Compliance or Defiance? : Assessing the Implementation of Policy Prescriptions for Commercialization by Water Operators /: Assessing the Implementation of Policy Prescriptions for Commercialization by Water Operators. (2020)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Mireia Tutusaus.
• Authors: Tutusaus, Mireia
• Contents: Chapter 1: Introduction; 1. Problem statement: Financial sustainability and universal services; 2. Research justification; 3. Research objective and research questions Chapter 2: Commercialization in Water Services Policy Models; 1. Water provision under direct government control and Modern Infrastructural Ideal; 2. The Drinking Water Decade (1981-1990) and alternative technologies; 3. Shifts in the role of governments; 4. The Privatization Decade: 1993-2003; 5. Promoting privatization; 6. Critiquing privatization; 7. The end of the promise of privatization; 8. The principles of privatization remain: Commercialization; 9. Three dominant models of service provisioning; 10. Adjustments to the model as entry points Chapter 3: Policy Models – Formulation, Implementation and Change; 1. Policy development: a linear process; 2. More actors and less linearity; 3. Adjustments to policy during implementation; 4. Policy learning Chapter 4: Methodology and Research Design; 1. Studying adjustments; 2. Case study selection: The challenge of commercialization in small towns; 3. Defining Small Towns; 4. Selected Cases; 5. Data collection Chapter 5: Delegated Management Framework in Small Towns in Mozambique; 1. Historical background and context of water services provision in Mozambique; 2. The implementation of the DMF; 3. Discussion Chapter 6: Commercial Public Utility in Small Towns in Uganda; 1. Historical background and context of water services in Uganda; 4. Organizational structure and strategic directions of NWSC for small towns; 5. Adjustments to the idea of commercialization; 6. Discussion Chapter 7: Community Based Organizations in Small Towns in Indonesia; 1. Historical background and context of water services in Indonesia; 2. The operationalization of the CBO model in Lamongan Regency; 3. Discussion Chapter 8: Talking and Practicing Commercialization; 2. Practicing commercialization: deviations during implementation; 3. Does commercialization improve water provisioning?; 4. The persistence of the commercial ideal; 5. Is the divergence of talk and action a problem?; 6. Concluding remarks
• Edition: 1st
• Publisher Details: CRC Press
• Publication Date: 2020
• Extent: 1 online resource (166 pages)
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781000034615; 1000034615
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