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Evaluation of Delivery Mechanisms in the Water Supply Industry—Evidence from Slovenia

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This chapter deals with the evaluation of delivery mechanisms in water supply industry in Slovenia. The focus is on the institutional and outcome evaluation, i.e. an explanation of the phenomenon in local governments where water is mostly supplied by public entities, either by public enterprises or in-house integrated service providers. Although the reform initiatives have focused on privatisation, legal provisions have only allowed for the so-called formal privatisation, and the invention of special statutory category of public enterprise, thus considerably reducing the incentive to use functional privatisation. This chapter presents the first comprehensive institutional and outcome evaluation of the industry in Slovenia.

The authors would like to thank Professor Albin Rakar (retired, University of Ljubljana) for valuable suggestions.

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  1. Faculty of Administration, University of Ljubljana, Ljubljana, Slovenia

    Primož Pevcin & Iztok Rakar

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  1. Administrative Science and Local Government, University of Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia

    Ivan Koprić

  2. Institute for Social Sciences, Humboldt University of Berlin, Berlin, Germany

    Hellmut Wollmann

  3. GRALE (Groupement de Recherche sur l’Administration Locale en Europe), University Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, Paris, France

    Gérard Marcou

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Pevcin, P., Rakar, I. (2018). Evaluation of Delivery Mechanisms in the Water Supply Industry—Evidence from Slovenia. In: Koprić, I., Wollmann, H., Marcou, G. (eds) Evaluating Reforms of Local Public and Social Services in Europe. Governance and Public Management. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-61091-7_13

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