This volume argues for a governance perspective on infrastructure.

• 1: Kai Wegrich, Genia Kostka and Gerhard Hammerschmid: The challenges of infrastructure: complexitiy, (ir)rationalities, and the search for better governance


• Part I Theoretical Perspectives


• 2: Infrastructure governance as political choice


• 3: Accountability challenges in the governance of infrastructure


• 4: Infrastructure and the principle of the hiding hand


• Part II Delivering Infrastructure


• 5: Risk management for megaprojects


• 6: Public-private partnership: a framework for private sector involvement in public infrastructure projects


• 7: Scale, risk, and construction cost overruns for electricity infrastructure: governance and policy implications


• 8: Improving Public Procurement


• Part III Regional Challenges


• 9: Infrastructure for whom? Corruption risks in infrastructure provision across Europe


• 10: Pioneer risks in large infrastructure projects in Germany


• 11: The governance of infrastructure in multiparty presidentialism


• 12: Strategic environmental assessment and public participation in infrastructure siting: Klickitat County, Washingtons wind energy overlay zone

The Hertie School of Governance is an international teaching and research centre of excellence in Berlin, Germany that prepares students for leadership positions in government, business, and civil society. An internationally-recruited faculty, interdisciplinary in outlook, research, and teaching, offers analytically-challenging and practice-oriented courses on governance, policy analysis, management, and leadership and helps students grow intellectually in a professional, research-intensive environment, characterised by public debate and engagement. The School was founded in 2003 as a project of the Hertie Foundation, which remains its major partner.
Kai Wegrich is Professor of Public Management, Hertie School of Governance.
Genia Kostka is Professor of Governance of Energy and Infrastructure, Hertie School of Governance.
Gerhard Hammerschmid is Professor of Public and Financial Management, Hertie School of Governance.