Where will I see you again? My acceptance as paper presenter on the theme of public-private partnership to the University of Bristol come September - if such trip be funded by institutional grand (i.e. UP, or HOR) - could really get me here from England to Scotland. My full paper is under construction for possible publication and my abstract is entitled: Paper Title “The future is privatized – a glimpse of the Philippines infrastructure policy amidst public-private sector divide” Abstract (300 words maximum) This paper commits to the view that a clear state policy defines a government’s leadership position or in the case of collaborative governance, the viability of this partnership as built upon the idea of employing ‘private means for public ends’ (Donahue, 1989). Indicatively enough, 21st century development trends may have made social and public policy mechanistic allowing for a gear shift on the three central issues of legitimacy, accountability, and social justice. Where public-private partnerships succeed in some, they fail in others. The global infrastructure landscape is replete with cases of this apparent ‘backlash to privatization’. When governments delegate the traditional task on the public delivery of services, they do so, with public interest in sight and the only primordial motive. Private sector, on the other hand, as other non-state actors are, operates on a different kind of currency, consensus or threshold even. Thus, there must be certain ‘organizing principles over the public or private performance of collective tasks’, as Donahue is wont to say. Every state has a vision of the good society and a sound infrastructure policy would be an articulation of this objective that in turn can only be more creatively or effectively accomplished at almost no cost on the part of the government via collaborative governance defined perhaps as the ‘common goals of growth, quality, and equity’ (Charles, 2003). And there are to be conditions for a successful infrastructure program (Bitar, 2011) that hold the key for sound public-private sector collaboration in public service delivery. This paper commits to show that shared articulation of sound infrastructure policy agenda and any perceived stimulus for local and regional development must tend toward a joint, coordinative, and collaborative work thereby configuring a policy template on infrastructure policy and privatization deals that could be utilized across regions, continents, and borders.
Posted on: Fri, 15 Aug 2014 23:37:06 +0000
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