Remunicipalisation Revisited: Long-Term Trends in the Provision of Local Public Services in Germany

De-privatisation and remunicipalisation of urban services through the pendulum swing: Evidence from Germany

“…Findings from our investigation support those provided by Bönker et al (2016) Findings from our study support the argument that environmental conflicts arise when treating fictious commodities as mere commodities, leaving them being governed by market forces. Across Germany, different stakeholders at different levels made significant technical and institutional efforts to address issues related to privatised services, and to move towards alternative strategies.…”

Debate: Corporatization in local government— the need for a comparative and multi-disciplinary research approach

“…The reference list in an article by Erlingsson et al (2015) illustrates this pointthe majority of these works in that list were published in Swedish. In Germany, municipal corporatization seems to have attracted considerable attention among local government scholars, resulting in several publications of which many are written in German (see, for instance, the reference list in Bönker et al, 2016). The situation is probably similar in other non-English speaking countries.…”

Public Administration and Public Management Research in Europe: Traditions and Trends

“…In order to retain or regain steering capacity, local governments have been creating appropriate "steering" units. Furthermore, since the 2010s municipalities have begun to reverse the outsourcing of service provisions, by re-internalising into municipal hands or by re-purchasing the previously sold assets (see Bönker et al 2016;Wollmann 2016). A similar trend can be observed in the Dutch central government, where following critical reports by among others the Court of Audit, plans have been implemented to re-centralise ZBOs or at least increase the governmental control over them (Pollitt and Bouckaert 2011, 292).…”