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Multi-Level Governance in Hitler's Germany: Reassessing the Political Structure of the National Socialist State
Mehrebenenverwaltung im Nationalsozialismus: eine Neubewertung der politischen Struktur des NS-Staats
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Abstract To explain the fatal efficiency and relative stability of the Nazi dictatorship, it is necessary to analyze how governmental institutions and society at various levels of the political system interacted. Contrary to the expectation that polycratic structures hampered administrative efficiency and te... mehr
To explain the fatal efficiency and relative stability of the Nazi dictatorship, it is necessary to analyze how governmental institutions and society at various levels of the political system interacted. Contrary to the expectation that polycratic structures hampered administrative efficiency and tended to undermine well-established political structures it turns out that new models of governance evolved from the chaotic competition and short-lived cooperation of traditional administrations, party structures and newly created special institutions. While key players on the national level claimed to control lines of command from top to bottom the adaptability of the whole system to new challenges depended to a large extent on complex and often improvised arrangements of multi-level governance. During the war these arrangements served to integrate and to mobilize all political, administrative, military, economic and social forces whose resources were essential to sustain the war effort of the Nazi leadership.... weniger
Thesaurusschlagwörter
Deutsches Reich; politisches System; Nationalsozialismus; Weltkrieg; Mobilisierung; Multi-Level-Governance; Dezentralisation
Klassifikation
Staat, staatliche Organisationsformen
allgemeine Geschichte
Freie Schlagwörter
Gau; Reich Defense Commissioners; polycracy; Nazi Germany
Sprache Dokument
Englisch
Publikationsjahr
2017
Seitenangabe
S. 218-242
Zeitschriftentitel
Historical Social Research, 42 (2017) 2
Heftthema
Spatial Dimensions of Governance in 20th Century Political Struggles
DOI
https://doi.org/10.12759/hsr.42.2017.2.218-242
ISSN
0172-6404
Status
Veröffentlichungsversion; begutachtet (peer reviewed)