Eleventh Global Studies Conference

Abstract

Public-private partnerships (PPPs) are the trendy answer to governments’ difficulties and needs from advanced societies to the developing world. In fact, PPPs may present a one-shot solution for two key puzzles that governments wish to solve: tap into private sector capital and better control of private partners through performance-based contracts. Using policy diffusion as theoretical framework and through standard Duration Analysis of an original database consisting of time series annual data from 1990 to 2016 for fifty-two countries supplemented by three case studies, we analyze which political and economic factors influence the establishment of a PPP program by a country. We also reflect upon possible impacts of such factors being key drivers of a PPP policy adoption in a country.