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political economy of privatization in rich democracies
1 online resource : illustrations (black and white), maps (black and white)
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.
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.
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.
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.
Herbert Obinger, Carina Schmitt, and Stefan Traub.
Includes bibliographical references and index.