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| Title: | | Selling off the family silver: the politics of privatization in the OECD 1990-2000  |
| Authors: | | Obinger, Herbert Zohlnhöfer, Reimut |
| Issue Date: | | 2005 |
| Series/Report no.: | | TranState working papers 15 |
| Abstract: | | The 1990s have witnessed unprecedented attempts at privatizing state owned enterprises in virtually all OECD democracies. This contribution analyzes the differences in the privatization proceeds raised by EU- and OECD-countries between 1990 and 2000. It turns out that privatizations are part of a process of economic liberalization in previously highly regulated economies as well as a reaction to the fiscal policy challenges imposed by European integration and the globalization of financial markets. In addition, institutional pluralism and union militancy yield significant and negative effects on pri-vatization proceeds. Partisan differences only emerge if economic problems are moderate, while intense economic, particularly fiscal problems foreclose differing partisan strategies. |
| Document Type: | | Working Paper |
| Appears in Collections: | | TranState Working Papers, SFB 597, Universität Bremen
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