Reorganising local public utilities : where and why we can argue for the remunicipalization trends?

Petkovšek, Veronika (avtor), Hrovatin, Nevenka (avtor), Pevcin, Primož (avtor)

The paper is based on the use of evidence to scrutinise the effect of the Public-Private Partnership Act on the local public utility providers, where the context of the water and wastewater sector in Slovenia serves as an example. The Act affected the legal status of public enterprises, where solely public ownership was prescribed, and therefore demanded the reorganisation ofexisting public enterprises. The paper aims to evaluate the reorganisation process and the trend of remunicipalisation, the motives of reorganisation (political, pragmatic or transformative) and the advantages and disadvantages of the reorganisation process. A detailed, structured online guestionnaire was designed and pretested for primary data collection to reach these aims. The questionnaire was sent to the Slovenian local public utility providers in water and wastewater management. The data was collated from 2018 to 2020. It was used in the analysis to provide evidence about the outcomes of the reorganisation process. The results show that new legislation contributed to increased public ownership in local public utility provision. The results also reveal that pragmatic motivating factors contributed to increased municipal buying out of private investors from (public) enterprises. The reorganisation process led municipalities into remunicipalisation, meaning that full municipal ownership and control increased.

• Jezik: Angleški jezik
• Ključne besede: local public utilities, public enterprise, remunicipalisation, water and wastewater management
• Vrsta gradiva: Članek v reviji
• Tipologija: 1.01 - Izvirni znanstveni članek
• Organizacija: FU - Fakulteta za upravo ; EF - Ekonomska fakulteta
• Status publikacije: Objavljeno
• Različica publikacije: Objavljena publikacija
• Leto izida: 2023
• Št. strani: Str. 122-142
• Številčenje: Vol. 16, iss. 2
• PID: 20.500.12556/RUL-153111
• UDK: 352:33(497.4)
• ISSN pri članku: 1338-4309
• DOI: 10.2478/nispa-2023-0016
• COBISS.SI-ID: 177876995
• Datum objave v RUL: 18.12.2023

Gradivo je del revije

• Naslov: NISPAcee journal of public administration and policy
• Skrajšan naslov: NISPAcee j. publi. adm. policy
• Založnik: Sciendo, NISPAcee, GIPA
• ISSN: 1338-4309
• COBISS.SI-ID: 520037913

Licence

• Licenca: CC BY-NC-ND 4.0, Creative Commons Priznanje avtorstva-Nekomercialno-Brez predelav 4.0 Mednarodna
• Povezava: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/deed.sl
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Sekundarni jezik

• Jezik: Slovenski jezik
• Ključne besede: lokalne javne službe, javno podjetje, remunicipalizacija, upravljanje z vodo in odpadnimi vodami