PPP Policy, Depoliticisation, and Anti-Politics

PPP Policy, Depoliticisation, and Anti-Politics

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This article disentangles the complex relationship between depoliticisation and anti-politics in public-private partnership (PPP) policies and practices.By identifying three social mechanisms that underlie dynamics of depoliticisation in PPPs, namely consultocracy, yield bias, and complex contracting, it contrib-utes to the growing interdisciplinary literature on depoliticisation.The article argues that as depoliticisation continues to evolve, it further increases Bike Parts - Handlebars - Stems the unbalance between depoliticisation and politicisation, which has negative implications for democratic governance.The depoliticised logic behind PPPs feeds broad sen-timents of political distrust and disappointment, because political decision makers tend to use PPPs as mir-acle solutions for the delivery of public infrastructure without bearing the long-term budgetary Microphone conse-quences of their own decisions.

This constitutes an expectations gap: the difference between what is prom-ised or expected by politicians on the one hand, and what they can actually deliver on the other.It is here that the short-term rationales and incentives of political decision makers collide with the wider public inter-est in the longer term.