Hybrid contractual landscapes of governance: Generation of fragmented regimes of public accountability through urban regeneration
Hybrid contractual landscapes of governance: Generation of fragmented regimes of public accountability through urban regeneration
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10.1177/2399654420932577
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2020-07
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T. Taşan-Kok;R. Atkinson;Maria Lucia Refinnetti Martins
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作者：
T. Taşan-Kok;R. Atkinson;Maria Lucia Refinnetti Martins
在本文中，我们探讨了当代城市创业治理中的公共问责理念，这些城市受到市场依赖和私营部门参与的影响。我们特别注重通过混合契约治理格局来分散公共问责，在这种治理格局中，公共部门和私营部门行为者互动地制定各种工具，以确保服务业绩。这与城市规划机构为维护公共利益而呼吁的传统模糊规范和价值观形成了鲜明对比。我们认为，在这些复杂的契约治理环境中，公共问责是由公共和私营部门行为者通过高度不同的一套契约关系和不同的控制工具产生的，这些契约关系和控制工具界定了在依赖市场的规划和政策制定环境中参与项目的不同行为者的责任，这种环境包含由公私合作的具体规则设定的特定背景特征。这些复杂性意味着，公共问责已变得支离破碎，在很大程度上沦为绩效控制。此外，我们对契约型城市治理的理解仍然模糊和不明确，因为实证研究非常有限，侧重于契约型城市开发的实际技术。通过破译契约治理的复杂混合图景，结合荷兰、英国和巴西的比较经验证据，我们展示了公共问责如何在政策和计划实施过程中赋予更“契约”和不可预测的含义。
In this article we explore the idea of public accountability in the contemporary entrepreneurial governance of cities, which are influenced by market dependency and private sector involvement. We specifically focus on the fragmentation of public accountability through hybrid contractual landscapes of governance, in which the public and private sector actors interactively produce a diversity of instruments to ensure performance in service. This is in sharp contrast to the traditional vague norms and values appealed to by urban planning institutions, to safeguard the public interest. We argue that within these complex contractual governance environments public accountability is produced by public and private sector actors, through highly diverse sets of contractual relations and diverse control instruments that define responsibilities of diverse actors who are involved in a project within a market-dependent planning and policy making environment, which contains context-specific characteristics set by the specific rules of public-private collaboration. These complexities mean public accountability has become fragmented and largely reduced to performance control. Moreover, our understanding of contractual urban governance remains vague and unclear due to very limited empirical studies focusing on the actual technologies of contractual urban development. By deciphering the complex hybrid landscapes of contractual governance, with comparative empirical evidence from The Netherlands, UK and Brazil, we demonstrate how public accountability is assuming a more ‘contractual’ and unpredictable meaning in policy and plan implementation process.