Verwaltung und Öffentlichkeit in Preußen

Modern bureaucratic administration is in many ways a product of the officialization, centralization and juridification of administrative communication. In the early 19th century, the publication of government actions by the administration changed considerably. Concrete administrative procedures were developed regulating the communications between the administration and the citizens in a specific manner. Using Prussia as an example, Pascale Cancik investigates the role of law for these developments in the early 19th century. Techniques, media and procedures, which are still in use today, have been developed with the aid of early administrative law and the law of administrative proceedings. Contrary to what is sometimes said, these developments are not linked exclusively to the constitutional ideas of publicity or democracy.