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Partnership has become a more common term in the analysis of public policy, and especially in areas such as economic development, technology transfer and urban management (Kernaghan 1993). As both the public and private sectors find their resources constrained and both their demands and opportunities growing, they have found themselves increasingly interdependent. They also find it useful to leverage one another and to develop partnership arrangements with actors in the other sector. Increasingly, neither the public nor the private sector appears capable of performing well without the involvement of the other. As we will point out below, there are a variety of definitional problems involved in the use of the term ‘partnership’. Those conceptual problems, however, certainly have not prevented actors in the real world from engaging in a variety of arrangements that they are quite sure constitute partnerships under any reasonable definition of that term.
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Peters, B.G. (1998). ‘With a Little Help From Our Friends’: Public-Private Partnerships as Institutions and Instruments. In: Pierre, J. (eds) Partnerships in Urban Governance. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-14408-2_2
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