The politics of greed : how privatization structured politics in Central and Eastern Europe /

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Main Author: Schwartz, Andrew, 1957-2004.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Lanham : Rowman & Littlefield, c2006.
Series:World social change.
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Table of Contents:
  • Neoliberal privatization : the dream that if you create private owners, democracy and the market economy will follow
  • Institutional policy design, politics, and the creation of capitalism
  • Ownership regimes : the basic model of how they form
  • The two trajectories of ownership regime evolution
  • Czech privatization as the illustrative case of the ownership model of political economy
  • Elite approval, November 1989 to May 1990
  • Legitimating the giveaway, June 1990 to February 1991
  • Creating plutocracy, February 1991 to May 1992
  • Implementing the ownership regime, February 1991 to December 1995
  • The abuses of plutocracy, the failure of Czech neoliberalism, January 1996 to December 1997
  • Political and economic implications of Czech rapid privatization
  • Plutocracy escaped, plutocracy avoided, plutocracy embedded.