Understanding European drinking water services remunicipalisation: A state of literature analysis

Turri, Vanessa Mascia

doi:10.1016/j.cities.2021.103437

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“…Studies along these lines have also studied and interacted with practical examples, such as water remunicipalization in Naples and elsewhere (Mattei, 2013;Carrozza and Fantini, 2016;Popartan et al, 2020;Turri, 2022); civic assets management programs in Barcelona (Pera and Bianchi, 2021); BIP/ZIP urban regeneration programs in Lisbon (Patti, 2017); community land trusts in England (Thompson, 2018) and elsewhere (Bunce, 2018). New Municipalism has been studied as an emergent political program around the idea of expanding such publiccommons-partnerships as a governance paradigm for the city (Thompson, 2021).…”

Section: Editorial On the Research Topic Social Movements And Sustain...mentioning

confidence: 99%

Editorial: Social movements and sustainable urban commons governance

Kip

Schöll²

2022

Front. Sustain. Cities

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Section: Editorial On the Research Topic Social Movements And Sustain...mentioning

confidence: 99%

Editorial: Social movements and sustainable urban commons governance

Kip

Schöll²

2022

Front. Sustain. Cities

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Changing prices after the reform of local public services: remunicipalization versus privatization

Albalate,

Bel,

González-Gómez

et al. 2024

J Regul Econ

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Privatization and remunicipalization have been used as alternative options to reform the delivery of local public services; in both cases, mainly because of disappointment with the service performance, although ideological preferences might also play a role. The drivers and effects of water privatization have been widely studied, whereas little empirical evidence is available for remunicipalization, particularly regarding its effects. Using a sample of Spanish municipalities, this paper assesses the change in the price of urban water following remunicipalization as compared to privatization. The main finding is that remunicipalization leads to smaller increases in price; this outcome is, however, due to a few atypical municipalities with abnormally low prices before the policy reform. Once these influential observations are controlled for, whether the reform consists of remunicipalization or privatization makes no difference regarding price changes. It is also found that remunicipalization is much more likely in cities governed by extreme left-wing parties.

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