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Small Town and Village in Bavaria
The Passing of a Way of Life1. Aufl.
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37,99 € |
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| Verlag: | Berghahn Books |
| Format: | EPUB |
| Veröffentl.: | 01.04.2012 |
| ISBN/EAN: | 9780857453488 |
| Sprache: | englisch |
| Anzahl Seiten: | 280 |
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<p> At the center of this investigation is the great modernization effort of a West German state, Bavaria, in the 1970s and 1980s, by means of a reform of the smaller units of local government. The reforms were meant to abolish all autonomous local governments serving populations of fewer than 3,000, thereby reducing the number of local governments in Bavaria from more than 7,000 to less than 2,000. Based on interviews, surveys, and statistical research, this study chronicles fifteen communities and their challenges, developments, and social changes from post-1945 up to the present. While this book explores the decline of the iconic village community, it also reveals the survival of medieval towns in a contemporary world, and despite the modern desire for comprehensive and well-integrated services, there remains a seemingly perennial appeal of small town and village life.</p>
<p> List of Figures<br> Acknowledgements</p>
<p> <strong>Introduction</strong></p>
<ul>
<li> The Plan for this Book</li>
</ul>
<p> <strong>Chapter 1. Changing Villages and Small Places in Bavaria</strong></p>
<ul>
<li> Contemporary Social Change</li>
<li> Population Trends</li>
<li> Stages of Community Development</li>
<li> The Transformation of Agriculture</li>
</ul>
<p> <strong>Chapter 2. The Small Town or Village Community</strong></p>
<ul>
<li> Secularization and Community Life</li>
<li> The Elementary School and the Community</li>
<li> Social Groups and Festivals  in West Middle Franconia</li>
<li> Economic Enterprises of the Community</li>
<li> The Future of Small Places</li>
</ul>
<p> <strong>Chapter 3. Planning Local Territorial Reform</strong></p>
<ul>
<li> The Era of Reforms</li>
<li> Federal Initiatives Toward <em>Raumordnung</em></li>
<li> Bavaria Tackles Territorial Reorganization</li>
<li> Regional Planning and Administrative Reform</li>
<li> The <em>Kreisreform</em></li>
<li> The Independent City and Hinterland Reforms</li>
<li> The Communal Territorial Reform</li>
</ul>
<p> <strong>Chapter 4. The Implementation of the Reform</strong></p>
<ul>
<li> Implementation of the Local Reform</li>
<li> The Reform in Middle Franconia</li>
<li> Patterns of Reaction to Bavaria’s Reform</li>
<li> Toward a Modern, Functional Society</li>
</ul>
<p> <strong>Chapter 5. No Town is an Island Local Government in the West German System</strong></p>
<ul>
<li> Federalism in the Basic Law</li>
<li> The Changing Federal Financial Constitution</li>
<li> Cooperative Federalism or <em>Politikverflechtung</em>?</li>
<li> The Future Role of the Communes</li>
<li> The <em>Laäender</em> and the European Union</li>
</ul>
<p> <strong>Chapter 6. Conclusion</strong></p>
<ul>
<li> Mini-Towns and Micro-Communes</li>
<li> Revisiting Wolframs-Eschenbach</li>
<li> Re-interviewing the Bürgermeisters</li>
<li> Small Town and Village in Bavaria</li>
</ul>
<p> <strong>Appendix:</strong> Tables A1–A15</p>
<p> Selected Bibliography<br> Index</p>
<p> <strong>Introduction</strong></p>
<ul>
<li> The Plan for this Book</li>
</ul>
<p> <strong>Chapter 1. Changing Villages and Small Places in Bavaria</strong></p>
<ul>
<li> Contemporary Social Change</li>
<li> Population Trends</li>
<li> Stages of Community Development</li>
<li> The Transformation of Agriculture</li>
</ul>
<p> <strong>Chapter 2. The Small Town or Village Community</strong></p>
<ul>
<li> Secularization and Community Life</li>
<li> The Elementary School and the Community</li>
<li> Social Groups and Festivals  in West Middle Franconia</li>
<li> Economic Enterprises of the Community</li>
<li> The Future of Small Places</li>
</ul>
<p> <strong>Chapter 3. Planning Local Territorial Reform</strong></p>
<ul>
<li> The Era of Reforms</li>
<li> Federal Initiatives Toward <em>Raumordnung</em></li>
<li> Bavaria Tackles Territorial Reorganization</li>
<li> Regional Planning and Administrative Reform</li>
<li> The <em>Kreisreform</em></li>
<li> The Independent City and Hinterland Reforms</li>
<li> The Communal Territorial Reform</li>
</ul>
<p> <strong>Chapter 4. The Implementation of the Reform</strong></p>
<ul>
<li> Implementation of the Local Reform</li>
<li> The Reform in Middle Franconia</li>
<li> Patterns of Reaction to Bavaria’s Reform</li>
<li> Toward a Modern, Functional Society</li>
</ul>
<p> <strong>Chapter 5. No Town is an Island Local Government in the West German System</strong></p>
<ul>
<li> Federalism in the Basic Law</li>
<li> The Changing Federal Financial Constitution</li>
<li> Cooperative Federalism or <em>Politikverflechtung</em>?</li>
<li> The Future Role of the Communes</li>
<li> The <em>Laäender</em> and the European Union</li>
</ul>
<p> <strong>Chapter 6. Conclusion</strong></p>
<ul>
<li> Mini-Towns and Micro-Communes</li>
<li> Revisiting Wolframs-Eschenbach</li>
<li> Re-interviewing the Bürgermeisters</li>
<li> Small Town and Village in Bavaria</li>
</ul>
<p> <strong>Appendix:</strong> Tables A1–A15</p>
<p> Selected Bibliography<br> Index</p>
<p> <strong>Peter H. Merkl</strong><strong> </strong>is Professor Emeritus of Political Science at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He has published extensively on comparative and German government and politics, in particular the origin of the West German Republic and German unification. He also edited a series of volumes on German politics.</p>
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