Public private partnership in public service and development: A conceptual and empirical framework
- 2008
- p.395-416.
- Jul-Sep
Public Private Partnership (PPP) has emerged as the buzzword in the study and practice of public policy and administration since the mid-1970s, but the discourse on the relationship between public and private realms is a time-honoured one. The issue of PPP needs to be situated in the broader intellectual and empirical context prior to a focused discussion on it to get a clear, comprehensive understanding of the concept, its meanings, forms, and problems by planners and policy-makers. this is precisely what the author has attempted to do in the first section of this article. It discusses the key concepts around which the issue of PPP revoves, namely, public vs private sphere, state vs market, state vs civil society, citizen participation and PPP for socio-economic development. The second section is exclusively devoted to a detailed analysis of empirical data on India. The concluding section highlights the various policy, regulatory, financial, and institutional frameworks necessary and essential for the success of PPP. - Reproduced.