Municipally owned corporations (MOCs) are increasingly utilised to provide local public
services, but little remains known about their efficiency and effectiveness. In this article, we …

Research on the use of municipal corporations to deliver local and regional public services
has evolved significantly in the past decade. Most of this work addresses the performance of …

With the increase in public services offered at the local level and heightened budgetary and
financial constraints on local government, new ways of managing local public services must …

Over the last few decades, European countries have dealt with problems of regional
governance in very different ways. A common theme is the debate between supporters of …

Scholarly empirical studies on factors that motivate local privatisation have greatly grown in
the last decade. As well, having available better and more comprehensive databases and …

This article looks at the use of institutionalized public–private partnership (PPP)
arrangements by local governments for the delivery of different types of infrastructure. It …

Marketisation of urban service delivery gained renewed intensity in the crisis. Mobilising
Polanyi's concept of double movement, we analyse how marketisation of public services …

Abstract Service provision by local governments can be delivered using in-house
bureaucracies, private firms, and partnerships with other governments or the not-for-profit …

Practitioners often expect service delivery by municipally owned corporations (MOCs) to
differ substantially from delivery by municipal bureaucracy. However, research into the …

The engagement of local government in public–private partnerships (PPPs) for the provision
of infrastructure and public services is a global trend. Light rail services, water systems …