 Re-municipalisation in the early twenty-first century: water in France and energy in GermanyDavid Hall, Emanuele Lobina () and Philipp Terhorst International Review of Applied Economics, 2013, vol. 27, issue 2, 193-214 Abstract: Changes between state and market production of public services can be analysed as ‘pendulum’ swings, reflecting political struggles. The extensive re-municipalisations in the water sector and France and the energy sector in Germany provide evidence on this question. This is not the result of a coordinated institutional initiative, but a reflection of common political and economic factors. The most important of these are the greater efficiency of public sector provision, and the greater degree of control over the effective achievement of public policy objectives. These are closely related to the historic factors driving public ownership in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. A distinctive feature of this twenty-first century tendency is the prominent role of green parties and environmental policies. The public sector paradigm has historically shown a remarkable resilience, underpinning the development of European public services for almost a century, compared with the three decades of domination by the market paradigm and its currently vacillating foundations. Date: 2013 Downloads: (external link) Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:taf:irapec:v:27:y:2013:i:2:p:193-214 Ordering information: This journal article can be ordered from DOI: 10.1080/02692171.2012.754844 Access Statistics for this article International Review of Applied Economics is currently edited by Professor Malcolm Sawyer More articles in International Review of Applied Economics from Taylor & Francis Journals |
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