Public-Private Partnerships and the Democratic Deficit: Is Performance-Based Legitimacy the Answer?

Abstract

There is a paradox surrounding the development over the past couple of decades of public management and the rearticulation of market values and norms in public governance. Liberal democratic theory is based on a separation of the political system from its environment, or, slightly differently phrased, between governors and the governed. This separation serves to protect both the governing elite and their institutions from societal encroachment and also to place rather distinct boundaries on the exercise of political power. It is believed to be in the interest of both state and society that this border is upheld. Yet we have seen an unprecedented wave of market values, norms, and ideals from the private sector successfully penetrate the state. Thus, the market — the sector that liberal democratic theory sought to protect by constraining the powers of the state — has made significant inroads to the very locus of the powers from which it was to be protected. These keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves.

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