The public-private implementation at the regional level in Russia: health, transportation, and housing sectors in the Perm Krai

Sociology

Abstract

The growing power of state bureaucracy within the shrinking state makes revisiting of some conclusions of a research, conducted in 2007–2008, a relevant task to do. An issue of the, probably, growing distance between the latter’s agenda and the public concern for the state of public services is also the problem of governance and of corruption corroding the public funds and services. Surprisingly, the PPP studied worked in both directions. The two (transportation and health) are the cases of the development of services with the private entry adding quality and putting check to corruption. The third (water supply and sewerage) by now should rather be seen as a danger of reloading the costs of fraud, governance failures, and debts on the shoulders and purses of consumers.