1. The Motivation: Public Private Partnerships are attracting attention in both scholarly and policy discourses. They are an increasingly popular public policy option in developed and developing economies. If PPPs are here to stay, we need to know what happens in a real life scenario. Academic...

This presentation was made in the International Public Policy Conference in IIM Bangalore in August 2013. It traces the complex and meandering process of land acquisition and the micro managerial processes of decision making for the Bangalore international Airport. The qualitative case study...