Ebook: Privatizing the State
Author: Hibou Béatrice
- Tags: Privatization Privatisation Privatisierung Staat Öffentliche Aufgaben
- Series: CERI series in comparative politics and international studies.
- Year: 2004
- Publisher: Columbia University Press
- City: New York
- Language: English, French
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"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 Read more...