01429pab a2200169 454500 180718b2017 xxu||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d Stafford, Anne Examining the use of corporate governance mechanisms in public-private partnerships: why do they not deliver public accountability? 2017 p.378-391. Sep The paper examines corporate governance mechanisms which aim to ensure financial accountability in the context of long-term Public-Private Partnership (PPP) contracts in Britain, and assesses the degree to which they provide taxpayers with control and accountability. The corporate governance arrangements are drawn from the private sector, and therefore downplay the traditional concepts of probity and stewardship, in part due to the British Treasury's adoption of private sector financial reporting. The paper draws on Shaoul et al.'s (2012a) governance-based reporting framework to critique the corporate governance mechanisms of structure, financial reporting, contracts, and scrutiny in relation to British PPP projects. It shows that the way these mechanisms are set up means there is a lack of control by the public sector, thus rendering public accountability ineffective. - Reproduced. Public private partnerships Stapleton, Pamela Australian Journal of Public Administration 116258 116252 116252 0 0 0 0 IIPA IIPA 2018-07-19 Volume no: 76, Issue no: 3 AR116718 2018-07-19 2018-07-19 AR