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])

该项目探讨了城市委员会作为现代决策组织的一种特殊形式的起源和发展。本书将对从威廉帝国到魏玛共和国的三个特定时期（1853-1866; 1890-1910; 1924-1930）的案例（柏林、汉堡和埃森）进行研究，以勾勒出决策与委员会之间的联系。该项目将说明委员会成立的条件，分析其做法和方法，并审查其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.