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Acknowledgements -- Contents -- List of Contributors -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- Chapter 1: Introduction: The Nordic Modelin Transition -- Introduction -- Central Concepts and Reform Trajectories:Divergence or Convergence? -- The Drivers of Reforms: Public Management Reform Development Models -- The Effects of Reform -- Administrative Traditions in Europe and the Nordic Model -- A Nordic Model -- A Most Similar System Design -- The Model of Analysis -- Dependent Variables -- Independent Variables -- Outline of Chapters

The global financial crisis hit the world in a remarkable way in late 2008. Many governments and private sector organizations, who had considered Public-Private Partnerships (PPPs) to be their future, were forced to rethink their strategy in the wake of the crisis, as a lot of the available private funding upon which PPPs relied, was suddenly no longer available to the same extent. At the same time, governments and international organizations, like the European Union, were striving to make closer partnerships between the public sector and the private sector economy a hallmark for future policy initiatives.

If public-private partnerships are here to stay, how are they brought to use by governments and can we learn anything from the scant experience with such partnerships so far? This article addresses this question and others by examining the experience with public-private partnerships in Scandinavia. Scandinavia has a long tradition of preferring cooperative arrangements and forging consensus between different organizational types. In recent years, reforms have mostly concentrated on reforms within the public sector itself. However, there has been a pressure by the governments to establish more close contact with private sector providers (PPP). One obvious way for Scandinavian governments would then be to pursue establishing PPPs as the main form of cooperation with the private sector.