Public-Private Partnerships : Theory and Practice in International Perspective

ISBN-13: 9780415212687 / Angielski / Twarda / 2000 / 368 str.

Stephen P. Osborne

Opis

Public-private partnerships are an increasing aspect of the delivery of public policies and services across the world. This book draws 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.

Spis treści

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

O autorze

Stephen Osborne