englischA municipality may charge a water supplier a concession fee for its special use of the public roads by laying and operating pipeline grids. Although small in-house municipal undertakings (Regiebetriebe) and operations (Eigenbetriebe) account for the greatest portion of the water suppliers, a [...]

englischCities and municipalities take a stand on current issues, adopt positions and pass bylaws as an expression of their self-government. The "felt" self-concern stands in a tense relationship to the legal self-government competence. The demarcation of the (permissible) local political mandate [...]

englischThe right concerning municipal financial minimum entitlements is practically controversial and dogmatically unsettled. The work structures the various aspects of this subject, which is highly relevant for municipal budgets, and systematically illuminates the constitutional content. Is the [...]

englischThe tasks which municipal election officials have to fulfil have developed in line with the significant increase in the tasks of local authorities in general over the past few years. However, the basic salary conditions for municipal election officials and the compensation they receive for [...]

englischCan a municipal enterprise, which acts legally in accordance with local by-laws, be a public contractor within the framework of procurement law at the same time?

Municipal enterprises can be active on the market in two capacities: as service providers and as contracting entities. Whether [...]

englischCooperatives are highly active in sectors of municipal service provision. Their activities in this respect are not limited to traditional fields (social, cultural and economic), but can also be observed in innovative new areas such as providing internet access through a nationwide broadband [...]

englischWhat is cooperation? What are the statutory requirements for cooperations of municipal companies? What happens legally in case of the execution of inadmissible cooperations and what are the corresponding lawful rights of the local supervisory offices? This book deals with these questions by [...]

englischCitizen participation ranks high again on the political agenda. It is demanded that citizens should be more extensively involved in state decision-making processes. At the same time interactive communication and web-based participation tools become increasingly important.

The thesis examines [...]

Demographischer Wandel einerseits und zunehmende Aufgaben andererseits erzwingen bei finanzieller Notlage kommunale Reformen. Vielfach antworten die Landesgesetzgeber auf diesen Reformbedarf mit immer größeren kommunalen Einheiten. Um dieser „Flucht in die Einheitsgemeinde“ entgegenzuwirken, [...]

Abundanzumlagen sind als „horizontalste“ Elemente des kommunalen Finanzausgleichs ein Mittel zur Umkehr kommunaler Finanzkraftunterschiede. Die Arbeit stellt die erste Untersuchung dessen unter Beachtung neuester Literatur und Rechtsprechung dar und ist makrojuristisch angelegt. Zunächst werden die [...]