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Policy Space as a Lagrangian Construct: Public-Private Partnerships (PPP) in Africa

PPP brings concreteness to abstraction. The concrete projects force long term thinking. At the same time, a long view always demands abstraction. The paper is guided by the abstraction of the Lagrangian frame motivated by the performance of two PPP projects in Uganda. That way, the paper illuminates the dynamical character of the policy space of the country. It highlights stresses on the two projects, and seeks solutions. The solutions must be incremental and reflexive. That is an instruction of statistical mechanics. A diagonal matrix is synthesised to guide the argument. The attendant eigenvalues point to conditions required for incremental management of PPP in kindred countries of Africa. This incremental strategy tames policy while recognising the swirling (chaotic) space of the dynamical and non-ergodic system.