Water infrastructure regulatory systems are occasionally characterised by the combination of selected features of alternative models of regulation, such as public ownership, discretionary regulation, and franchise regulation. Issues arise regarding why these combined or 'hybrid' systems appear,...

In 1994, the Italian Parliament passed a reform which aimed to radically change the economic regulatory institutions of the water sector in the country. The implementation of the reform, which lasted about twelve years, resulted in a new regulatory regime which combined selected features of...

Within the area of study of privatization, some attention has been placed on the emergence of mixed public-private ownership firms for the provision of public services. Mixed ownership firms may provisionally result during an intermediate stage within a process oriented towards full...

Various critiques have been made of the analytic narrative, which is a methodological approach that combines historically oriented research with rational choice models. This paper discusses strengths and limitations of the approach and provides some suggestions for its inclusion in the...