Schwarze Löcher der Verantwortung: Korruption — Die negative Variante von Public-Private Partnership

Conceptualizing Corruption in Public Private Partnerships

“…Actions thatdirectly or indirectlyimprove one's position within the social network are undertaken (von Arnim et al 2006). Here, often a time lag exists between the corrupt practice and the benefit from it: The investment occurs at t 1 , while the return on investment (RoI) occurs in t 1 or t 2 or even later (Priddat 2005).…”

“…Second, and closely related to the first point, competition may be distorted: if the private enterprise is able to suppress the market mechanism through successful corruption, it becomes a price maker instead of being a price taker, relatively similar to the classic monopoly situation, even if it could not exist in a competitive environment (Priddat 2005). Hence, corruption can render an inefficient bidder the successful, winning biddera special form of adverse selection.…”

“…Lastly, nepotism or corruption comes to the disadvantage of "weak interest" in the public sector (Sack 2004): as through PPPs the existing principal-agent problems can be modified in the sense thatdue to asymmetric information and fiscal leewaypolitical or public interest becomes less important than the business interests of the oligopolistic market players. Biased PPP regimes therefore act as a kind of monopolization of semi-open market situations (Priddat 2005). This problem becomes even more obvious because merely the public partner is bound by public law and political rationales, which do not apply to the private enterprise.…”

Korruption und die Ordnung der Geheimhaltung: zwischen ethischer Herausforderung und Doppelmoral

“…Sandel 2012: 46). Korruption ist insbesondere von der institutionellen Rahmenordnung abhängig und setzt oftmals als breit angelegtes Netzwerk an deren systemischen Schwachstellen an (vgl Beck/Nagel 2012;Stenner 2011;Schmid 2011;Priddat 2005),. so dass eine individualisierte bzw.…”