"Introduction" [2020] ELECD 40; in Valaguzza, Sara; Parisi, Eduardo (eds), "Public Private Partnerships" (Edward Elgar Publishing, 2020) x

Book Title: Public Private Partnerships

Editor(s): Valaguzza, Sara; Parisi, Eduardo

Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing

Section Title: Introduction

Number of pages: 19

Abstract/Description:

The introThe introduction to the book puts the reader in medias res, picturing examples of public private partnerships that show forms of cooperation between the public and the private sector carried out in order to satisfy a community’s need. Declaring the intention to further the juridical debate on public private partnership as an interesting phenomenon able to curve some transversally accepted dogmatic principles of administrative action and, at the same time, absorb the private sectors into a social dimension, the authors recall the main directions of the academic reasoning on public private partnership, setting the book within the public law debate on the topic. Next, the question of the definition of public private partnership is posed as a critical issue to solve in order to reconstruct a theoretical framework of the figure. Lastly, the perspective assumed in the book is summarized and described.duction to the book puts the reader in medias res, picturing examples of public private partnerships that show forms of cooperation between the public and the private sector carried out in order to satisfy a community’s need. Declaring the intention to further the juridical debate on public private partnership as an interesting phenomenon able to curve some transversally accepted dogmatic principles of administrative action and, at the same time, absorb the private sectors into a social dimension, the authors recall the main directions of the academic reasoning on public private partnership, setting the book within the public law debate on the topic.