The politics of greed
| Titel: | The politics of greed : how privatization structured politics in Central and Eastern Europe / Andrew Harrison Schwartz |
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| Veröffentlicht: | Lanham, Md. [u.a.] : Rowman & Littlefield, c 2006 |
| Umfang: | XXII, 357 S. |
| Format: | Buch |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
| Schriftenreihe/ mehrbändiges Werk: |
World social change |
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| ISBN: | 0742553086 ; 9780742553088 ; 0742553078 ; 9780742553071 ; 0742553086 |
| Hinweise zum Inhalt: |
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Inhaltsverzeichnis |
X
- List of Figures
- p. vii
- Notes and Abbreviations
- p. ix
- Prologue
- p. xi
- Foreword
- p. xiii
- Acknowledgments
- p. xxi
- Introduction-Politics and Privatization
- p. 1
- Part I
- Markets, Democracy, and Privatization-The Theoretical Argument
- 1
- Neoliberal Privatization-The Dream That if You Create Private Owners, Democracy and the Market Economy Will Follow
- p. 23
- Part II
- Institutionalism and Beyond-Introducing Ownership Regime Theory
- 2
- Institutional Policy Design, Politics, and the Creation of Capitalism
- p. 45
- 3
- Ownership Regimes-The Basic Model of How They Form
- p. 59
- 4
- The Two Trajectories of Ownership Regime Evolution
- p. 75
- Part III
- Czech Privatization as the Illustrative Case of the Ownership Model of Political Economy
- 5
- Elite Approval-November 1989 to May 1990
- p. 85
- 6
- Legitimating the Giveaway-June 1990 to February 1991
- p. 129
- 7
- Creating Plutocracy-February 1991 to May 1992
- p. 157
- 8
- Implementing the Ownership Regime-February 1991 to December 1995
- p. 185
- 9
- The Abuses of Plutocracy, the Failure of Czech Neoliberalism-January 1996 to December 1997
- p. 229
- 10
- Political and Economic Implications of Czech Rapid Privatization
- p. 269
- Part IV
- Conclusions-Ownership Regime Theory in Comparative Perspective
- 11
- Plutocracy Escaped, Plutocracy Avoided, Plutocracy Embedded
- p. 289
- References
- p. 323
- Index
- p. 341
- About the Authors
- p. 357
