NCPPP - Books and Other Publications

From the publisher: More engineers are using Design-Build-Operate as a delivery method for medium and large projects throughout all industrial sectors. Find out key differences in the Design/Build process versus the Design-Build-Operate delivery system as well as the long and short-term opportunities, obligations, responsibilities and liabilities that exist.

From the publisher: A fundamental, but mostly hidden, transformation is happening in the way public services are being delivered, and in the way local and national governments fulfill their policy goals. Government executives are redefining their core responsibilities away from managing workers and providing services directly to orchestrating networks of public, private, and nonprofit organizations to deliver the services that government once did itself. Authors Stephen Goldsmith and William D. Eggers call this new model "governing by network" and maintain that the new approach is a dramatically different type of endeavor that simply managing divisions of employees.

Governing by Network examines for the first time how managers on both sides of the aisle, public and private, are coping with the changes. Drawing from dozens of case studies, as well as established best practices, the authors tell us what works and what doesn't. Here is a clear roadmap for actually governing the networked state for elected officials, business executives, and the broader public.

Paperback: 224 pages
Publisher: Brookings Institution Press, Copublished with Innovations in American Government, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, 2004

This book is an excellent tool to showcase the success of public-private partnerships. It includes case studies from a wide array of industries, including operations and management, public safety, public works, real estate and economic development, technology, transportation, and water and wastewater. Each case study includes a project summary, and most have a picture to help represent the case study.

Paperback: 48 pages
Publisher: National Council for Public-Private Partnerships, 2003

From the publisher: This volume brings together the innovative ideas of 21 of America's leading governors and mayors expressed in their won words. The book features contributions carefully collected and selected over several years, including chapters by former Governor George Bush of Texas and Tommy Thompson of Wisconsin and Mayors Giuliani and Daley of New York and Chicago respectively.

States and cities--small and large--are represented here, and their leaders illustrate and illuminate the kinds of forward thinking that can profitably be adopted elsewhere to achieve similar success.

From the publisher: The role of government, particularly at the state and local levels, has evolved dramatically over recent years. In Making Government Work, a bipartisan collection of the nation's most innovative governors and big city mayors describe how they have made government more efficient and effective. From welfare to clean water, these original essays discuss a wide variety of issues and propose progressive solutions that will influence the thinking of all Americans interested in politics.

"Steve Savas is one of the country's leading proponents of privatization as a means not only to reduce the size and cost of government but also to improve the competition and efficient delivery of public services. As he demonstrated throughout his career, the issue of privatization of certain public services is not about public versus private, but rather about monopoly versus competition," Mayor Rudolph Giuliani.

"Privatization and Public-Private Partnerships cements Savas' position as one of the nation's most lively students of privatization. He not only makes the case about what privatization is and where it's most likely to work, but also the new strategies that have developed over the past decade. Any careful observer of these issues will have to think through the implications of this engaging book," Donald F. Kettl, University of Wisconsin-Madison

This book includes the expert view of privatization covering The Background of Privatization, The Theory of Privatization, The Practice of Privatization including Why and How to Privatize, The Results of Privatization, Obstacles of Privatization, and more. Steve Savas is a Professor at Baruch College, CUNY and serves on the NCPPP Executive Committee.

From the Publisher: In the quest to reduce costs and improve the efficiency of water and wastewater services, many communities in the United States are exploring the potential advantages of privatization of those services. Unlike other utility services, local governments have generally assumed responsibility for providing water services. Privatization of such services can include the outright sale of system assets, or various forms of public-private partnerships-from the simple provision of supplies and services, to private design construction and operation of treatment plants and distribution systems. Many factors are contributing to the growing interest in the privatization of water services. Higher operating costs, more stringent federal water quality and waste effluent standards, greater customer demands for quality and reliability, and an aging water delivery and wastewater collection and treatment infrastructure are all challenging municipalities that may be short of funds or technical capabilities. For municipalities with limited capacities to meet these challenges, privatization can be a viable alternative.

Privatization of Water Services evaluates the fiscal and policy implications of privatization, scenarios in which privatization works best, and the efficiencies that may be gained by contracting with private water utilities. Published by National Academy Press 120 pages (approximate), 6 x 9, 2002.

21st Century Highways views the worsening road congestion as one of the chief deficiencies of the existing highway programs and argues that diminished mobility is contributing to a loss of economic vitality. Having acknowledged the problem, ordinary citizens and policymakers at the federal, state, and local levels must now decide what to do about these troublesome trends. Do we get rid of the federal program, substantially reform it, or simply let it run its course and seek other mechanisms and institutions to fill the void caused by an increasingly distracted federal program that still commands extraordinary resources?

PWF is the primary source of detailed market information for public and private-sector leaders in the public-private development of transportation, water and buildings projects in the U.S. and internationally. PWF has been published monthly since January 1988 by editor-owner William G. Reinhardt. It has 34 advertisers and is read in over 15 countries by 3,500 executives in the public works infrastructure finance/contract operations/project development/and design-build business.

Subscribers receive 11 issues of the PWF newsletter (about 36 pages per month) plus an interactive database of major projects completed or under development around the world. Please visit www.PWFinance.net for more details.