Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/118079 
Year of Publication: 
2003
Series/Report no.: 
Nota di Lavoro No. 45.2003
Publisher: 
Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei (FEEM), Milano
Abstract: 
This paper provides an empirical analysis of the role of political institutions in privatization. The empirical testing relies on a new political database with continuous and time-varying measures of the political-institutional setting, and of the partisan orientation of the executive. Using panel data for 21 industrialized countries in the 1977-1999 period, first we show the likelihood and the extent of privatization to be strongly and positively associated with majoritarian political systems. On the contrary, in consensual democracies privatization seems delayed by a “war of attrition” among different political actors. Second, we identify a partisan determinant of the choice of the privatization method. As theory predicts, right wing executives with re-election concerns design privatization to spread share ownership among domestic voters.
Subjects: 
Political institutions
Partisan politics
Privatization
JEL: 
D72
D78
L33
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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