Privatizing the State

Inbunden, Engelska, 2004

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Beskrivning

In the new global political economy, "privatization" names a transformation of the roles of public and private actors with the goal of reforming government policies and economic aid programs. It is an objective, a slogan, a fetish. But what does it signify? On the one hand, it refers to the process of changing industries, businesses, and services from governmental or public ownership to private agencies. But privatization now also extends to what are normally the prerogatives of national states: taxation, customs, internal security, national defense, and peace negotiations. In much of the literature, privatization is associated with the retreat, decline, or even demise of the state. Using Max Weber's concept of delegation, or "discharge," as a point of departure, Hibou and the contributors of this volume propose an alternative view, interpreting the contemporary restructuring of economic and political relations in much of the world as "the privatization of the state." This book challenges received ideas about the process of globalization and its presumed homogenization by suggesting that rather than weakening the powers of the state, privatization actually strengthens it.With examples from Russia, Poland, China, Taiwan, Indonesia, North Africa, and sub-Saharan Africa, the book questions the supposed inefficiency of states in regulating capitalism and the role economic and financial knowledge play as substitutes for political and social analysis.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2004-10-14
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:CERI Series in Comparative Politics and International Studies
Antal sidor:279
Förlag:Columbia University Press
ISBN:9780231134644
Översättare:Jonathan Derrick

Utforska kategorier

Konstitution: stat och regering inom Samhälle och politik

Mer om författaren

Beatrice Hibou is a researcher with the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) at the Centre d'Etudes et de Recherches Internationales (CERI) in Paris. She is the coauthor of The Criminalization of the State in Africa.

Recensioner i media

Privatizing the State is an exciting book that will appeal to readers across many disciplines and to specialists on Africa, the Middle East, East and Southeast Asia, China, Russia, and Eastern Europe. The audience will include students in political economy, development economics, economic anthropology, critics of the IMF and the World Bank (including many from within those institutions), and almost anyone interested in making sense of the supposed 'failures' of neoliberal reform, the power attributed to the processes of globalization, or the current political and economic crises that appear to characterise so many regions of the world. -- Timothy Mitchell, New York University Likely to appeal to theoretical political scientists... Recommended Choice Profitable reading for scholars and graduate students. International Studies Review

Innehållsförteckning

Introduction: From Privatising the Economy to Privatising the State, by Beatrice Hibou Part I. Privatisation of State Enterprises From Corruption to Regulation: Post-Communist Enterprises in Poland, by Francois Bafoil Shenyang: Privatisation in the Vanguard of Socialism, by Antoine Kemen Part II: Privatisation of International Relations Privatisation of Sovereignty and the Survival of Weak States, by William Reno Non-Sovereign Power: New Regulatory Authorities and Change in the Lake Chad Basin States, by Janet Roitman Fictitious Privatisation: Relations with Taiwan, by Francoise Mengin Part III: Political Transition and Privatisation of the State Is China Becoming an Ordinary State?, by Jean-Louis Rocca Privatisation and Political Change in Soviet and Post-Soviet Russia, by Gilles Favarel-Garrigues The Pastoral Government Idea and Privatisation of the State in Indonesia, by Romain Bertrand Postface: Tenants of the House: Privatising the State and Building the Political Sphere, by Yves Chevrier