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Re-municipalization of public services: trend or hype?

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  • Judith Clifton
  • Mildred E. Warner
  • Raymond Gradus
  • Germà Bel

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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.

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  • Judith Clifton & Mildred E. Warner & Raymond Gradus & Germà Bel, 2021. "Re-municipalization of public services: trend or hype?," Journal of Economic Policy Reform, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 24(3), pages 293-304, July.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:jpolrf:v:24:y:2021:i:3:p:293-304
    DOI: 10.1080/17487870.2019.1691344
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    1. Kozera, Agnieszka & Satoła, Łukasz & Standar, Aldona & Dworakowska-Raj, Małgorzata, 2022. "Regional diversity of low-carbon investment support from EU funds in the 2014–2020 financial perspective based on the example of Polish municipalities," Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, Elsevier, vol. 168(C).
    2. Germà Bel & Thomas Elston, 2023. ""Disentangling the separate and combined effects of privatization and cooperation on local government service delivery"," IREA Working Papers 202311, University of Barcelona, Research Institute of Applied Economics, revised Oct 2023.

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