Public-Private Partnerships: Theory and Practice in International Perspective

by Stephen Osborne

Overview

Public-Private partnerships are an increasing aspect of the delivery of public policies and services across the world. This book is the first to draw upon a range of disciplines to offer theoretical perspectives upon their analysis as well as a range of case-studies of their management from around the world. It also offers a number of frameworks for the evaluation of their management. This book will be of interest to students of public policy and public management, whether at the undergraduate or postgraduate level.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780415439626
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	03/27/2007
Series:	Routledge Advances in Management and Business Studies
Pages:	366
Product dimensions:	6.12(w) x 9.19(h) x (d)

About the Author

Rosamund Norbury is an award-winning photographer and the author of Behind the Chutes: The Mystique of the Rodeo Cowboy and Guy to Goddess: An Intimate Look at Drag Queens (with Bill Richardson). Her work has appeared in Canadian Art and Saturday Night, and has been show in various galleries internationally. She is also an accomplished printermaker. Rosamund lives in Vancouver.

Table of Contents

Introduction Understanding public - private partnerships in international perspective: globally convergent or nationally divergent phenomena? Stephen P Osborne Part I Understanding public - private partnerships 1. The theory of partnerships - why have partnership? Ron McQuaid 2. Public - private partnerships: sectoral comparisons Peter Carroll and Peter Steane 3. Public - private partnerships. Rethinking the boundary between public and private law Gavin Drewry 4. Understanding the process of public - private partnerships Stephen P Osborne and Vic Murray 5. Governing public - private partnerships. Analysing and managing processes and institutional characteristics of public - private partnerships Erik-Hans Klijn and Geert Teisman Part II Understanding and contrasting public contexts for public - private partnerships 6. Public - private partnerships in the United States: historical patterns and current trends Lynne Moulton and Helmut K Anheier 7. Public - private partnerships and the 'new Labour' government in Britain Peter K Falconer and Kathleen Ross 8. The East Asia region: do public - private partnerships make sense? Richard Common 9. The decline of the Leviathan: state, market and civil society in South-east Asia Gerald Clarke Part III Public - private partnerships in international perspective: practice and management 10. Public - private partnerships in the European Union. Officially suspect, in daily practice embraced Geert Teisman and Erik-Hans Klijn 11. Transforming the state into a partner in cooperative development. An evaluation of NGO - government partnership in the Philippines Teresa S Encarnacion Tadem 12. The propensity, persistence and performance of public - private partnerships in Sweden Sven-Olof Collin and Lennert Hansson 13. Partnerships in Pittsburgh: the evaluation of complex local initiatives Brian Jacobs 14. Rural Action for the Environment in the UK: developing partnerships and promoting learning through networks Mike Tricker 15. Building 'active' partnerships in aid-recipient countries: lessons from a rural development project in Bangladesh David Lewis 16. Partnership between local government and the local community in the area of social policy: an Hungarian experience Gyorgy Jenei and Anna Vari Part IV Evaluating public - private partnerships 17. Evaluating the impact of public - private partnerships: a Canadian perspective Vic Murray 18. What makes partnerships work? Chris Huxham and Siv Vangen 19. NGO partners: the characteristics of effective development partnerships John Hailey Conclusions A one-way street or two-way traffic? Can public-private partnerships impact upon the policy making process? Kathleen Ross and Stephen P Osborne