Towards a Design Framework for Legitimate Public Private Partnerships: A General Approach Applied to Innovative Renewable Energy Infrastructures

摘要

This article provides a framework to guide the choice and design of a fitting Public PrivatePartnerships (PPP), which is applied to a Dutch example of biogas/sustainable energyprojects. The framework focuses on ‘legitimate public governance’, merging Beetham’s dimensionsof legitimacy (legality, shared beliefs and consent) with three types of governancemechanisms (market, network and hierarchy). This leads to three types of PPP, and six phasesof design, allowing governments to perform an ex ante analysis, by which legal form ofPPP-type follows PPP-function, while securing andmonitoring legitimate public governance.