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What is Functional, Overlapping, and Competing Jurisdictions

Handbook of Research on Strategies for Local E-Government Adoption and Implementation: Comparative Studies
A concept within federalist economics. Jurisdictions are made up of spatially and functionally overlapping organizational jurisdictional units which also possess political organs. Each organization fulfills a specific function, although several organizations providing the same service may compete within the same territory. They compete with each other and possess political democratic legitimacy; the closest practical approximation to such a system might be school districts or transportation authorities in some areas of the United States which cross state or county boundaries. However, these authorities to not compete with each other in the same territory.
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Local Level Structural Change and E Government in Germany
Tino Schuppan (Institute for eGovernment, Germany)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-60566-282-4.ch002
Abstract
This chapter addresses the link between e-government, organizational networks related to it, and the possibilities for structural reform of local-level public administration. In the general discussion, e government is often reduced to the electronic delivery of services. However, the most important potential of e-government can only be realized if new ICT solutions are used for inter-organizational network-oriented work structures. Examples of various forms of such networks exist worldwide and are commonly used to increase citizen orientation and/or to improve efficiency. However, the fact that these networks can have a deeper impact upon the organization of the traditional state is often neglected. Even the macro-organization of a state may be affected; this will be the focus of this chapter. It aims to analyze and explore whether new ICT-enabled networks make it possible to change the size of an administrative jurisdiction or even eliminate levels of government. Using the German situation as an example, the main argument of this chapter is that in the e-government era, the amalgamation of municipalities is no longer an adequate reform policy.
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