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Re-municipalization of public services: trend or hype?
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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 and often confuses municipal level reversals from national ones, new service delivery from reversals, and mixed market positions (such as corporatization) from full public control. This conceptual confusion makes measurement of re-municipalization difficult. While more case studies are being discovered, studies based on quantitative time series do not show re-municipalization as an increasing trend. Much case study based research argues re-municipalization 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.
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CLIFTON, Judith, et al. Re-municipalization of public services: trend or hype?. Journal of Economic Policy Reform. 2021. Vol. 24, num. 3, pags. 293-304. ISSN 1748-7870. [consulted: 10 of August of 2026]. Available at: https://hdl.handle.net/2445/179920