Pragmatic Municipalism
Privatization and Remunicipalisation in the US
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6302244 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Mildred E Warner (0000-0002-0109-338X, Cornell University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2024 |
| Volume | 50 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 677-695 |
| Publication date | 2024-07-03 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Local Government Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0300-3930 • E-ISSN: 1743-9388 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/03003930.2022.2162884 |
| OpenAlex | W4313592230 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 21 |
| References cited | 76 |
At the local government level in the US, the process of privatisation has been a dynamic one of experimentation with market delivery and return to public delivery when privatisation fails to deliver. National survey data show what drives this experimentation are pragmatic concerns with service cost and quality. Service and market characteristics, local government capacity and regulatory framework matter. In contrast to current international debates about the potential of remunicipalization to be a political reassertion of the public sector, for US local governments it is primarily a process of pragmatic municipalism. While some shifts in private finance and state regulatory environment favour private actors at the expense of local government, federal investments since COVID-19 provide funding and policy preference for maintaining a public role
Business · Economics · Political economy · Political science · Local Government Finance and Decentralization · Public Administration · Public Policy and Administration Research · Public-Private Partnership Projects
How places are contesting the privatisation of local public services
Remunicipalisation and the prospects for more equitable place-based development
Mobilising for local energy democracy in the United States
Austerity Urbanism or Pragmatic Municipalism—Evidence from the Effects of Stay-at-Home Orders on Property Tax Abatements
Assembling Community Wealth Building policies in Scotland
From the Great Recession to the Post‐Covid 19 Pandemic U.S. Municipal Fiscal Condition
Statecraft at the frontier of capitalism
(De)Financing remunicipalisation
Politicising proximity
Modeling political mimetic isomorphism versus economic and quality factors in local government privatizations
Does political ideology still matter? A meta‐analysis of government contracting decisions
Pragmatic remunicipalisation across diverse geographies in the US
Remunicipalisation and resistance to privatisation of local water services
Reversing privatization
Does Outsourcing Reduce Public Scrutiny Toward Elected Officials
Insourcing public services
Extent and dynamics of the remunicipalisation of public services
Political and financial factors motivating privatisation, its reverse and corporatisation of municipal waste collection
Why and how often do authorities remunicipalise urban public transport? The case of France
The contested politics of de-privatisation and the shifting terrain of the local state
Neoliberal urban segregation and property tax
Privatization and Intermunicipal Contracting
Insourcing and Outsourcing
Re-municipalization of public services
Contracting for Government Services
Reinventing Government
Privatization and intermunicipal cooperation in US local government services
Water pricing and affordability in the US
Austerity in the city
Marketisation, public services and the city
Pushing austerity
Challenging austerity under the Covid-19 state
Shrinking local autonomy
Water supply
Reasserting the role of the state in the healthcare sector
The failure of water utilities privatization
Reversing privatization, rebalancing government reform
Privatization and regulation of public services
Reasserting the public in public service delivery
Reasserting the state in Viet Nam Health Care and the logics of market-Leninism
Public planning with business delivery of excellent urban public transport
Pittsburgh's translocal social movement
Ownership and sustainability of Italian water utilities
Open questions for public water management
Public versus private water delivery, remunicipalization and water tariffs
From pragmatic to politicized? The future of water remunicipalization in the United States
Water systems in California
Structure, regulation, and pricing of water in the United States
Multifaceted intra-city water system arrangements in California
Water and sanitation governance between austerity and financialization
Privatization
Local Government Restructuring
Remunicipalisation, Mutating Neoliberalism, and the Conjuncture
New Municipalism and the State
Inter‐municipal Cooperation and Costs
Pragmatic Municipalism
Re-municipalization of local public services
Remunicipalization
The Rise of State Preemption Laws in Response to Local Policy Innovation
Outsourcing Public Service Delivery
Pragmatic Municipalism
The Political Underpinnings of Privatization
Political and Institutional Explanations for Increasing Re-municipalization
Municipal Service Provision Choices within a Metropolitan Area
Who votes for mayor? Evidence from midsized American cities
The communicative policy maker revisited
What have we learned from the last three decades of empirical studies on factors driving local privatisation
Contracting dynamics and unionisation
Can alternative service delivery save cities after the Great Recession? Barriers to privatisation and cooperation
Beyond the market versus planning dichotomy
Water privatisation in France and Germany
Privatisation, contracting-out and inter-municipal cooperation
Contracting or Public Delivery? The Importance of Service, Market, and Management Characteristics
Transaction Costs and Institutional Explanations for Government Service Production Decisions
Privatization and Its Reverse
The Proper Scope of Government
A Public Management for All Seasons
The Impact of Collective Bargaining on Management
| Unique citing works | 21 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 7 |
| Citation span | 2023 - 2026 (4) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 21 |