The Leipzig Model Myth or Reality?

by Garcia-Zamor, Jean-Claude

• ISBN13: 9780761838906
• ISBN10: 0761838902
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2007-10-16
• Publisher: UPA

Summary

The Leipzig Model describes how civil servants in Leipzig, a city in the former East Germany, cope with the challenges stemming from the uneven economic conditions that continue to exist after the reunification. The analysis reviews a series of recent successes achieved by the managerial leaders of Leipzig who have been able to compete and excel in comparison with civil servants in Western Germany and the bureaucracies of several other European Union countries. The book also investigates the local "civic culture" that is behind the driving forces of the city's leaders. Leipzig's "local political culture" is outlined and its key elements are defined. In addition to examining the professional strength of the city's civil servants, the book analyzes the strategies being used by the mayor and city managers of Leipzig to achieve such successes and compares these strategies to some current organizational theories and models.

Author Biography

Jean-Claude Garcia-Zamor is a professor of public administration at Florida International University.

Table of Contents

List of acronyms
Acknowledgments
Introduction
The Bureaucratic Transition	p. 7
Politics and Human Rights	p. 33
Ethics in a Society in Transformation	p. 55
The City of Leipzig	p. 73
The Structure of Leipzig City Government	p. 107
The Leipzig Model of Management	p. 119
Conclusions	p. 135
Statistical Information on Leipzig	p. 141
Leipzig City Council in 2005 (parties and number of seats)	p. 151
Excerpts of Twenty-Four Interviews	p. 152
Excerpts from a Newspaper Series on the Leipzig Model	p. 265
References	p. 277
Index	p. 289
About the Author	p. 299
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