It engages ongoing debates in the literature and offers practical insights for municipalities making ownership decisions amid energy transition and global supply-chain challenges.

Findings suggest that returns to public ownership were mainly shaped by institutional, financial, and economic factors—not local party politics or ideology.

Using a new dataset on electricity grid ownership, quantitative analyses, and 3 detailed municipal case studies, the dissertation questions the narrative of a grassroots, politically-driven transformation. 💡

“From Market to Municipality: Electricity Grid Remunicipalization and German Local Politics in the 2010s” examines remunicipalization as a countertrend to earlier privatization in the German energy sector. 🔌⚡

Danke für die Veröffentlichung! 😊