• Integrating the public and private component of a local/regional community in long term relationship may foster political-patrons and corruption, favors lobbies and not take in consideration social issues.
• The joint definition of goals and decision-process are vulnerable to misinterpretation, asymmetric information, and opportunism, which lead to situations where partners stick to their own interests.
• The need for each participant to be capable of bargaining in its behalf produces a fragmentation of structures and process, which dilutes political control of decision making. This may lead to blurring of responsibilities and of accountability.27
• The negotiated decisions of the partnerships produce mutual shared responsibility which can make accountability for these decisions difficult to ascertain for the average citizen or even for the oversight organizations28.
• Participatory processes, despite their adaptable and flexible dynamic normally lack of visibility and often enable PPPs to escape from political and bureaucratic process as well as to the accountability and control which normally affects totally public sector activities.
_____________________________________________________________
27 BOVAIRD T., cit. pp. 200, 203
28 PETERS B. G., cit. pp.13