Challenge of Public–Private Partnerships

Edited by Graeme A. Hodge, Professor, Monash University, Australia and Carsten Greve, Professor, Department of Organization, Copenhagen Business School, Denmark

• Contents: 1. Introduction 2. The Public–Private Interface: Surveying the History 3. The United Kingdom Private Finance Initiative: The Challenge of Allocating Risk 4. Getting the Contract Right 5. Political Issues of Public–Private Partnerships 6. Public–Private Partnerships as the Management of Co-Production: Strategic and Institutional Obstacles in a Difficult Marriage 7. Traditional Contracts as Partnerships: Effective Accountability in Social Services Contracts in the American States 8. United States: Human Services 9. North American Infrastructure P3s: Examples and Lessons Learned 10. The Private Finance Initiative or the Public Funding or Private Profit? 11. Learning from UK Private Finance Initiative Experience 12. Public–Private Partnerships in Social Services: The Example of the City of Stockholm 13. Public–Private Partnerships for Infrastructure in Denmark from Local to Global Partnering 14. German Public–Private Partnerships in Personal Social Services: New Directions in a Corporatist Environment 15. Using Public–Private Partnerships to Deliver Social Infrastructure: The Australian Experience 16. Public–Private Partnerships: The Australasian Experience with Physical Infrastructure 17. Public–Private Partnerships: A Policy for All Seasons? Index

'One of the first collections of empirical studies on the international experience with public-private partnerships (PPPs), The Challenge of Public-Private Partnerships raises several crucial issues that challenge the effectiveness of PPPs. It does a good job of organizing scattered research on a complicated topic, examining partnerships in historical, political, and economic contexts, and pointing out major defects in previous studies. The editors have assembled an all-star cast of contributors to accomplish three major goals relating to PPPs: to reexamine the huge range of definitions, to review the international experience and learn from the outcomes, and to call for more careful balanced assessment.'