The Corporate Takeover of Public Policy: The Case of Public–Private Partnerships in Britain

2021 ◽  
pp. 217-235
Author(s):  
Jean Shaoul
Keyword(s):  
Public Policy ◽  
Public Private Partnerships ◽  
Corporate Takeover

Part III Forms of Organization, Ch.8 Private Transnational Governance

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mattli Walter
Keyword(s):  
Public Policy ◽  
Global Governance ◽  
Public Private Partnerships ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Transnational Governance ◽  
Private Governance ◽  
Global Regulation ◽  
Hybrid Governance ◽  
Key Drivers ◽  
Rule Making

This chapter discusses the key drivers and risks of private transnational governance. It shows that private governance rarely seems to stay purely private. When it fails to consider wider societal interests and concerns, private governance will draw unwanted attention from governments, potentially leading to oversight and regulation or public-private partnerships — what is referred to as ‘joint or hybrid’ governance. A trend towards hybrid governance appears to be detectable both in the cases of privatization of global regulation and the rise of transnational private justice. In the former case, states have taken steps to improve procedural transparency and broaden the range of partners involved in transnational rule-making. In the latter case, the constitutionalization of international arbitration governance promises to integrate and safeguard fundamental public policy norms in private judicial processes. Future research on global governance will have to carefully examine the significance and effectiveness of ‘joint or hybrid’ governance.

Reification and praxis of public private partnerships in history

2019 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
pp. 63-70
Author(s):  
Bhabani Shankar Nayak
Keyword(s):  
Public Policy ◽  
Common Good ◽  
Developed Countries ◽  
Development Planning ◽  
Theory And Practice ◽  
Historical Narrative ◽  
Public Private Partnerships ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Advantages And Disadvantages ◽  
Global Public Policy

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to reject the essentialist and neoliberal approach to public–private partnerships (PPPs) by critically evaluating both normative and empirical arguments within existing literature on PPPs. It explores different dynamics of PPPs in theory and practice within global public policy. Design/methodology/approach The paper draws its methodological lineages to nonlinear historical narrative around the concept and construction of the idea and language of “PPPs”. The paper follows discourse analysis (Fairclough, 2003) to locate the way in which the PPPs were incorporated within the language of global public policy. Findings The paper finds that most of the existing literature is looking at managerial, operational, functional and essentialist aspects of PPPs. Therefore, the paper argues that critical success of PPPs depends on its social value for common good with an emancipatory outlook. The study encourages future researchers to move beyond functional aspects of PPPs and locate emancipatory possibilities within the praxis of PPPs from a holistic perspective of global public policy. Research limitations/implications The existing literature on the concepts and history of PPPs locate its relevance for budgeting and development planning in developed countries and developing countries. Such literature often draws out the advantages and disadvantages of these concepts with a strong focus on the financial implications to the shareholders. However, there appears to be less emphasis on the effects of these concepts and gaps between theory and practice of PPPs. Originality/value The paper rejects the essentialist and neoliberal approach to PPPs and argues for an emancipatory approach to understand and implement PPPs.

scholarly journals Public-private partnership: the process of formation and development

2020 ◽  
Vol 70 (2) ◽  
pp. 15-22
Author(s):  
B.O. Ahataeva ◽  
◽  
R.A. Nurtazina ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Public Policy ◽  
Private Sector ◽  
Public Private Partnership ◽  
The State ◽  
Public Private Partnerships ◽  
Private Partnership ◽  
Foreign Countries ◽  
Policy Mechanisms

The article discusses the theoretical aspects of public-private partnership: goals, objectives, regulation through the improvement of public policy mechanisms. A discourse is being made on the formation of public-private partnerships and the effectiveness of the mechanism of relations between the state and the private sector on the example of foreign countries and Kazakhstan.

Harking the holonomic of public-private partnerships: A sounding of McNamara’s World Bank

2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 50-58
Author(s):  
Fred Amonya
Keyword(s):  
Public Policy ◽  
World Bank ◽  
Public Private Partnerships ◽  
The World ◽  
Analysis And Synthesis ◽  
Post War ◽  
New Millennium

Public policy is analysis and synthesis. Yet communication straddles the two. The depth of analysis and rigour of synthesis is in tension with the efficacy of communication. Consequently, a strong policy requires a holonomic space that reduces tension. This paper illuminates that argument. It is a contrasted case study of two policy perspectives on Africa, motivated by the concept of public-private partnerships (PPP). The paper contrasts the nexus of Robert McNamara in the late sixties with the zeitgeist of the infrastructure gap at the unfolding of the new millennium. That contrast illuminates Africa’s failure to capture the fundamentals of PPP. Africa sees PPP as a subject of finance, not efficiency. The concept has been reduced to a yawning gap in finance. And a key reason for that myopic view is that banner called infrastructure gap. That flaw reflects not just weakness in the agency of policy. It also yearns for a holonomic space of policy. McNamara benefitted from the post-war space. After this paper was drafted, COVID-19 struck the world. This pandemic offers space for Africa (and the world) to mould thrusts of policy comparable to McNamara’s nexus

scholarly journals PENSIONS AND PUBLIC – PRIVATE PARTNERSHIPS: A CAUTIONARY NOTE FOR UNION TRUSTEES

Just Labour ◽  
1969 ◽  
Author(s):  
John Calvert
Keyword(s):  
Public Policy ◽  
Public Sector ◽  
Health Services ◽  
Pension Plans ◽  
Public Private Partnerships ◽  
Cautionary Note ◽  
The Public ◽  
Sewer Systems ◽  
Public Sector Unions ◽  
Electrical Utilities

A major demand of public sector unions in recent years has been for greater control over their members’ pension plans. Recently, several provincial governments, most notably British Columbia, have agreed to joint trusteeship, a development which gives union trustees a voice in investment policy.This article focuses on the implications for union trustees of investments in Public Private Partnerships (P-3s) and related privatization initiatives. Examples of such investments include: transportation infrastructure projects, hospitals and health services, schools, municipal water and sewer systems, electrical utilities, and other projects that, historically, have been within the public sector.It argues that trustees should be wary of such investments. Public sector unions have criticized privatization initiatives as a threat to public sector jobs and services. P-3 investments are problematic because they may threaten the jobs of their union’s members, undermine the credibility of their union’s public policy objections to privatization and, in the end, may prove far more risky than P-3 promoters contend.

Public Policy Agenda Adapts to Needs

ASHA Leader ◽  
2012 ◽  
Vol 17 (15) ◽  
pp. 23-23
Author(s):  
George Lyons
Keyword(s):  
Public Policy ◽  
Policy Agenda
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