The Child in America: Behavior Problems and Programs

(2002) Rethinking Democratic Accountability Public Integrity: Vol 4, No 3, pp 269-272

Rethinking Democratic Accountability

Public–private partnerships (PPPs) have become popular tools to deliver infrastructure and public services around the world. As an innovative public procurement approach, PPPs have drawn considerab...

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Public–private partnership in Public Administration discipline: a literature review

Originally published in Contemporary Psychology: APA Review of Books, 1993, Vol 38(9), 1000. Reviews the book, Quasi-Rational Economics by Richard H. Thaler (1992). Thaler presents 16 chapters (some written with collaborators) about “quasirational” behavior and how it affects the validity of traditional economic theories. He presents a variety of research on topics that investigate consumer choice and financial markets, and he proposes some alternate models of economic theory to suggest ways of incorporating quasi-rational thinking into the economic forecast. Although this book draws on some psychological research, Thaler advocates economists developing models for quasirational economics rather than closing up shop and leaving the job to psychoeconomists. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2006 APA, all rights reserved)

Quasi-rational Economics

Strategic planning of urban infrastructure for environmental sustainability: Understanding the past to intervene for the future

This article examines public-private partnership in light of the New Public Management and New Public Governance, showing the effect of the overlap and mix of elements generated by these paradigms. For purposes of the article, PPP is defined as a unit of analysis of a network, with particular reference to processes of coproduction and cocreation. The study explores these ideal types in the strategic planning of several Italian cities, differentiating PPPs on the basis of degree of participant involvement, a distinction based on such explanatory variables as the structure of the decision-making process, legitimacy, transparency, and accountability. Broadly speaking, the article seeks to understand how relationships among public and private partners affect partnership sustainability. The analysis highlights the prevalence of PPPs oriented toward coproduction.

Public-Private Partnerships and Network Governance: What Are the Challenges?

Public-Private Partnerships and Network Governance

The Netherlands knows a persistent threat of flooding. To adapt to this dangerous reality, the Dutch have cultivated what disaster research literature has labeled ‘disaster subcultures’ or a set of cultural (tangible and intangible) tools to deal with the recurrent hazard. While there is abundant attention for the way the Dutch ‘coastal’ and ‘low-lying’ communities deal with the recurrent threat of (coastal) flooding, less is known about the way the Dutch ‘high-lands’ deal with the yearly threat of (fluvial) flooding. This article presents the findings of an explorative research endeavor (2011–2013) aimed at discerning if the disaster subculture concept has contemporary relevance in the Netherlands, particularly with respect to flooding, and if so, whether applying this lens would reveal more about the nature of existing disaster subcultures. Because less is known about the Dutch ‘high-lands,’ we chose to look into the existence and attributes of disaster subcultures in the parishes Borgharen and Itteren, which experience a systematic threat of flooding. Our findings suggest that the disaster subculture lens is valuable as it enables the empirical appreciation of disaster subcultures, even in a small country like the Netherlands, and it unveiled elements of these neighboring parishes’ flood reality that otherwise might have gone unnoticed and that seem central to understanding these two parishes’ levels of vulnerability and resilience. It is our contention that the concept ‘disaster subculture’ makes a greater understanding possible of the cultural context from which vulnerability and resilience to specific and recurrent threats emerge.

Flood disaster subcultures in The Netherlands: the parishes of Borgharen and Itteren

Th e importance of leadership in emergency management is widely acknowledged (Demiroz & Kapucu, 2012; Kapucu & Van Wart, 2008; Rubin, 1985; Waugh & Streib, 2006). Popular culture reinforces this focus. It is common for mass media outlets (newspaper, television, cinema) to demand or portray charismatic leaders who “save the day” by simultaneously handling information, resources, and wild authority (Littlefi eld & Quenette, 2007). It is also common for real situations to be compared to these idealized images and for individuals to be hailed as heroes, as was the case for Rudy Giuliani after 9/11, or decried as villain, as was the case for both George W. Bush and Michael Brown after the impacts of Hurricane Katrina. But it is not enough to know leaders matter and make summary judgments. It is vitally important to understand how leadership in emergency management really works and the range of issues, considerations, and variables that aff ect leadership effi cacy. A systematic and thorough understanding of emer gency management leadership demands that we examine S Y M P O S I U M

Leadership in Crises, Disasters, and Catastrophes

This article contributes to the accountability studies literature by reporting on an attempt to operationalize a recursive concept of accountability grounded in Anthony Giddens’s theory of structur...

Lucia Velotti

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Public-Private Partnerships and Network Governance: What Are the Challenges?

Public-Private Partnerships and Network Governance

Flood disaster subcultures in The Netherlands: the parishes of Borgharen and Itteren

Leadership in Crises, Disasters, and Catastrophes

Operationalizing Giddens’s Recursive Model of Accountability