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1 online resource (379 pages) |
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World Social Change |
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World social change.
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| Contents |
Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; List of Figures; Notes and Abbreviations; Prologue John Zysman; Foreword David Ellerman; Acknowledgments; Introduction-Politics and Privatization; Part I Markets, Democracy, and Privatization-The Theoretical Argument; 1 Neoliberal Privatization-The Drearn That if You Create Private Owners, Democracy and the Market Economy Will Follow; Part II Institutionalism and Beyond-Introducing Ownership Regime Theory; 2 Institutional Policy Design, Politics, and the Creation of Capitalism; 3 Ownership Regilnes-The Basic Model of How They Form |
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4 The Two Trajectories of Ownership Regime EvolutionPart III Czech Privatization as the Illustrative Case of the Ownership Model of Political Economy; 5 Elite Approval-November 1989 to May 1990; 6 Legitimating the Giveaway-June 1990 to February 1991; 7 Creating Plutocracy-February 1991 to May 1992; 8 Implementing the Ownership Regime-February 1991 to December 1995; 9 The Abuses of Plutocracy, the Failure of Czech Neoliberalism-January 1996 to December 1997; 10 Political and Economic Implications of Czech Rapid Privatization Andrew Harrison Schwartz and Jiří Havel |
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Part IV Conclusions-Ownership Regime Theory in Comparative Perspective11 Plutocracy Escaped, Plutocracy Avoided, Plutocracy Embedded Andrew Harrison Schwartz and Jordan Gans-Morse; References; Index; About the Authors |
| Summary |
An in-depth political history of privatization in Central and Eastern Europe, The Politics of Greed demonstrates that the way that assets are privatized matters, both with respect to national economic performance and the successful development of the rule of law. Andrew Harrison Schwartz had unprecedented access to high-level Czech government officials during the Czech Republic's privatization process. This book is the result of the unique insights he gained and the innovative analytical framework he subsequently developed-ownership regime theory-which for the first time places ownershi |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 323-339) and index |
| Notes |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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Privatization -- Europe, Eastern
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Privatization -- Europe, Central
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Privatization -- Former Soviet republics
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BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Industries -- General.
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Privatization
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Privatisierung
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Regulierung
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Politischer Wandel
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Central Europe
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Eastern Europe
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Soviet Union -- Former Soviet republics
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Osteuropa
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Ostmitteleuropa
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2006010114 |
| ISBN |
9781461645153 |
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1461645158 |
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