TEISMAN, Geert R <br/><br/>
Partnership arrangements :  governmental rhetoric or governance scheme? 

 - Malden, MA :  Blackwell Publishers,  mar./apr.2002 
<br/><br/> It has become popular to advocate partnership arranements.Such partnerships may be seen a new forms of governance, which fit in whit the imminet network society. However, the idea of parnership is often introduced without much reflection on the need to reorganize policy-making processes and to adjust existing institutional structures. In this contribution, we discuss the ambiguity of partnerships. An empirical basis is provided means of an analysis of the policy making on the expansion of the Rotterdam harbor. this case indicates that although new policy making on the expansion of the Rotterdam harbor. This case indicates that although new governance schemes are being proposed and explored, they still have to comply with the existing procedures in which they are imbedded.. Governments specially are not prepared to adjust to governance arrangements. Policy making continues to be based on self-referential organizational decisions, rather than on joint interorganizational policy making. This raises questions about the added value of intended cooperative governance processes