LEADER 05881nam 22005775 450 001 9910678258403321 005 20251008135029.0 010 $a3-031-09982-6 024 7 $a10.1007/978-3-031-09982-3 035 $a(PPN)276162056 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC7208113 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL7208113 035 $a(CKB)26189265000041 035 $a(DE-He213)978-3-031-09982-3 035 $a(EXLCZ)9926189265000041 100 $a20230301d2023 u| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aCorporatisation in Local Government $eContext, Evidence and Perspectives from 19 Countries /$fedited by Marieke Van Genugten, Bart Voorn, Rhys Andrews, Ulf Papenfuß, Harald Torsteinsen 205 $a1st ed. 2023. 210 1$aCham :$cSpringer International Publishing :$cImprint: Palgrave Macmillan,$d2023. 215 $a1 online resource (500 pages) 311 08$a3-031-09981-8 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references. 327 $a1. Corporatisation in Local Government: An Introduction -- 2. Municipally Owned Corporations in Canada -- 3. Municipally Owned Corporations in England and Wales: A Tale of Two Countries -- 4. Municipally Owned Corporations in Israel: Local Initiative and the Pursuit of Flexibility in a Centralised Context -- 5. Municipally Owned Corporations in Hungary -- 6. Municipally Owned Corporations in Delivery of Local Public Services in Poland -- 7. Private Law, Public Control: Municipally Owned Corporations in Slovakia -- 8. Municipally Owned Corporations in Austria: High Popularity, Low Transparency -- 9. Corporatised Public Service Provision of Local Governments in Germany: A Key Topic for UN-SDGs and Promising Public Corporate Governance Developments -- 10. Corporatisation in Swiss Local Government -- 11. Municipally Owned Corporations in France: An Emerging Tool of Public Engineering -- 12. Municipally Owned Corporations in Greece: Historical Evolution and the Current Situation -- 13. Municipal Corporatisation in Italy -- 14. Municipal Corporatisation in Portugal: From Mania to Depression -- 15. Corporatisation in Spanish Local Government: Governing the Diversity -- 16. Corporatisation in Local Government: The Case of Turkey -- 17. Municipally Owned Corporations in Denmark: Historical Continuity and Contemporary Complexities in a Local State-Centred Reform Trajectory -- 18. Municipal Corporatisation in the Netherlands: A Vehicle for Inter-municipal Cooperation -- 19. Corporatisation in Norwegian Local Government -- 20. Municipally Owned Corporations in Sweden -- 21. Corporatised Local Public Service Provision: Comparative Evidence from 19 Countries and Research Agenda. 330 $aSystematic, thorough, and informative, this volume offers a very welcome contribution to the field of local government studies and, more generally, public administration. The authors show how apparently mundane organisational choices of service provision may raise fundamental questions of democratic accountability. Thus, this volume provides a solid platform for numerous future research projects about the role of corporations in public governance. ? Jacob Aars, Professor, Department of Government, University of Bergen ?Municipally owned corporations are the invisible entities that shape our local public services. This insightful analysis draws on rich empirical material to provide a much-needed comparative picture of corporatisation in local government across 19 countries. An essential book for students of public management.? ? Steven Van de Walle, Professor, Public Governance Institute, KU Leuven This book provides a comprehensive comparison of municipal corporatisation in nineteen countries belonging to five different administrative traditions. 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. Going beyond the national context, the book provides an overview of what unites countries in terms of 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 and similarities between countries to allow for greater collaborative policy learning. 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. 606 $aPolitical planning 606 $aPolitical science 606 $aEurope$xPolitics and government 606 $aPublic Policy 606 $aGovernance and Government 606 $aEuropean Politics 615 0$aPolitical planning. 615 0$aPolitical science. 615 0$aEurope$xPolitics and government. 615 14$aPublic Policy. 615 24$aGovernance and Government. 615 24$aEuropean Politics. 676 $a338.62 676 $a338.62 702 $aVan Genugten$b Marieke 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910678258403321 996 $aCorporatisation in Local Government$93067772 997 $aUNINA