Adapting governance of public-private partnerships in the post-New Public Management era: challenges to British, Czech and Spanish approaches
Abstract
The traditional models of Public-Private Partnerships (PPPs) are in flux. The debate is about a fundamental change of attitude and perhaps of the conception itself.
One of the basic questions is how PPPs can be brought in line with an elaborate public governance regime. This research aims to examine and compare public sector structures involved in governance of PPPs in the Czech Republic, Spain and the UK and at the same time to assess the compatibility of the three national models’ settings with the post-New Public Management framework shaped by the new paradigms.
The spread and use of knowledge and skills capacities and the overall ability of the national institutional models to protect the public interest in an effective and efficient way is assessed together with openness and transparency of PPP.