Sub-municipal governance in Europe : decentralization beyond the municipal tier
Nikolaos-Komnenos Hlépas (Editor), Norbert Kersting (Editor), Sabine Kuhlmann (Editor), Paweł Swianiewicz (Editor), Filipe Teles (Editor)
This book explores sub-municipal units (SMU) role in decision making, decentralized institutional innovation, social innovation and, in rural areas, service delivery. Focusing on fourteen European countries, the book examines the impact of political cultures, administrative traditions and local government systems on the functioning of the SMUs. An under-explored topic in the literature, this book provides a comprehensive, comparative European, thematically broad, descriptive book on sub-municipal governance.#xE032
eBook, English, 2018
Palgrave Macmillan, Cham, Switzerland, 2018