TY - JOUR
TI - Organisational Choice
AU - Ladner, A.
AU - Keuffer, N.
AU - Baldersheim, H.
AU - Hlepas, N.
AU - Swianiewicz, P.
AU - Steyvers, K.
AU - Navarro, C.
JO - Governance and Public Management
PY - 2019
VL - null
TODO - null
SP - 151-173
PB - Palgrave Macmillan Ltd.
SN - null
TODO - 10.1007/978-3-319-95642-8_6
TODO - null
TODO - This chapter looks at the organisational autonomy of local government seen as the possibilities municipalities have to choose their political institutions and to organise their local administration. In some countries municipalities can decide on elements of their electoral system or on the form and the size of their local executive, but in most of the countries these parameters are set by national legislation. As for the local administration, most countries have the freedom to hire their own staff, fix the salaries of their employees, choose their organisational structure and establish legal entities and municipal enterprises. There are, however, also countries where the local administration is more directly organised and administered by the central state. The development across time is not particularly spectacular. If there have been changes in the degree of organisational autonomy, most of them took place in the 1990s. There are, however, a considerable number of countries, in which reforms specifically aim at increasing organisational autonomy. © 2019, The Author(s).
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