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  title info:
    non sort: The
    title: political economy of privatization in rich democracies
  name:
    name part: Obinger, Herbert
    name part: 1970-
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: Schmitt, Carl
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: Traub, Stefan
    name part: 1968-
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  genre: Electronic books.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: enk
    date issued: 2016
    edition: First edition.
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: remote
    extent: 1 online resource : illustrations (black and white), maps (black and white)
  abstract: Almost all advanced democracies have launched significant privatisation programs over the last three decades. However, while there was a global run into privatisation, substantial cross-national differences in the divesture of state-owned enterprises can be observed. This book focuses on the political economy of privatisation, and addresses many questions.
  table of contents: Cover; The Political Economy of Privatization in Rich Democracies; Copyright; Acknowledgements; Contents; List of Figures; List of Tables; 1: Introduction; The Structure of the Book; 2: The Emergence of Public Enterprises in Historical Perspective; Money for Monarchs and the Public Purse; The Great Transformation; Unification and Consolidation of Nation-States and Empires; National Defence and War; Economic Considerations; Party Politics and Ideology; The Five Ms; The Golden Age and Its Demise; 3: Determinants of Privatization and State of the Art; Economic Performance; GDP Growth Rates.
  table of contents: Fiscal Problems: Budget Deficits and Public DebtUnemployment; Inflation; The Stage of Economic Development; Actor Preferences; Political Partisanship; Interest Groups; Institutions; Consensus vs. Majoritarian Democracy; Veto Players; Legal Origin; Capital Market Development; Constitutional Provisions; The Initial Size of the SOE Sector; International Influences; Economic Integration; Europeanization; Spatial Diffusion; Upshot; 4: Mapping the Entrepreneurial State: Data and National Trajectories of Privatization; Privatization: Conceptualization and Data.
  table of contents: Mapping the Size and Change of the Entrepreneurial StateSummary; 5: The Determinants of Privatization: Empirical Findings; Convergence Analysis; Sigma Convergence; Beta Convergence; Constitutional Framework and Privatization of Public Utilities; Partisan Politics and Privatization Policies; The Diffusion of Privatization Policies; Summary; 6: Conclusion and Outlook; Public Entrepreneurship in the Long Run; The Impact of the Financial Crisis; Epilogue; APPENDIX; References; Index.
  target audience: specialized
  note: Herbert Obinger, Carina Schmitt, and Stefan Traub.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    topic: Privatization
  subject:
    topic: Privatization
  subject:
    topic: Privatisation
  subject:
    topic: Comparative Politics
  subject:
    topic: POLITICAL SCIENCE
  subject:
    topic: Public Policy
  subject:
    topic: Privatization
  classification: HD3850 .O25 2016eb
  classification: 338.925
  identifier: 9780191756078
  identifier: 0191756075
  identifier: 0191648434
  identifier: 9780191648434
  identifier: 9780199669684
  identifier: 0199669686
  identifier: http://proxy.library.tamu.edu/login
  record info:
    record content source: FIE
    record creation date: 150916
    record change date: 20260319162126.8
    record identifier: in00005713107
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng