Overview

Central and Eastern European countries are facing the transition from central to market systems with different strategies and capacities. As the task of societal transformation is without precedent in world history, the massive economic restructuring has revealed the need for distributive justice and general well-being. As the editors and contributors to this volume point out, the monolithic preoccupation with economic restructuring in a market economics framework is implemented at the expense of social protection and security. In contrast to traditional views of privatization as only an economic or managerial phenomenon, this collection approaches privatization as a broader integrated process of societal transformation. Privatization as defined here consists of integrated processes of societal restructuring that affect sociopolitical, economic, and ideological constructs as well as human and physical capital development, transformation of family structures, market stabilization, and organization of social care. Public policymakers as well as scholars and researchers of contemporary Eastern Europe will find this collection of great interest, and an important challenge to the economic models of privatization which undervalue social costs.

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Author:   June G. Hopps ,  Demetrius S. Iatridis
Publisher:   Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Imprint:   Praeger Publishers Inc
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 1.50cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.501kg
ISBN:  

9780275951320

ISBN 10:   0275951324
Pages:   224
Publication Date:   27 August 1998
Recommended Age:   From 7 to 17 years
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Preface Perspectives and Frameworks: Transition To What? A Global Approach to Privatization by Demetrius S. Iatridis Privatization, Competition, and Structural Change in Eastern Europe by Martin C. Spechler Privatization and Reform of Public Enterprise: An Overview of Trade-Offs, Experiences, and Outcomes by Gerd Schwartz and Paulo Silva Lopes National Policies Privitization in Estonia by Mait Miljan and Kuino Turk The Czech Republic's Privatization Experience by Thomas D. Hopkins Economic Reforms in the Baltics: The Case of Lithuania by Valdas Samonis The Concept of Mass Privatization in Poland: Theoretical and Practical Considerations by Jacek Klich Privatization in Romania: Present State and Perspectives by Ovidiu Nicolescu Economic Perspectives on Privatization in Russia: 1990-1994 by Thomas E. Weisskopf Slovenia: A Case Study of the Challenges of Privatization by Kenneth Zapp The Privatization Process in Bulgaria by Svetlana Alexandrova Privatization and Restructuring in Croatia by Mate Babi'c The State and Political Markets State and Market in Romanian Social Policy by Livia Popescu Corporate Interests and the Politics of Transition in Russia: 1991-1994 by Neil Robinson Privatization and Oligarchy in Post-Communist Russia by Miroslav K. Popov and Elka N. Todorova Conclusion Index

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DEMETRIUS S. IATRIDIS, Chair of Policy Planning at Boston College Graduate School of Social Work, is a policy planner as well as an author of several books, and he teaches policy analysis and theory of planning. JUNE GARY HOPPS is Dean and Professor at the Boston College Graduate School of Social Work. She has coauthored or coedited several books.

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