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Municipal Entities As Subjects Of Municipal Communication

open access: yes, 2016
Malyj Aleksandr Fedorovich   +2 more
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Re-municipalization of local public services: incidence, causes and prospects [PDF]

open access: yesInternational Review of Administrative Sciences, 2021
Since the turn of the century a global trend of re-municipalization has emerged with cities reversing earlier privatizations and returning infrastructure and public service delivery to the public sector.
Germa Bel   +2 more
exaly   +8 more sources

Government choice between contract termination and contract expiration in re-municipalization: a case of historical recurrence? [PDF]

open access: yesInternational Review of Administrative Sciences, 2021
Since the early 2000s, the terms ‘re-municipalization’ and ‘reverse privatization’ entered the lexicon as several examples emerged of governments taking ownership of assets and services that had previously been privatized or outsourced.
Germa Bel   +2 more
exaly   +3 more sources

Re-municipalization of public services: trend or hype? [PDF]

open access: yesJournal of Economic Policy Reform, 2021
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 ...
Judith Clifton   +2 more
exaly   +3 more sources

Are we there yet? Understanding the implementation of re-municipalization decisions and their duration [PDF]

open access: yesPublic Management Review, 2022
Studies of the drivers of the decision to re-municipalize have increased recently, but research on its implementation is very scarce. We analyse how service characteristics and institutional factors influence the implementation of re-municipalization ...
Germa Bel   +2 more
exaly   +5 more sources

Dispossession by municipalization: Property, pipelines, and divisions of power in settler colonial Canada [PDF]

open access: yesEnvironment and Planning C: Politics and Space, 2022
In Canada, Indigenous activists and scholars critique municipalization as a threefold process that subverts Indigenous authority to the state, then delegates forms of state authority to Indigenous peoples, and concludes by asserting that delegated ...
Jeremy Schmidt
exaly   +2 more sources

The “Privatization” of Municipal Debt

SSRN Electronic Journal, 2023
We study the determinants of local governments' reliance on bank loans using granular data from the Federal Reserve. Governments that are larger, rely on stable revenue sources, or have higher spending relative to revenues are more likely to borrow from banks. About a third of governments in the top revenue quintile have obtained bank loans since 2011,
Ivanov, Ivan T., Zimmermann, Tom
openaire   +4 more sources

Political and Institutional Explanations for Increasing Re-municipalization

open access: yesUrban Affairs Review, 2020
This article analyzes shifts in the delivery mode of waste collection in Dutch municipalities between 1999 and 2014. In approximately half of these entities, shifts took place, with 60% toward outside production and 40% toward inside production.
Raymond Gradus, Tjerk Budding
exaly   +2 more sources

Negotiating the public: re-municipalization, water politics and social reproduction

open access: yesGlobalizations
In the context of the global wave of privatization of local public services, remunicipalization has emerged as a viable policy alternative, broadly understood as the return to public management.
Gemma Gasseau
exaly   +2 more sources

Municipalities

2023
Abstract Municipalities are of great importance in Swiss politics and society. They provide a large part of essential public services and allow voters to have a direct-democratic influence on political decisions. In a comparative perspective, Swiss municipalities are remarkable since they carry a considerable amount of autonomy, and they
Andreas Ladner, Nicolas Keuffer
openaire   +1 more source

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