To corporatize or not to corporatize (and if so, how?)

McDonald, David A.

doi:10.1016/j.jup.2016.01.002

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“…Following evolving concepts of the political economy of electricity (Baker and Burton, 2018), we conceive of the electricity sector as a site of 'struggle' over the governance and ownership of generation, distribution and transmission; and the allocation and access to electricity services (Gentle, 2009;MacDonald, 2016). The concept of struggle further relates to the way in which disruptive technologies will reconfigure electricity as a networked infrastructure and how interactions between technological change and established configurations of political, social and economic power should be accounted for.…”

Section: A Political Economy Of Electricity: From Monopoly To Disruptionmentioning

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Tensions in the transition: The politics of electricity distribution in South Africa

Baker

Phillips

2018

Environment and Planning C: Politics and Space

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This paper argues that the distribution of electricity represents an important yet neglected aspect of the politics of energy transitions. In recent years, South Africa's electricity sector has seen the introduction of new actors and technologies, including the 'prosumer' (producer-consumer) of electricity and small-scale embedded generation from roof-top solar photovoltaics. We analyse these recent developments in historical context and consider implications for contemporary planning, regulation and ownership of electricity. We find that the reconfiguration of electricity distribution faces significant political and economic challenges that are rooted in the country's socio-economic and racial inequalities and its heavy dependence on coal-fired power. First small-scale embedded generation offers potential opportunities for affordable, decentralised, low-carbon energy, yet disruption to the coal-powered electric grid and the monopoly of South Africa's electricity utility has been minimal to date. Second, small-scale embedded generation creates tensions between equitable and low-carbon energy transitions and threatens critical revenue from the country's wealthy consumers that cross-subsidises electricity services for the poor and other municipal public services. Third, the South African experience queries common assumptions about the democratic potential of decentralised governance. Fourth, South Africa provides insights of global significance into how political institutions have responded to social and technological drivers of change, in a context where planning and regulation have followed rather than led infrastructural developments. While energy policy remains unresponsive or resistant to social and technological change, there remain significant political, economic, technical and regulatory challenges to a just and inclusive energy transition.

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Section: A Political Economy Of Electricity: From Monopoly To Disruptionmentioning

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Tensions in the transition: The politics of electricity distribution in South Africa

Baker

Phillips

2018

Environment and Planning C: Politics and Space

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“…This "corporatization" wave has raised much debate in the literature as to its influence on the public character or behaviour of the entity (Andrews et al 2019). So, for example, the World Bank has specified that corporatization is a means to prepare an entity for privatization , whilst other scholars stress there are different ways to corporatize, and that this can follow either a "progressive" or "neoliberal" model (McDonald 2016;Cruz et al 2014). Hence, the creation of a municipal corporation could be part of reverse privatization, as a partial step back toward more public control, or it could be a step towards privatization: it depends on the case under study.…”

Section: Re-municipalization: Unpacking the Conceptmentioning

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Re-municipalization of public services: trend or hype?

Clifton

Warner

Gradus³

et al. 2019

Journal of Economic Policy Reform

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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. Policy Highlights• Re-municipalization is as an important trend in public service delivery. • Re-municipalization is primarily a pragmatic process of market management. • Case studies show remunicipalization can be politically transformative.Since the 1980s, the scholarship analysing the ongoing reform of public services has overwhelmingly focused on the shift of these services to the private sector, that is, on their privatization. Attention, above all, has been paidin this by now vast body of literatureto the determinants (Clifton, Comín, and Díaz-

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“…Asimismo, la prioridad dada a los resultados financieros pone a la orden del día una tendencia creciente hacia la mercantilización de los bienes y los servicios provistos por la entidad corporatizada y la creciente adopción de precios de mercado. En este escenario, se troca el carácter de ciudadano por el de consumidor de un servicio o bien, disociando su acceso del contexto y distanciándolo de cualquier tipo de derecho social que pueda atribuírsele (MCDONALD, 2016).…”

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“…Particularmente, se argumenta que la continuidad de la titularidad jurídica estatal de una empresa no imposibilita la implementación de políticas ligadas al neoliberalismo. En este sentido, se considera que los desarrollos en torno a la noción de 'corporatización neoliberal' (MCDONALD, 2015(MCDONALD, , 2016 pueden brindar algunas guías acerca de la lógica de la orientación de las políticas propuestas en los últimos años en Argentina, así como de sus implicaciones futuras.…”

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De La Privatización a La Corporatización Neoliberal: Tendencias Recientes De Las Políticas Para Las Empresas Públicas en El Caso Argentino (2015-2018)

Yañez

2019

REAd. Rev. eletrôn. adm. (Porto Alegre)

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RESUMEN El objetivo de este trabajo es analizar las tendencias recientes de las políticas para las empresas públicas argentinas y su relación con los principios y el proyecto político del neoliberalismo. En este sentido, se presenta una revisión de las políticas de las últimas décadas para el sector y se retoma la noción de corporatización neoliberal como referencia para estudiar el proceso en curso. El argumento desarrollado indica que la continuidad de la titularidad estatal de una empresa no impide la implementación de políticas ligadas con el neoliberalismo. A partir de una aproximación cualitativa, se lleva adelante un análisis de diferentes documentos oficiales y otras fuentes secundarias. Los resultados de este trabajo sugieren una convergencia entre las políticas analizadas y los lineamientos típicos de los procesos de corporatización neoliberal.

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To corporatize or not to corporatize (and if so, how?)

Cited by 61 publications

References 42 publications

Tensions in the transition: The politics of electricity distribution in South Africa

Tensions in the transition: The politics of electricity distribution in South Africa

Re-municipalization of public services: trend or hype?

De La Privatización a La Corporatización Neoliberal: Tendencias Recientes De Las Políticas Para Las Empresas Públicas en El Caso Argentino (2015-2018)

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