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Over the past two decades, Italian local administrations have made increasing recourse to municipal corporations constituted & run according to private company law: this phenomenon is not limited to local utilities, & most fields of local government are involved. Based on a theoretical overview of legal aspects & of published reports of empirical case studies, the article shows how & to what extent recourse to joint-stock or limited companies has a series of consequences on local government & on its democratic accountability, due to its legal implications, on the one hand, & to the political & strategic use that is made of it by local administrations. Adapted from the source document.