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Few current issues in public management are as controversial as public private partnerships (PPPs). The intensity of the debate reflects the importance of the concept to the government as it focuses on its central policy objective of improving public services, and the degree of opposition that is ranged against it. Opinion is divided with alternative views emerging across the political spectrum. Private Public Partnerships presents a fresh and wide-ranging review of the core issues behind the debate, capturing the experiences and insight of practitioners at the forefront of the first wave of PPP programmes, research and analysis from leading academics who have studied the performance of PPPs, and critical views from advocates and opponents of the concept.
List of contents
PPP: The Instrument for Transforming the Public Services; A.Ghobadian, D.Gallear, N.O'Regan & H.Viney PART I: PUBLIC PRIVATE PARTNERSHIP (PPP): CONTEXT, PURPOSE AND PERSPECTIVES Public-Private Partnerships and Private Finance; Rt Hon J.Redwood MP New Labour and PPPs; D.Corry PART II: ASSESSING THE APPROPRIATENESS OF PPP AND OVERCOMING POTENTIAL RESISTANCE Peterborough Hospitals NHS Trust; C.Morton & C.Banks Public Private Partnerships; K.Faulkner Making PPPs Accountable: The Case of Ireland; M.Kay & E.Reeves PART III: FINDING THE RIGHT PARTNER Finding the Right Partner; C.Foster Finding the Right Partner: The Partners' Perspective; R.Kerley PART IV: BUILDING A SUCCESSFUL PUBLIC PRIVATE PARTNERSHIP Public-Private Partnerships and Regional Economic Development; T.Cockerill Diversity and Contestability: The Key to Public Service Modernisation; J.Tizard Public-Private Partnership: The Right Form at the Wrong Moment? An Analysis of Institutional and Strategic Obstacles; E-H.Klijn & G.R.Teisman PART V: PRIVATE FINANCE INITIATIVE (PFI) An Examination of the Private Finance Initiative: Has the PFI Initiative Assisted in the Investment in our Public Services or Has It Been an Expensive Diversion?; T.Haggar Risk Management and the Private Finance Initiative; R.Ball, M.Heafey & D.King Why is it so Expensive to Bid for PFI Contracts?; A.Knight & I.Fox PART VI: PPP - CONTRACTUAL ISSUES PPP Contractual Issues: Big Promises and Unfinished Business; G.A.Hodge & D.M.Bowman PART VII: INTERNATIONAL PERSPECTIVE AND EXPERIENCE Public-Private Partnerships in Western Europe and the USA: New Growths from Old Roots; T.Bovaird Public-Private Partnerships in Service Delivery in Developing Countries: Jamaican Examples; P.D.Osei PART VIII: PPP - THE WAY FORWARD Future of Public-Private Partnership; A.Ghobadian, D.Gallear, H.Viney & N.O'Regan
About the author
ROB BALL University of Stirling, Scotland, UK
CHRISTOPHER BANKS Chief Executive, Peterborough Hospitals NHS Trust, UK
TONY BOVAIRD Bristol University Business School, UK
DIANA M. BOWMAN Monash University, Australia
TONY COCKERILL University of Durham, UK
DAN CORRY Director, New Local Government Network, UK
KEITH FAULKNER Working Links, UK
CORALIE FOSTER Director, RSM Rhodes LLP, UK
IAN FOX Principal Consultant, Berkshire Consultancy Ltd, UK
TONY HAGGAR Middlesex University, UK
MARYANNE HEAFEY University of Stirling, Scotland, UK
GRAEME A. HODGE Monash University, Australia
MARTIN KAY University of Limerick, Ireland
RICHARD KERLEY Queen Margaret University College, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK
DAVE KING University of Stirling, Scotland, UK
ERIK-HANS KLIJN Erasmus University, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
ALLEN KNIGHT Director, Berkshire Consultancy Ltd, UK
CLIVE MORTON Peterborough Hospitals NHS Trust, UK
PHILIP D. OSEI The University of The West Indies, Mona, Jamaica
RT HONJOHN REDWOOD MP
EOIN REEVES University of Limerick, Ireland
GEERT R. TEISMAN Erasmus University, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
JOHN TIZARD Director of Policy and Public Affairs, The Capita Group Plc, UK
Summary
Few current issues in public management are as controversial as public private partnerships (PPPs). The intensity of the debate reflects the importance of the concept to the government as it focuses on its central policy objective of improving public services, and the degree of opposition that is ranged against it. Opinion is divided with alternative views emerging across the political spectrum. Private Public Partnerships presents a fresh and wide-ranging review of the core issues behind the debate, capturing the experiences and insight of practitioners at the forefront of the first wave of PPP programmes, research and analysis from leading academics who have studied the performance of PPPs, and critical views from advocates and opponents of the concept.
