City Politics.

Anton, Thomas J.; Banfield, Edward C.; Wilson, James Q.; Polsby, Nelson W.; Watson, Richard A.; Williams, Oliver P.; Adrian, Charles R.

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“…Partnerships can involve the public and private sectors and civil society working together through a variety of organisational configurations and multi-sector connectivity to meet the needs of urban spaces and their populations (Hubbard et al 2002;Harding et al 2000;Watson 1999). 1 In general, partnerships can be understood as "institutionalised co-operation between the public and private sectors" which are likely to evolve as their context changes (Mullin 2002, p. 4).…”

Section: Public-private Partnerships As Mechanisms For Urban Developmentmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Public-private partnerships can be considered as a particular kind of network within cities which can form and operate in quite diverse ways (Watson 1999). These partnerships can vary in levels of formality, transparency, power-sharing and motivation (Sagalyn 2007;Flinders 2005;Mullin 2002).…”

Section: Public-private Partnerships As Mechanisms For Urban Developmentmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…As such, partnerships should be understood as reflections of the institutional culture and local context through which they emerge (Hubbard et al 2002). The purpose of a partnership can be to achieve a once off goal, perhaps a particular economic development, or they can be established to affect ongoing broader development goals such as shared service delivery, urban renewal or to improve urban economic competitiveness (Mullin 2002;Watson 1999). Regardless of the specific details of the partnership, all partnerships are formed with a view to enabling partners to share both the risks and the rewards of their collective venture (Hertzberg and Wright 2005;Mullin 2002).…”

Section: Public-private Partnerships As Mechanisms For Urban Developmentmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Negotiating the Global and the Local: Evaluating Development Through Public–Private Partnerships in Durban, South Africa

Houghton

2010

Urban Forum

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Within a context of transition, South African cities such as Durban are required to address the dual development imperatives of socio-economic redistribution and increasing global competitiveness. Processes associated with shifts to urban governance and partnerships are being drawn on to achieve these urban development goals. In 1999, the Durban Growth Coalition, a strategic partnership between business and government, emerged to address urban economic development concerns. The partnership has led to the successful planning and implementation of various flagship developments within the city. This paper evaluates the processes of the Coalition and associated projects in order to assess to what extent the partnership is successfully addressing the dual imperatives of post-apartheid redress and integration into the global economy. The paper thus critically examines the implications of using public-private partnerships as mechanisms for equitable development in South Africa and highlights the possibility of the emergence of deliberative processes of decision-making through partnerships.

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Section: Public-private Partnerships As Mechanisms For Urban Developmentmentioning

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Section: Public-private Partnerships As Mechanisms For Urban Developmentmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Public-private Partnerships As Mechanisms For Urban Developmentmentioning

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Negotiating the Global and the Local: Evaluating Development Through Public–Private Partnerships in Durban, South Africa

Houghton

2010

Urban Forum

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“…[1] On a similar point, Ken Newton's (1976) study of Birmingham shows how officer relationships with voluntary groups differed depending on the nature of the group and the degree of challenge it represented to the local authority.…”

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Professionals Under Pressure: the administration of special education in a changing context

Vincent

Evans

Lunt

et al. 1996

British Educational Res J

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This paper explores the role of professionals employed in the special education section of local education authorities (LEAs). Its examination of the political, cultural and financial contexts in which decision-making occurs is illustrated by data collected in interviews with LEA personnel in five local authorities. The first section of the paper examines the nature and effects of professional control in special education. Depoliticisation, individualisation and a concentration on technical solutions are seen as the main outcomes of professional control. The second section of the paper analyses the discourses which underpin professional notions of special education. The paper argues that it is the nature of these discourses which renders special education vulnerable to incursions by recent public sector reforms; namely managerialism and the concomitant shift towards rule-based decision-making. It concludes that the dominant discourses in special education are ill-equipped to penetrate beyond procedural issues and consider more fundamental questions about the future nature of education for all children.

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“…The difficulties in achieving this cannot be underestimated given the apparent lack of professional and political support for such a far-ranging parental role. Newton (1976) describes how parental voices were excluded from the 1970s' debates on comprehensivisation, which were conducted by teaching professionals and politicians. The recent controversy over national testing shows that little has changed.…”

Section: Education For the Communitymentioning

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Education for the community?

Vincent

1993

British Journal of Educational Studies

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This paper explores the apparently forgotten area of community education. It examines the dominant modes of community education practice, dubbed the status reform model, and concludes that one of the key explanations of its failure to change practice was its reluctance to tackle professional domination of existing power structures in education. The article also examines New Right definitions of appropriate parental roles, of citizenship, and of community. The article concludes by identifying some possible strategies to expand and enhance the roles offered by the education system to lay actors.

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Negotiating the Global and the Local: Evaluating Development Through Public–Private Partnerships in Durban, South Africa

Negotiating the Global and the Local: Evaluating Development Through Public–Private Partnerships in Durban, South Africa

Professionals Under Pressure: the administration of special education in a changing context

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