Mixes and Partnerships through Time

PPP Procurement in Ireland: An Analysis of Tendering Periods

“…Mixing the economic activities of the public and private sectors has a long history and a number of PPP scholars have noted the wide span of alternative structural and institutional arrangements that have prevailed for centuries (Hodge 2013;Wettenhall 2010). According to Bovaird (2004) the PPP label dates back to the 1940s and was associated with urban regeneration initiatives in the USA during the 1960s and 1970s.…”

‘Public–private partnerships’: The Portuguese General Company of Pernambuco and Paraíba (1759)

“…We have, therefore, 40 years of experience with these partnerships during which they have been described by the term PPP, but, as indicated by, for example, Wettenhall, 21 It is not, therefore, surprising that the public administration literature argues that we need to look to history if we seek to know more about this form of entity. 29 In doing so, we may inform identification of the economic, political and social conditions that favour such public-private ventures and of those conditions that are necessary for success and, in particular, for the protection of the public interest.…”

“…Wettenhall, one of the most prolific writers on the history of the subject, has implied that the term was first used in the 1980s, citing a book published in the US during the Reagan presidency of the 1980s 18 and the proceedings of a conference held in Cleveland, Ohio in 1984, 19 but the term certainly dates from 1975 or earlier, having been used in 1975 by Dan W. Lufkin in a brief article describing a PPP between the state of Connecticut and General Electric 20 in which the author attributed the emergence of PPP to the Nixon administration's 'New Federalism' initiative, itself a concept that was no more 'new' than the concept of PPP.…”

Contemporary public–private partnership: Towards a global research agenda

“…Many aspects of PPPs have seen research: the economics of PPPs (Blanc‐Brude, Goldsmith, & Välilä, ; Boardman & Vining, ; de Bettignies & Ross, ; Vining, Boardman & Poschmann, ; Yescombe, ), project finance and management (Grimsey & Lewis, ; Hellowell & Vecchi, ; Klijn, ) and social and political aspects (Wettenhall, , ). The heady early days of the UK's launch of its Private Finance Initiative (PFI) are far behind us with much experience gained and learning on all sides (Broadbent & Laughlin, ; Hellowell, ; Hodge & Duffield, ; Jupe, ; NAO ).…”