Privatizing the state
By: Béatrice Hibou, editor ; translated from the French by Jonathan Derrick.
Contributors: Hibou, Béatrice.
Edition: [English ed.].
Series: The CERI series in comparative politics and international studies; CERI series in comparative politics and international studies
Publisher: Columbia University Press; In association with the Centre d'Etudes et de Recherches Internationales
Published: 2004
Place of publication: New York; Paris
Language: eng
Number of pages: 261
Subjects: Privatization
Work titles: Privatisation des Etats. English.
Description: "This book challenges received ideas about the process of globalization and its presumed homogenization by suggesting that rather than weakening the powers of the state, privatization actually strengthens it. With examples from Russia, Poland, China, Taiwan, Indonesia, North Africa, and sub-Saharan Africa, the book questions the supposed inefficiency of states in regulating capitalism and the role economic and financial knowledge play as substitutes for political and social analysis."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Translation of: La privatisation des Etats.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: From privatising the economy to privatising the state: an analysis of the continual formation of the state / Béatrice Hibou; title: From corruption to regulation: post-communist enterprises in Poland / François Bafoil; title: Shenyang, privatisation in the vanguard of Chinese socialism / Antoine Kernen; title: The privatisation of sovereignty and the survival of weak states / William Reno; title: Power is not sovereign: the pluralisation of economic regulatory authority in the Chad basin / Janet Roitman; title: A pretence of privatisation: Taiwan's external relations / Françoise Mengin; title: Is China becoming an ordinary state? / Jean-Louis Rocca; title: Privatisation and political change in Soviet and post-Soviet Russia / Gilles Favarel-Garrigues; title: 'Asal bapak senang' (as long as it please the master): the pastoral idea and privatisation of the state in Indonesia / Romain Bertrand; title: Postface: privatisation and the historical paths of the political / Yves Chevrier.