Two Centuries of Local Autonomy

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Backhaus, Jürgen Georg (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: New York, NY : Springer New York, 2012.
• Series: The European Heritage in Economics and the Social Sciences ; 13
• Subjects: Political science.; Political Science and International Relations.; Political Science.

One of the last Prussian Reforms during the Napoleonic Era was the constitution of local autonomy for the cities. Proof of its lasting importance is that it was the cities that carried out the deficit-based employment policies of the early 1930s also had to carry the burden of a democratic reconstit...