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Transnational Public-Private Partnerships' Performance in Water Governance: Institutional Design Matters

Cover: Environment and Planing C: Government and Policy

Cover: Environment and Planing C: Government and Policy

Marianne Beisheim, Sabine Campe – 2012

Transnational public-private partnerships (PPPs) are new forms of governance that have caught the interest of researchers in recent years. While the literature tends to portray PPPs as loosely institutionalized forms of governance, we argue that PPPs' institutional design varies and matters for their effectiveness. We aim to demonstrate that a high degree of institutionalization (obligation, precision, delegation) is relevant in cases that involve collective action problems—that is, for those PPPs that have to deal with distributional conflict, cheating, or free-riding. To substantiate our argument, we compare and analyze the performance of three transnational water partnerships (not to be confused with municipal for-profit PPPs). Our results confirm that a high degree of institutionalization tends to be important for those water partnerships that implement costly projects. It is less important for those that focus on the comparatively undemanding task of exchanging and disseminating knowledge and best practice in water management and governance.

Titel
Transnational Public-Private Partnerships' Performance in Water Governance: Institutional Design Matters
Verlag
SAGE Publications
Ort
Los Angeles
Schlagwörter
Public-Private Partnerships (PPP), Nachhaltigkeit, Wasser, Teilprojekt D1
Datum
2012-08
Kennung
ISSN 1472-3425
Erschienen in
Environment and Planning C: Government and Policy, 30 (4), 627-642.
Sprache
eng
Art
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