This issue of PWMP opens with two Commentaries on the current state of public-private partnerships (PPP) for infrastructure. In “Do public-private partnerships still have a future?” Veronica Vecchi, Angelo Tanese, and Stephen Osborne address the mixed results achieved by PPP and the deteriorated trust between public and private actors and argue that abandoning PPP could represent a severe mistake in public policy. Carter Casady and Michael Garvin in “’Progressive’ Public-Private Partnerships: Are They Reformative or Regressive!?” discuss “progressive” PPP which refer to PPP using pre-development agreements (PDAs) to enhance collaboration between the public and private sectors. The Commentary outlines the potential benefits and pitfalls of this new approach to PPP and concludes that practitioners and academics have a crucial role to play in improving our understanding of these arrangements.

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本期 PWMP 以两篇关于基础设施公私合作伙伴关系 (PPP) 现状的评论开篇。在“公私伙伴关系还有未来吗？” Veronica Vecchi、Angelo Tanese 和 Stephen Osborne 谈到了 PPP 取得的喜忧参半的结果以及公共和私人行为者之间的信任恶化，并认为放弃 PPP 可能代表公共政策的严重错误。Carter Casady 和 Michael Garvin 在“‘进步的’公私合作伙伴关系：它们是改革性的还是倒退性的！？” 讨论“渐进式”PPP，它指的是使用预开发协议 (PDA) 来加强公共和私营部门之间合作的 PPP。