits). This double-hatted administration runs counter to a basic principle for the distribution of tasks in the German federal system which forbids mixed administrations (Remmert, 2008). Financially, because they assigned costly tasks to the municipal level (costs for the municipal part of the personnel and the organization as well as of costs for the heat and rent benefits), they created a considerable and long-lasting financial burden for the municipalities (more specifically for the counties) without providing for an adequate compensation.…”

Section: 'Hartz Iv'disentanglement In Unemployment Policymentioning

confidence: 92%

Marble cake dreaming of layer cake: the merits and pitfalls of disentanglement in German federalism reform

Kropp

Behnke

2016

Regional & Federal Studies

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This article explains the zigzag of the stepwise federalism reform in Germany by accessing the theoretical concept of institutional incongruity. It is argued that the existing imbalance between competencies, policy problems and fiscal resources was further exacerbated as actors adopted inconsistent institutional 'layers' during the sequential reform. Two case studies on higher education and unemployment policy reveal that actors finally reverted to joint decisionmaking and revived ideas of solidarity in order to remedy inconsistent reform results, although 'disentanglement' and competition had been the leitmotivs underlying the first reform step. The article confirms that institutional congruity is hardly attainable in federations. Reform attempts aiming at disentangling responsibilities and fiscal resources encounter insuperable difficulties, because policy issues more than ever transcend the borders of single territorial units and need joint financing. The study concludes by discussing the question whether joint decision-making -compared to dual resp. 'layer-cake' federalism -owns a specific democratic quality. KEYWORDS Joint decision making; federalism refonn; unempl<7fment policy; higher education; Germany We modernize the federal system, which in itself contains the imperative to cooperate .... we realize that we now enter a period in which we need more cooperation ...

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Section: 'Hartz Iv'disentanglement In Unemployment Policymentioning

confidence: 92%

Marble cake dreaming of layer cake: the merits and pitfalls of disentanglement in German federalism reform

Kropp

Behnke

2016

Regional & Federal Studies

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Marble cake dreaming of layer cake: the merits and pitfalls of disentanglement in German federalism reform

Kropp¹,

Behnke²

2018

Ten Years of Federalism Reform in Germany

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This article explains the zigzag of the stepwise federalism reform in Germany by accessing the theoretical concept of institutional incongruity. It is argued that the existing imbalance between competencies, policy problems and fiscal resources was further exacerbated as actors adopted inconsistent institutional 'layers' during the sequential reform. Two case studies on higher education and unemployment policy reveal that actors finally reverted to joint decisionmaking and revived ideas of solidarity in order to remedy inconsistent reform results, although 'disentanglement' and competition had been the leitmotivs underlying the first reform step. The article confirms that institutional congruity is hardly attainable in federations. Reform attempts aiming at disentangling responsibilities and fiscal resources encounter insuperable difficulties, because policy issues more than ever transcend the borders of single territorial units and need joint financing. The study concludes by discussing the question whether joint decision-making-compared to dual resp. 'layer-cake' federalism-owns a specific democratic quality. KEYWORDS Joint decision making; federalism refonn; unempl<7fment policy; higher education; Germany We modernize the federal system, which in itself contains the imperative to cooperate .... we realize that we now enter a period in which we need more cooperation ...

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Rechtliche Grundlagen der Zusammenarbeit zwischen Bund und Ländern im Bereich der Verwaltung

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Marble cake dreaming of layer cake: the merits and pitfalls of disentanglement in German federalism reform

Marble cake dreaming of layer cake: the merits and pitfalls of disentanglement in German federalism reform

Marble cake dreaming of layer cake: the merits and pitfalls of disentanglement in German federalism reform

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