Sub-Municipal Governance in Europe: Decentralization Beyond the Municipal Tier

✍ Scribed by Nikolaos-Komninos Hlepas,Norbert Kersting,Sabine Kuhlmann,Pawel Swianiewicz,Filipe Teles (eds.)

• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• Year: 2018
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 276
• Series: Governance and Public Management
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

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.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter ....Pages i-xii
Introduction: Decentralization Beyond the Municipal Tier (Nikos Hlepas, Norbert Kersting, Sabine Kuhlmann, Pawel Swianiewicz, Filipe Teles)....Pages 1-24
Reaching Out to Sub-Municipal Decentralization: An Ongoing Challenge in Belgium (Ellen Wayenberg, Trui Steen)....Pages 25-39
The “Little Town-Halls” in the Czech Republic: An Unexploited Potential of Functional Decentralization (Jakub Lysek)....Pages 41-68
Decentralisation, Democratisation and Delivery: English Sub-municipal Devolution (Colin Copus)....Pages 69-91
Sub-municipal Units in Germany: Municipal and Metropolitan Districts (Norbert Kersting, Sabine Kuhlmann)....Pages 93-118
Between Identity Politics and the Politics of Scale: Sub-municipal Governance in Greece (Nikos Hlepas)....Pages 119-143
Sub-municipal Arrangements in Norway: District System in Oslo (Jan Erling Klausen)....Pages 145-165
New Experiments of Maintenance of Old Traditions? Dual System of Sub-municipal Units in Poland (Paweł Swianiewicz)....Pages 167-192
Deeply Rooted but Still Striving for a Role: The Portuguese Freguesias Under Reform (Antonio F. Tavares, Filipe Teles)....Pages 193-209
Sub-Municipal Units in Slovenia: Experiences from the Past and Policy Advice for the Future (Irena Bačlija Brajnik, Roman Lavtar)....Pages 211-226
Rural and Urban Sub-municipal Governance in Spain: The Contrasting Worlds of Lilliput and Brobdingnag (Carmen Navarro, Esther Pano)....Pages 227-246
Conclusions (Nikos Hlepas, Pawel Swianiewicz, Norbert Kersting)....Pages 247-260
Back Matter ....Pages 261-268

✦ Subjects

Public Policy