Divergent pathways: PPP developments in the United Kingdom and the Republic of Ireland
研究了英国和爱尔兰在公私合作伙伴关系（PPP）政策上为何从相似起点走向不同结局：爱尔兰在疫情期间扩大PPP，而英国在2018年放弃。通过访谈和文件分析，揭示了政策传统（如爱尔兰的共识主义和行政中央集权）如何影响政策路径。
Ireland expanded the use of its public-private partnerships programme during the Covid-19 crisis. PPP in the UK stalled in 2018 with the abandonment of both PFI and PF2 for future projects. Both countries had commenced similar PPP procurement policies. This paper examines why, despite initially similar approaches, learning and adaption made PPP policy in Ireland sustainable while learning and adaptation in the UK was more limited, leading to the abandonment of PPP. Our learning-centered analysis of country-specific PPP pathways is, in the Irish case, supported by interviews with elite stakeholders and document analysis and, in the UK case, by an analysis of publicly accessible politician statements and government documents. Our paper contributes to the examination of how policy traditions among European countries, such as Irish consensualism and administrative centralism, can impact the pathways along which approaches to novel public policies, such as PPPs unfold.