Politics and Policies in Post-Communist Transition : Primary and Secondary Privatisation in Central Europe and the Forner Soviet Union

Front cover -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Table of Contents -- List of Graphs -- List of Tables -- Acknowledgments -- Foreword and overview -- 1 Introduction -- 1.1 The background -- 1.2 (Another) delimitation of the subject -- 1.3 Managerial power and the bogey of spontaneous privatisation -- 2 Privatisation: why and how? -- 2.1 The need for privatisation and the irrelevance of longterm considerations -- 2.2 The limited applicability of the classical solution -- 2.3 Selling at equitable prices -- 2.4 Search for other equitable-preferential-solutions on the basis of political and ideological considerations -- 3 An overview of the processes of primary privatisation in the six countries -- 3.1 Primary privatisation leaving limited space for secondary privatisation-Hungary -- 3.2 Primary privatisation-the Czech Republic -- 3.3 Primary privatisation-Russia -- 3.4 Primary privatisation-Ukraine -- 3.5 Primary privatisation-Poland -- 3.6 Primary privatisation-Slovenia -- 4 Secondary privatisation in (essentially only) five countries -- 4.1 Secondary privatisation-the Czech Republic -- 4.2 Secondary privatisation-Poland -- 4.3 Secondary privatisation-Slovenia -- 4.4 Secondary privatisation-Russia -- 4.5 Secondary privatisation-Ukraine -- 5 Primary and secondary privatisation-countries of slow and rapid concentration of the ownership structure -- 5.1 Differences in corporate governance systems -- 5.2 Once again on the differences of patterns of primary privatisation (and on why insider ownership is problematic) -- 5.3 A finding that remains unexplained -- 6 The speed of secondary privatisation and the characteristics of political transition -- 6.1 Transition indicators and the quality of governance -- 6.2 Interpenetration between public administration and company management in the countries of slow secondary privatisation.