Re-municipalization of local public services: incidence, causes and prospects
| Author | Raymond Gradus,Daniel Albalate,Germà Bel,Eoin Reeves |
| Published date | 01 September 2021 |
| Date | 01 September 2021 |
| DOI | http://doi.org/10.1177/00208523211006455 |
Introduction
International
Review of
Administrative
Sciences
Re-municipalization
of local public
services: incidence,
causes and prospects
Daniel Albalate
Universitat de Barcelona, Spain
Germa
`Bel
Universitat de Barcelona, Spain
Raymond Gradus
Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Eoin Reeves
University of Limerick, Ireland
Abstract
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. The reversal of privatization measures is not an entirely
new phenomenon. In the US, for example, returning public services to in-house pro-
duction has been a long-standing feature of ‘pragmatic public management’. However,
many cases of re-municipalization that have occurred since the early 2000s represent a
distinctive shift from earlier privatization policies. High-profile cases in cities including
Paris and Hamburg have thrust re-municipalization into the limelight as they have
followed public campaigns motivated by dissatisfaction with the results of privatization
and a desire to restore public control of vital services, such as water and energy. Just as
the reform of public services towards privatization spawned a vast body of scholarship,
the current re-municipalization phenomenon is increasingly attracting the attention of
scholars from a number of disciplinary perspectives. Thearticles contained in this
Corresponding author:
Germa
`Bel, Universitat de Barcelona, John Maynard Keynes 1–11, Barcelona 08034, Spain.
Email: gbel@ub.edu
International Review of Administrative
Sciences
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2021, Vol. 87(3) 419–424
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