Public Private Partnership Between Euphoria and Disillusionment: Recent Experiences from Austria and Implications for Countries in Transformation

  • This paper analyses the arduous path towards implementing Public Private Partnership (PPP) as a governance mode increasingly ‘en vogue’ in many political programs worldwide. As current literature on PPP strongly features an Anglo-Saxon bias recent experiences from Austria with a continental-European legalistic Rechtsstaat tradition are presented. Based on our analysis of a recently failed PPP project we outline that beside factors put forward by rational-choice approaches the dynamics of such partnerships are also shaped by normative and cultural-cognitive factors as theorized by neoinstitutional approaches. We thereby understand PPPs not only as a distinct, innovative organizational arrangement but also as a policy tool with symbolic meanings and underlying premises. In the final part general implications regarding the relevance of these experiences for transformational countries are outlined.

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Document Type:Article
Language:English
Author(s):Gerhard HammerschmidORCiD, Dieter J. Angerer
Parent Title (English):Romanian Journal of Political Science
ISSN:1582-456X
Publisher:Orion Press Impex 2000 SRL
Place of Publisher:Bucharest
Publication year:2005
Publishing Institution:Hertie School
First Page:129
Last Page:159
Release Date:2015/08/17
Tag:Neoinstitutionalism; Procurement; Public goods theory; Public management; Public-Private Partnership
Volume:5
Issue:1
Licence of document (German):Metadaten / metadata
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