A Research Agenda for Public–Private Partnerships and the Governance of Infrastructure

Edited by Graeme A. Hodge, Adjunct Professor, Monash University, Australia and Carsten Greve, Professor, Department of Organization, Copenhagen Business School, Denmark

Contents:

Preface and acknowledgements xiii

PART I INTRODUCTION
1 The PPP research terrain in a contested era 3
Carsten Greve and Graeme A. Hodge
2 Theories of public–private partnerships 35
Erik-Hans Klijn
3 The use of research methods in public–private
partnership research 55
Rianne Warsen

PART II NEW FRONTIERS IN A CONTESTED WORLD
4 Public–private partnerships in an economist’s eye:
a gleam or a beam? 85
Dmitri Vinogradov and Elena Shadrina
5 New frontiers in the politics of public–private
partnerships 105
Anthony M. Bertelli and Eleanor F. Woodhouse
6 Psychological and ontological research on PPPs:
what is PPP doing to us? 117
Sophie Sturup
7 What can behavioural science teach us about
the policy settings for privately financed public
infrastructure? 131
Sebastian Zwalf
8 A public turn in the governance of infrastructure 151
Lene Tolstrup Christensen and Carsten Greve
9 New frontiers in planning: city building through
public–private partnerships? 163
Matti Siemiatycki
10 New frontiers of PPP law 179
Christina Tvarnø and Sarah Maria Denta

PART III CONTEMPORARY AND CONTINUING
THEMES IN A CONTESTED WORLD
11 Financialization: the next stage in PPP development 205
Anne Stafford, Stewart Smyth and Marta Almeida
12 Great expectations for pension funds: a tale of
two cities 229
Richard Foster and Graeme A. Hodge
13 The public–private partnership market maturity
research frontier 261
Carter B. Casady
14 The determinants of PPP uptake in Europe:
a mixed methods approach 277
Moritz Liebe
15 Institutional work in policy transfers: a case study
of PPP adoption in Germany 305
Micaela Mihov
16 High speed, high cost: the problematic
procurement of Ireland’s National Broadband Plan 331
Dónal Palcic and Eoin Reeves

PART IV CONCLUSION
17 Common themes for a PPP research agenda 353
Graeme A. Hodge and Carsten Greve

Index