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