Clifton, J;
Warner, ME;
Gradus, R;
Bel, G;
(2019)
Re-municipalization of public services: trend or hype?
Journal of Economic Policy Reform
10.1080/17487870.2019.1691344.
(In press).
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Abstract
Re-municipalization is part of a broader set of reverse privatization reforms. We argue the term re-municipalization lacks conceptual clarity, confusing municipal level reversals from national ones, new service delivery from reversals, and mixed market positions from full public control. This conceptual confusion makes measurement of re-municipalization difficult. While more case studies are being discovered, quantitative time series studies do not show remunicipalization is increasing. Much case study based research argues remunicipalization is politically transformative, but quantitative research generally finds re-municipalization to be part of a pragmatic market management process, a position confirmed by the papers in this special issue.
| Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Title: | Re-municipalization of public services: trend or hype? |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1080/17487870.2019.1691344 |
| Publisher version: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/17487870.2019.1691344 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | This version is the author accepted manuscript. For information on re-use, please refer to the publisher’s terms and conditions. |
| Keywords: | Re-municipalization, Public Services, Reverse privatization, SOLID-WASTE, PRIVATIZATION, WATER, US, REVERSE, REMUNICIPALISATION, ENTERPRISES, COLLECTION, DYNAMICS, MARKET |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH > Faculty of S&HS UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH > Faculty of S&HS > Dept of Political Science |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10123060 |
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