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Public-Private Partnerships as Converging or Diverging Trends in Public Management? A Comparative Analysis of PPP Policy and Regulation in Denmark and Ireland

International Public Management Review

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Title Public-Private Partnerships as Converging or Diverging Trends in Public Management? A Comparative Analysis of PPP Policy and Regulation in Denmark and Ireland
 
Creator Petersen, Ole Helby
 
Description The utilization of the public-private partnership (PPP) model as a means of delivering various types of asset-based public services and infrastructure is often seen in academic research as part of a globally spread public management reform trend. This view is often suggested with reference to the staggering amount of attention and public money, which is now being dedicated to the formation of PPPs worldwide. This article, however, proceeds from the observation that if we look beyond the reports from a small handful of primarily Anglo-Saxon countries, which have so far attracted widespread attention in the PPP literature, we observe a much more divergent and heterogeneous pattern in various national governments’ policy and regulation for PPP and the amount of actually implemented PPP projects. By comparing the initiatives taken by the Irish government, which has embraced PPPs, with those of the Danish government, which has been PPP sceptic, the article draws on two in-depth country case studies to examine how and why PPPs developed so differently in the two countries. The research illustrates that whereas PPPs in Denmark have been subject to a loosely organized institutional framework with a number of fundamental policy and regulation issues being either unresolved or not very supportive to the uptake of PPPs, Ireland, on the other hand, now presides over one of the most ambitious PPP programs in the world, with major policy, regulation and procurement functions centralized within the Ministry of Finance and the Treasury. As research on PPPs continues to proliferate, this article illustrates that academic PPP literature would benefit from adopting a more explicit comparative focus to account for these significant comparative differences in national governments’ PPP approaches.
 
Publisher International Public Management Review
 
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Date 2014-03-21
 
Type info:eu-repo/semantics/article
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Peer-reviewed Article
 
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Identifier http://journals.sfu.ca/ipmr/index.php/ipmr/article/view/100
 
Source International Public Management Review; Vol 12, No 2 (2011); 1-37
1662-1387
 
Language eng
 
Relation http://journals.sfu.ca/ipmr/index.php/ipmr/article/view/100/100
 
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