Digitalization of Local Governments in Germany: The Medium-Sized Municipality

This book provides an in-depth analysis of the digital policy of medium-sized municipalities in Germany. Mostly ignored by empirical research, the size of these municipalities has been characterized both as an advantage and a limitation for digitalization, with scholars alternately emphasizing agility and shorter administrative paths on the one hand, and the lack of capacity and economies of scale on the other. Utilising a mixed methods approach combining process-tracing and web scraping, t...