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Privatizing the State
Beatrice . Ed(S): Hibou
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Description for Privatizing the State
Hardback. Using Max Weber's concept of delegation, or "discharge," as a point of departure, this book proposes an alternative view, interpreting the contemporary restructuring of economic and political relations in much of the world as "the privatization of the state". It challenges the ideas about the process of globalization. Editor(s): Hibou, Beatrice. Translator(s): Derrick, Jonathan. Series: The CERI Series in Comparative Politics & International Studies. Num Pages: 279 pages. BIC Classification: JPHC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 145 x 21. Weight in Grams: 590.
In the new global political economy, "privatization" names a transformation of the roles of public and private actors with the goal of reforming government policies and economic aid programs. It is an objective, a slogan, a fetish. But what does it signify? On the one hand, it refers to the process of changing industries, businesses, and services from governmental or public ownership to private agencies. But privatization now also extends to what are normally the prerogatives of national states: taxation, customs, internal security, national defense, and peace negotiations. In much of the literature, privatization is associated with the retreat, decline, ... Read more
In the new global political economy, "privatization" names a transformation of the roles of public and private actors with the goal of reforming government policies and economic aid programs. It is an objective, a slogan, a fetish. But what does it signify? On the one hand, it refers to the process of changing industries, businesses, and services from governmental or public ownership to private agencies. But privatization now also extends to what are normally the prerogatives of national states: taxation, customs, internal security, national defense, and peace negotiations. In much of the literature, privatization is associated with the retreat, decline, ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Columbia University Press United States
Number of pages
279
Condition
New
Series
The CERI Series in Comparative Politics & International Studies
Number of Pages
279
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780231134644
SKU
V9780231134644
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About Beatrice . Ed(S): Hibou
Beatrice Hibou is a researcher with the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) at the Centre d'Etudes et de Recherches Internationales (CERI) in Paris. She is the coauthor of The Criminalization of the State in Africa.
Reviews for Privatizing the State
Privatizing the State is an exciting book that will appeal to readers across many disciplines and to specialists on Africa, the Middle East, East and Southeast Asia, China, Russia, and Eastern Europe. The audience will include students in political economy, development economics, economic anthropology, critics of the IMF and the World Bank (including many from within those institutions), and almost ... Read more