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1: Introduction: Decentralization Beyond the Municipal Tier; Nikos Hlepas, Norbert Kersting, Sabine Kuhlmann, Pawel Swianiewicz and Filipe Teles.- 2: Reaching out to sub-municipal decentralization: an ongoing challenge in Belgium; Ellen Wayenberg and Trui Steen.- 3: The “Little Town-Halls” in The Czech Republic: An Unexploited Potential of Functional Decentralization; Jakub Lysek.- 4: Decentralisation, Democratisation and Delivery: English Sub-Municipal Devolution; Colin Copus.- 5: Sub-Municipal Units in Germany: Municipal and Metropolitan Districts; Norbert Kersting and Sabine Kuhlmann.- 6: Between identity politics and the politics of scale: Sub-municipal Governance in Greece; Nikos Hlepas.- 7: Sub-municipal arrangements in Norway: District system in Oslo; Jan Erling Klausen.- 8: New Experiments of Maintenance of Old Traditions? Dual System of Sub-Municipal Units in Poland; Paweł Swianiewicz.- 9: Deeply rooted but still striving for a role: the Portuguese Freguesias under reform; Antonio F. Tavares and Filipe Teles.- 10: Sub-municipal units in Slovenia: Experiences from the past and policy advice for the future; Irena Bačlija Brajnik and Roman Lavtar.- 11: Rural and Urban Sub-Municipal Governance in Spain. The contrasting worlds of Lilliput and Brobdingnag; Carmen Navarro and Esther Pano.- 12: Conclusions; Nikos Hlepas, Pawel Swianiewicz and Norbert Kersting.