This paper reviews the current thinking on institutions and finds that the notion of legitimacy is incompletely developed in the pervasive collective action model of new institutional economics. It argues that institutional legitimacy should be conceived as a set of <italic>normative incentives</italic>...

The move from government to governance and the corresponding rise in the number and use of third‐party tools by government has led to a new paradigm variously called New Public Management or “new governance.” While this paradigm provides a strong framework for tool management and...

This paper examines the impact of public opinion, time, and the ‘yuck' factor in influencing the formation of water reuse norms based on an analysis of newspaper content observed in two locations: Singapore and Queensland, Australia. A simple regression analysis shows that time and the...

Despite the growing need for private sector participation (PSP) in the water sector, private sector investments in the water sector have experienced a downturn in recent years, especially concession projects, which accounted for nearly 80 percent of all PSP projects in urban water utilities from...

Water reuse is an efficient way of managing water resources in cities, but reuse policies have often been derailed by the 'yuck' factor. While yuck has often been thought of as a problem of public acceptance, this paper argues that there is a more profitable way to frame the issue — as a form...

Water reuse is an efficient way of managing water resources in cities, but reuse policies have often been derailed by the ‘yuck’ factor. While yuck has often been thought of as a problem of public acceptance, this paper argues that there is a more profitable way to frame the issue — as a...

The success of regulation and other forms of state and private sector activity in areas of new technologies are dependent on a number of factors, one of which is the reaction of public opinion to the innovation concerned. Existing theories of public acceptance of controversial science-based...

The success of regulation and other forms of state and private sector activity in areas of new technologies are dependent on a number of factors, one of which is the reaction of public opinion to the innovation concerned. Existing theories of public acceptance of controversial science-based...