Local Government Restructuring Lab

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Privatization/Remunicipalization

Prof. Warner has been tracking the trends in privatization and its reverse (re-municipalization) for the last 25 years. Problems with service quality, lack of cost savings, and stability cause privatization to be less common in the US. Rates of remunicipalization have been stable since 2002.

 

PUBLICATIONS

Hefetz, Amir and Mildred E. Warner 2012. “Contracting or Public Delivery? The importance of service, market and management characteristics,” Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory, 22(2): 289-317. DOI 10.1093/jopart/MUR006

Hefetz, Amir, Mildred Warner and Eran Vigoda-Gadot 2014. “Concurrent Sourcing in the Public Sector: A Strategy to Manage Contracting Risk,” International Public Management Journal, 17(3): 365-386. DOI: 10.1080/10967494.2014.935242

Warner, Mildred E. and Hefetz, Amir (2020). “Contracting Dynamics and Unionization: Managing Labor, Political Interests and Markets.” Local Government Studies, 46(2): 228-252. DOI: 10.1080/03003930.2019.1670167

Warner, Mildred E and Austin M. Aldag (2021). “Re-municipalization in the US: A Pragmatic Response to Contracting,” Journal of Economic Policy Reform, 24(3): 319-332. DOI: 10.1080/17487870.2019.1646133.

Warner, M.E. 2023. “Pragmatic Municipalism: Privatization and Remunicipalization in the US,“ Local Government Studies, forthcoming. https://doi.org/10.1080/03003930.2022.2162884.
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