Public and Private Partnerships: Accounting for the New Religion

Characteristics of developers and their relations to open space conservation

“…Public-private partnerships (PPPs) have already been increasingly used as alternative to public investments aimed to provide for human needs, such as education and welfare services, as well as infrastructure and development projects (Hodge and Greve, 2005;Minow, 2003;Squires, 1996). The last two decades have witnessed the formation of PPPs also for purposes of conservation, yet mostly involving non-profit non-governmental organizations (NGOs), especially were non-urban types of open spaces are concerned (see for instance, Endicott, 1993;Thackway and Olsson, 1999).…”

The "Hierarchical Constant" as the Underlying Principle of Public-Private Partnership

“…The explicit inclusion of ethical principles in the process of interpretation of a PPP-based contract lays down a consistent legal framework which is vibrant enough to preserve the entire structure in the circumstances of tension emerging between the public and the private sector during the implementation of the PPP concept; this tension is of a sui generis nature because it does not and may not appear in that form either in public law agreements or in private law contracts. 7 The standpoint on ethics as the connecting factor between economy and the public good has its stratum in the hypothesis that the behaviour in line with the moral norms does not only lead to exercising the general public interest but also to self-realization. As corporations are constituted of individuals, promoting the ethical conduct and righteous action contributes to the development of human potentials (of individual employees) and brings more benefits to the respective company.…”

Securing Sovereignty by Governing Security through Markets

“…Managing the military, the police and security through markets became imaginable. The "neo-liberal revolution" with the accompanying new public management could be extended also to the defense sector (Brauer 1998;Bislev, Hansen, and Salskov-Iversen 2002;Minow 2003). Market competition and "post-Fordism" could be introduced.…”