Journal
LOCAL GOVERNMENT STUDIES
Volume -, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
ROUTLEDGE JOURNALS, TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD
DOI: 10.1080/03003930.2022.2162884
Keywords
Privatization; remunicipalization; local government; water; pragmatic municipalism
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At the local government level in the US, the process of privatisation has been a dynamic one, with experimentation and a return to public delivery when privatisation fails. Pragmatic concerns about service cost and quality drive this experimentation, influenced by service and market characteristics, local government capacity, and regulatory framework. While some shifts favor private actors, federal investments since COVID-19 support maintaining a public role.
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.
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