Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: Privatising the World?
  • Part I. International Privatisation Policy
  • Chapter 1. The Internationalisation of Privatisation
  • 1.1 Introduction
  • 1.2 The Growth of Public Ownership
  • 1.3 The Challenge to Public Ownership
  • 1.4 Explaining the Spread of Privatisation: Prevailing Orthodoxies, Received Wisdom and the Policy Community
  • 1.5 Explaining the Spread of Privatisation: The Role of International Institutions in Developed Countries
  • 1.6 Explaining the Spread of Privatisation: The Role of International Institutions in Developing and Former Socialist Countries1.7 The Case of Electricity
  • 1.8 Conclusions
  • Chapter 2. The Legal Techniques of Privatisation
  • 2.1 Introduction
  • 2.2 Common Problems
  • 2.3 Changes of Ownership, Activities, and Assets
  • 2.4 Transformation and Liquidation
  • 2.5 Conclusion
  • Chapter 3. Privatization and “Popular Capitalismâ€?: The Case of Japan
  • 3.1 Introduction
  • 3.2 The Case of Zaibatsu Dissolution
  • 3.3 Dispersion of Frozen Shares
  • 3.4 Case of NTT (Nihon Telegraph & Telephone)3.5 Illusion of “Popular Capitalismâ€?
  • Part II. The Retreat of the State in the Advanced Industrial Economies
  • Chapter 4. Privatization American Style: The “Grand Illusionâ€?
  • 4.1 Introduction
  • 4.2 Privatization and Economic Performance
  • 4.3 Privatization and Deficit Reduction
  • 4.4 Privatization and Economic Growth
  • 4.5 Privatization and Union Power
  • 4.6 Privatization and “Popular Capitalismâ€?
  • 4.7 Conclusion
  • Chapter 5. Privatising State Owned Housing
  • 5.1 Introduction
  • 5.2 Privatisations5.3 Preconditions for Extensive Privatisation?
  • 5.4 Council House Sales
  • 5.5 Evaluating the Effects of Policy
  • 5.6 What has been Sold and Where?
  • 5.7 Who Buys?
  • 5.8 Gainers and Losers
  • 5.9 Other Aspects
  • 5.10 The Context for Housing Privatisation
  • 5.11 Conclusions
  • Chapter 6. Commerce vs. Politics: Compulsory Competitive Tendering and the Determination of Employment Policy in a British Local Authority
  • 6.1 Introduction
  • 6.2 The â€?Problemâ€? of Management
  • 6.3 Employment Relations in Local Government
  • 6.4 The Development of Compulsory Competitive Tendering6.5 Direct Service Organisations: Corporate vs. Commercial Pressures
  • 6.6 Competition and Employment Practice
  • 6.7 Competition: Changing Managerial Style and Employee Relations?
  • Chapter 7. Steel, State, and Industrial Relations: Restructuring Work and Employment Relations in the Steel Industry
  • 7.1 Introduction
  • 7.2 Economic Decline and Plant Closures in the First Wave of Restructuring
  • 7.3 The Political Context: State and Steel Industry