{"title":"The politicization of public–private partnerships following a mega-project disaster: the case of the Morandi Bridge Collapse","authors":"Niccolò Cusumano, Matti Siemiatycki, V. Vecchi","doi":"10.1080/17487870.2020.1760101","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Drawing on the collapse of Morandi bridge (Genoa, Italy) exemplar and unique case and by applying a content analysis to the declarations made by politicians in the subsequent months after the tragedy, the paper highlights how longstanding debates about the relative merits of concessions vis a vis direct public operations can become the terrain of intense political contestation in the wake of a public tragedy. In particular, it shows how PPPs predicated on transferring risks to the partner best able to manage them create opportunities for blame shifting by politicians, bureaucracies and firms when failures occur.","PeriodicalId":51737,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Economic Policy Reform","volume":"25 1","pages":"173 - 189"},"PeriodicalIF":3.3000,"publicationDate":"2020-05-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/17487870.2020.1760101","citationCount":"6","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Journal of Economic Policy Reform","FirstCategoryId":"96","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17487870.2020.1760101","RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q1","JCRName":"DEVELOPMENT STUDIES","Score":null,"Total":0}
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ABSTRACT Drawing on the collapse of Morandi bridge (Genoa, Italy) exemplar and unique case and by applying a content analysis to the declarations made by politicians in the subsequent months after the tragedy, the paper highlights how longstanding debates about the relative merits of concessions vis a vis direct public operations can become the terrain of intense political contestation in the wake of a public tragedy. In particular, it shows how PPPs predicated on transferring risks to the partner best able to manage them create opportunities for blame shifting by politicians, bureaucracies and firms when failures occur.
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The Journal of Economic Policy Reform focuses on the analysis of economic policy reform. The journal draws upon what lessons can be learned from the successes and failures of countries undertaking reforms and how existing theories can be developed to shed light on positive as well as normative aspects of the reform process. The Journal of Economic Policy Reform encourages work from economists and political economy analysts on policies to promote growth and reduce poverty, intellectual property rights, aid versus trade, debt and debt relief, taxation and social security systems, surveys of key reform issues, as well as on corruption, democracy, emerging markets and the role of multilateral institutions.
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