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Corporatisation in Local Government

Context, Evidence and Perspectives from 19 Countries

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Editors:
  1. Marieke Van Genugten

    1. Institute for Management Research, Radboud University, Nijmegen, The Netherlands

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  2. Bart Voorn

    1. Institute for Management Research, Radboud University, Nijmegen, The Netherlands

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  3. Rhys Andrews

    1. Cardiff Business School, Cardiff University, Cardiff, UK

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  4. Ulf Papenfuß

    1. Zeppelin University, Friedrichshafen, Germany

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  5. Harald Torsteinsen

    1. Department of Social Sciences, UiT The Arctic University of Norway, Tromsø/Harstad, Norway

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  • Outlines and explores municipally owned corporations in Europe
  • Uses a fixed framework to better explore the comparisons between legislation
  • Provides practitioners with a better understanding of corporatisation

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Table of contents (21 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xx
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  2. Corporatisation in Local Government: An Introduction

    • Harald Torsteinsen, Rhys Andrews, Ulf Papenfuß, Marieke Van Genugten, Bart Voorn
    Pages 1-18

  3. Anglo Saxon Countries

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 19-19
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    2. Municipally Owned Corporations in Canada

      • Joseph Lyons, Zachary Spicer, David Taylor
      Pages 21-47

    3. Municipally Owned Corporations in England and Wales: A Tale of Two Countries

      • Rhys Andrews, Laurence Ferry
      Pages 49-72

    4. Municipally Owned Corporations in Israel: Local Initiative and the Pursuit of Flexibility in a Centralised Context

      • Eran Razin, Anna Hazan
      Pages 73-96

  4. Central East European Countries

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 97-97
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    2. Municipally Owned Corporations in Hungary

      • György Hajnal, Bence Kucsera
      Pages 99-117

    3. Municipally Owned Corporations in Poland: Delivery of Local Public Services

      • Julita Łukomska, Paweł Swianiewicz, Katarzyna Szmigiel-Rawska, Marta Lackowska, Joanna Krukowska
      Pages 119-142

    4. Private Law, Public Control: Municipally Owned Corporations in Slovakia

      • Emília Sičáková-Beblavá, Matúš Sloboda
      Pages 143-167

  5. Central Federal European Countries

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 169-169
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    2. Municipally Owned Corporations in Austria: High Popularity, Low Transparency

      • Sanja Korać, Iris Saliterer
      Pages 171-195

    3. Corporatised Public Service Provision of Local Governments in Germany: A Key Topic for UN-SDGs and Promising Public Corporate Governance Developments

      • Ulf Papenfuß
      Pages 197-220

    4. Corporatisation in Swiss Local Government

      • Claire Kaiser, Reto Steiner, Jana Machljankin
      Pages 221-242

  6. Napoleonic Countries

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 243-243
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    2. Municipally Owned Corporations in France: An Emerging Tool of Public Engineering

      • Gwenaël Leblong-Masclet
      Pages 245-264

    3. Municipally Owned Corporations in Greece: Historical Evolution and the Current Situation

      • Athanasia Triantafyllopoulou, Theodore N. Tsekos
      Pages 265-289

    4. Municipal Corporatisation in Italy

      • Giuseppe Grossi, Simone Cocciasecca
      Pages 291-313

    5. Municipal Corporatisation in Portugal: From Mania to Depression

      • António F. Tavares, Pedro J. Camões
      Pages 315-333

    6. Corporatisation in Spanish Local Government: Governing the Diversity

      • Germà Bel, Marc Esteve, Juan Carlos Garrido-Rodríguez, José Luis Zafra-Gómez
      Pages 335-355
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About this book

This book provides a comprehensive comparison of municipally owned corporations in Europe. Municipal corporatisation is the act of delivering public services at arm’s length from local government through municipally owned corporations. Although it has become an increasing trend in recent years, we still know little about cross-country differences in what these municipally owned corporations look like, what legislation applies to them, and how they are governed. This book seeks to fill this gap. Each chapter outlines the legal provisions that enable or hinder the formation of municipally owned corporations in a particular country, the trends around corporatisation, and the structure of the corporations that exist. Going beyond the national context, the book provides an overview of what unites countries in terms of the trend towards municipally owned corporations, and what differentiates them. It offers a critical comparison that will make finding regional and global trends easier for researchers, and will help practitioners to better understand the differences between countries to allow for greater collaborative policy learning.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Institute for Management Research, Radboud University, Nijmegen, The Netherlands

    Marieke Van Genugten, Bart Voorn

  • Cardiff Business School, Cardiff University, Cardiff, UK

    Rhys Andrews

  • Zeppelin University, Friedrichshafen, Germany

    Ulf Papenfuß

  • Department of Social Sciences, UiT The Arctic University of Norway, Tromsø/Harstad, Norway

    Harald Torsteinsen

About the editors

Rhys Andrews is Professor of Public Management at Cardiff University, UK.

 

Marieke van Genugten is Assistant Professor of Public Administration at Radboud University, the Netherlands.

 

Ulf Papenfuß is Professor of Public Management and Public Policy at Zeppelin University, Germany.

 

Harald Torsteinsen is Professor in the Department of Social Sciences at the Arctic University of Norway.

 

Bart Voorn is Assistant Professor of Public Management at Radboud University, the Netherlands.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Corporatisation in Local Government

  • Book Subtitle: Context, Evidence and Perspectives from 19 Countries

  • Editors: Marieke Van Genugten, Bart Voorn, Rhys Andrews, Ulf Papenfuß, Harald Torsteinsen

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-09982-3

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham

  • eBook Packages: Political Science and International Studies, Political Science and International Studies (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2023

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-09981-6Published: 02 March 2023

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-09984-7Published: 02 March 2024

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-09982-3Published: 01 March 2023

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XX, 497

  • Number of Illustrations: 24 b/w illustrations

  • Topics: Public Policy, Governance and Government, European Politics

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