Public-private partnerships (PPPs) have become an essential vehicle for infrastructure development worldwide. Theoretical arguments primarily focus on build-operate-transfer (BOT) agreements as a canonical form of PPP, though they rarely discuss the political underpinnings of governments'...

Do political institutions moderate the influence of corruption on privately financed infrastructure projects? We argue that electoral competition increases the cost of corruption for private partners and focuses politicians' attention on providing projects with public (rather than private)...

We undertake the first quantitative and broadly comparative study of the structure and performance of partnership communities to our knowledge. Our study addresses several important research questions. How connected are the members of partnership communities? How can we understand the quality of...