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State - Municipality - Citizen: Rational Territorial Reform against Emotional Will of the Citizenry in West Germany?
Staat - Stadt - Bürger: rationale Gebietsreform gegen emotionalen Bürgerwillen in Westdeutschland?
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Abstract The 1960s and early 1970s were characterized by planning optimism and major reforms associated with notions of efficiency on the one hand, and a change in political culture on the other. When government bodies in the Federal Republic of Germany initiated in a top-down way a comprehensive territorial... mehr
The 1960s and early 1970s were characterized by planning optimism and major reforms associated with notions of efficiency on the one hand, and a change in political culture on the other. When government bodies in the Federal Republic of Germany initiated in a top-down way a comprehensive territorial reform and intervened into the everyday life of many people this provoked resistance from citizens. Using the example of the municipal territorial reform as carried out in the Federal Republic, the article addresses tensions as well as a governance processes between the representatives of the state, the municipalities and citizens alongside with a fundamental change in political culture during the 1960s and 1970s. The article shows how the local municipalities reacted to territorial and functional reforms elaborated by the federal and state governments and the ministerial bureaucracy of West Germany with a special focus on North Rhine-Westphalia. It sheds light not only on new players in the political arena, municipalities and local citizens’ initiatives that were increasingly trying to take an active role in decision-making, but also a general change in political culture. Claims for political and social participation and political transparency, a “vital civic spirit” which opposed state planning optimist approaches ‒ demands that those responsible for the reform had to react on. The article examines the redefinitions of the relationship between state and municipality, and citizens in the course of reform processes and related political debates, and analyses how far decisions-making processes changed.... weniger
Thesaurusschlagwörter
Bundesrepublik Deutschland; Protest; Verwaltung; Kommunalplanung; politische Partizipation; Bürgerinitiative; politische Kultur; Raumplanung; Bürgerbeteiligung; Gebietsreform; Reorganisation; Reform; Demokratisierung; Entscheidungsfindung; Modernisierung; politischer Konflikt
Klassifikation
allgemeine Geschichte
politische Willensbildung, politische Soziologie, politische Kultur
Freie Schlagwörter
planning optimism; civic engagement
Sprache Dokument
Englisch
Publikationsjahr
2017
Seitenangabe
S. 295-317
Zeitschriftentitel
Historical Social Research, 42 (2017) 2
Heftthema
Spatial Dimensions of Governance in 20th Century Political Struggles
DOI
https://doi.org/10.12759/hsr.42.2017.2.295-317
ISSN
0172-6404
Status
Veröffentlichungsversion; begutachtet (peer reviewed)