Privatization in Central and Eastern Europe: Perspectives and Approaches / Edition 1

by June G. Hopps, Demetrius S. Iatridis

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780275951320
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date:	08/27/1998
Series:	Post-Communist Cultural Studies (Hardcover)
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	224
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.62(d)
Lexile:	1460L (what's this?)

About the Author

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.

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

Editorial Reviews

Offers revised papers from three international conferences organized by the Boston College Graduate School of Social Work Privatization Project, held in 1991, 1993, and 1995. Looks at the challenges that face Central and Eastern European countries as they move from a centrally planned to a market-oriented society, with sections on perspectives and frameworks, national policies, and the state and political markets. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

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