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RE-Forming the State - The Politics of Privatization in Latin America and Europe (Paperback)
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RE-Forming the State - The Politics of Privatization in Latin America and Europe (Paperback)
Series: Interests, Identities & Institutions in Comparative Politics
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With evidence drawn from Argentina, Chile, Mexico, Great Britain,
and Hungary, "Re-forming the State" examines the processes leading
to, and the political effects of, market reform experiments and
focuses specifically on the patterns of collective action and
coalition building that drive privatization. The author's argument
calls into question established approaches in the discipline of
economics and in the fields of comparative and international
political economy.
The experience of privatization shows that the public and the
private are neither contradictory nor mutually exclusive spheres,
and that power relations between them are not necessarily zero-sum.
To stress the point, the author borrows from the literature on
state formation, which has extensively examined the historical
processes of key private groups. The evidence presented shows why
and how, by restructuring coalitional and institutional arenas, the
state uses marketization to generate political order and to
distribute political power. Thus, the author specifies the
conditions under which political change is conceived in terms of
and channeled through economic policy; in other words, how the
state is "re-formed" through privatization. "Re-forming the State"
thus highlights how privatization is simultaneously a movement from
public to private, but also a movement from non-state to state, as
the reduction of state assets leads to institutional changes that
increase state capacities for defining and enforcing property
rights, extracting revenue, and centralizing administrative and
political resources.
Hector E. Schamis is Assistant Professor of Government, Cornell
University.
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