Political Economy Of Public Sector Reform And Privatization

Ezra N. Suleiman, John Waterbury

• General Context -- Introduction: Analyzing Privatization in Industrial and Developing Countries -- The New Life of the Liberal State: Privatization and the Restructuring of State-Society Relations -- Economic Rationales for the Scope of Privatization -- The International Spread of Privatization Policies: Inducements, Learning, and "Policy Bandwagoning" -- Advanced Industrial Countries -- The Politics of Privatization in Britain and France -- The Politics of Public Enterprise in Portugal, Spain, and Greece -- Public Corporations and Privatization in Modern Japan -- Developing Countries -- Capitalism in Colonial Africa: A Historical Overview -- State, Economy, and Privatization in Nigeria -- The Politics of Privatization in Africa -- Nicaragua's State Enterprises: Revolutionary Expectations and State Capacity -- China and Privatization -- The Political Context of Public Sector Reform and Privatization in Egypt, India, Mexico, and Turkey -- The Politics of Privatization in Brazil and Mexico: Variations on a Statist Theme -- Chile: Privatization, Reprivatization, Hyperprivatization -- The Politics of Economic Liberalization in India