Arrangements between public & private parties Public officials, private entrepreneurs and citizens are looking for new ways of creating the public domain and public services in cooperation with each other. Public-private partnerships and liberalization policies can be created if they add value aimed at…
We present here the case of privatizing prisons. After a short introduction we try to draw lessons from the experience in the USA and Australia. Privatizing prison facilities and correctional services is probably one of the most debated topics concerning public-private cooperation. Despite the…
We have had many guiding policy concepts, such as ‘privatisation’ and ‘contracting out’ (high point in the 1980s and 90s, continuing into the beginning of this century) and others, often applied with more ambition in Anglo-Saxon countries, such as ‘reinventing government’ (first period of…
Delivery of public goods by public and private organizations ‘More market, less government’ that is what the eighties stood for. Until the seventies, bureaucracy was able to flourish and be seen as successful in finding solutions for problems in society. While doing so, the…
The liberal view of economics has taken root in the large majority of the world. Conventional liberal wisdom holds that the private sector is more efficient and client-orientated than the public sector. Therefore, the many of the goods and services traditionally delivered by the…
This paper is an account of the presentation and discussion that took place at the conference and a summary of the state of affairs. We shall briefly outline the underlying causes of the Californian energy crisis and the implications of the crisis for the…
This paper is an account of the presentations and discussions held at the conference and a summary of the state of affairs. We try to give a brief overview of developments in the United Kingdom, the Netherlands and the European context and summarize lessons…
A presentation on possibilities for Public-Private Partnerships in railway infrastructure. By Babs van den Bergh (Public SPACE) & Bert Klerk (RailInfraBeheer). Held at the SMI Conference on Public-Private Partnerships in the Netherlands, Amsterdam, April 25, 2001 Download the presentation here: Doing Business on Several Tracks
