TY - GEN N2 - 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; AB - 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; T1 - Sub-municipal governance in Europe :decentralization beyond the municipal tier / AU - Hlépas, Nikolaos-Komnenos, AU - Kersting, Norbert, AU - Kuhlmann, Sabine, AU - Swianiewicz, Paweł, AU - Teles, Filipe, CN - JS3000.2 ID - 825806 KW - Municipal government SN - 9783319647258 SN - 3319647253 TI - Sub-municipal governance in Europe :decentralization beyond the municipal tier / LK - https://univsouthin.idm.oclc.org/login?url=http://link.springer.com/10.1007/978-3-319-64725-8 UR - https://univsouthin.idm.oclc.org/login?url=http://link.springer.com/10.1007/978-3-319-64725-8 ER -