Friends, Enemies, or Strangers? On Relationships between Public and Private Sector Service Providers in Hybrid Forms of Governance

Friends, Enemies, or Strangers

Bibliographic Data

ID6090467
AuthorsJeroen Van Der Heijden (0000-0001-6188-0556, Australian National University, corresponding author)
Year2011
Volume33
Issue3
Pages367-390
Publication date2011-07-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueLaw & Policy (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0265-8240 • E-ISSN: 1467-9930
PublisherWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1111/j.1467-9930.2011.00344.x
OpenAlexW2170819475
LanguageEN
Citations received7
References cited62

Hybrid forms of governance receive special attention in literature on regulatory reforms. It is often assumed that a combination of public and private sector involvement in a regulatory regime is superior to "pure public" or "pure private" regimes. By paying close attention to such hybrids, this article finds that hybrids have two key dimensions: first, the "amount" of public and private sector involvement in a hybrid, and second, the relationship between these sectors. Contrary to the former dimension, the latter hardly receives any attention in scholarship. This article addresses that knowledge gap. It introduces a typology of hybrids based on these two dimensions. A brief case study is introduced to discuss the value of the focus on relationships between public and private sector service providers

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