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The partnership involves cooperation – i.e., “to work or act together.” A partnership can be defined as a collaboration between people or organizations in public or private sector for mutual benefit. Public-private partnership (PPP), according to Harding, (1990) is “any action which relies on the agreement of actors in the public and private sectors and which also contributes in some way to improving the urban economy and the quality of life” (p. 110). In the United States, PPP plays a vital role to restore local and urban communities (Osborne 2000)
Introduction
Public-private partnerships between state and local governments are often advocated as a “best-of-both-worlds” substitute to public provision and privatization. The government decides for a public-private partnership with an assumption that collaboration offers a better way to finance infrastructure without adding burden to the public debt (Wang 2015). PPP...
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Subedi, M. (2020). Public-Private Partnership and Bureaucracy. In: Farazmand, A. (eds) Global Encyclopedia of Public Administration, Public Policy, and Governance. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-31816-5_3823-2
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