LIST OF PANELS

Call for papers The aim of the panel is to review the position and role of ‘public’ and ‘private’ in the current public policy practice. In our panel, we are looking for papers dealing with development of tensions and synergies between the ‘public’ and ‘private’ in the sphere of public policy making. We welcome comparative works analysing countries’ experience with finding a balance between the influence and interests of the main regulators and groups of actors. We are interested in examples of complex arrangements that have managed to satisfy interests of a broad array of actors including the members of civil society and thus having a transformative effect on society. These can include policy networks or cases of Public-Private-Citizen collaboration (Hui and Hayllar 2010) backed by innovative solutions including the use of modern technologies (Dunleavy 2005) or unique system architecture. Equally welcome are contributions analysing bad practice examples of unequal policy arrangements or unbalanced partnerships. Questions asked in the panel include: What is the future of ‘public’ and ‘private’ in public policy practice? Has the boundary between the ‘private’ and ‘public’ shifted over the years and, if so, in what directions? In what type of arrangements can the private and public sector work in synergy? Has the business sector indeed been in a privileged position and, if so, how has it manifested in practice? How far have countries gone in empowering their citizens to become equal partners to both government and the business sector? What are the strategies and methods used for securing public interest in situations of a priori unequal capabilities of private and public actors? Which outcomes have resulted from different types of public and private interaction?  References Dunleavy, P. et al. (2005), “New Public Management is Dead – Long Live Digital-Era Governance”, Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory, September. 467-494. Hayllar, M. R. ‘PPPs in Hong Kong: Good Governance: The essential missing ingredient’ Australian Journal of Public Administration 69 (S1), 120-131. Hui, G., Hayllar, M. R. (2010) ‘Creating Public Value in E-Government: A Public-Private-Citizen Collaboration Framework in Web 2.0’, Australian Journal of Public Administration 69 (S1), 120-131. Lindblom, Ch. E. (1977): Politics and Markets. New York: Basic Books. Osborne, S P (ed.) 2010. The New Public Governance? Emerging Perspectives on the Theory and Practice of Public Governance. London: Routledge. Pollitt, B and Bouckaert, G 2011. Public Management Reform. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Rhodes, R.A.W. 1997. Understanding Governance: Policy Networks, Governance and Accountability. Buckingham: Open University Press.

More than 30 years ago, Charles Lindblom in his work Politics and Markets (1977) identified the disparity between the influence of business and the civil society in modern democracies. This assertion provoked a lively discussion with both supporters and opponents providing evidence of their claims. The end of the 1970s then marked the advance of a new paradigm favouring models from the private sector as examples for a reform of processes in both decision-making and administrative practice in the public sector. As a result, the diffusion of government and private sector in countries inspired by the New Public Management ideas reached unprecedented levels (Osborne 2010, Pollitt and Bouckaert 2011). The era of extensive privatization of large parts of the public sector of the 1980s and 1990s may indeed have left an impression that the significance of the ‘public’ understood as the broad mass of citizens, is not growing but diminishing. Even with the emergence of Public-Private Partnerships, where ‘the 'public’ seemingly appears in a prominent position, the citizenry has not really risen to the role of an equal partner and remained to a large extent in the mode of passive consumers. (Hayllar 2010) The really important decisions still seem to be taken on the government-business basis. Nevertheless, with the wave of criticism of the New Public Management regime and radical emancipation of the civic sector, enabled partly by the spread of modern technologies over the last two decades, might signal another shift in the balance of power and boundaries between the state, business and civil society. The models like Public-Private Citizen Collaboration (Hayllar and Hui 2010) or network governance (Rhodes 1997) are coming to the spotlight. In this panel, we are thus interested in countries’ experiences with finding a balance between the influence and interests of the main regulators and groups of actors. We welcome papers dealing with tensions or synergies between the public and private sector across different areas, as well as papers focused on specific strategies and methods used by individual public or private actors to advance their interests, and on the ways public interest is secured in different countries’ contexts. Questions asked in the panel include: What is the future of ‘public’ and ‘private’ in public policy practice? Has the boundary between the ‘private’ and ‘public’ shifted over the years and, if so, in what directions? In what type of arrangements can the private and public sector work in synergy? Has the business sector indeed been in a privileged position and, if so, how has it manifested in practice? How far have countries gone in empowering their citizens to become equal partners to both government and the business sector? What are the strategies and methods used for securing public interest in situations of a priori unequal capabilities of private and public actors? Which outcomes have resulted from different types of public and private interaction?  References: Dunleavy, P. et al. (2005), “New Public Management is Dead – Long Live Digital-Era Governance”, Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory, September. 467-494. Hayllar, M. R. ‘PPPs in Hong Kong: Good Governance: The essential missing ingredient’ Australian Journal of Public Administration 69 (S1), 120-131. Hui, G., Hayllar, M. R. (2010) ‘Creating Public Value in E-Government: A Public-Private-Citizen Collaboration Framework in Web 2.0’, Australian Journal of Public Administration 69 (S1), 120-131. Lindblom, Ch. E. (1977): Politics and Markets. New York: Basic Books. Osborne, S P (ed.) 2010. The New Public Governance? Emerging Perspectives on the Theory and Practice of Public Governance. London: Routledge. Pollitt, B and Bouckaert, G 2011. Public Management Reform. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Rhodes, R.A.W. 1997. Understanding Governance: Policy Networks, Governance and Accountability. Buckingham: Open University Press.