Prussian Civil Servant Bureaucracy and Local Self-Government: Village Decision-Making in the Prussian Province of Westphalia in the 19th and early 20th centuries (C15 [C05])

该项目考察了城市委员会作为现代性中一种特殊的决策组织形式的起源和发展。三个案例研究(柏林、汉堡和埃森)在选定的时间段(1853-1866；1890-1910；1924-1930)从威廉明帝国到魏玛共和国，将被研究，以勾勒出决策和委员会之间的联系。该项目将说明成立这些委员会的条件，分析它们的做法和方法，并审查它们在决策过程中的职能。

The project examines the origin and development of urban committees as a particular form of decision-making organisation in modernity. Three case studies (Berlin, Hamburg and Essen) over selected time periods (1853-1866; 1890-1910; 1924-1930) from the Wilhelmine Empire to the Weimar Republic will be studied in order to sketch the connection between decision-making and committees. The project will illustrate the conditions under which the committees were created, analyse their practices and methods and examine their functions in the process of decision-making.