Oliver D. Cooke

Rethinking Municipal Privatization (eBook, PDF)

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Produktbeschreibung

This book examines one of the most high-profile municipal privatizations the privatization of New York City's Central Park. The fiscal crisis of the 1970s established the political and cultural opening for privatizations, which were justified on the basis of increasing efficiency. However, as Cooke demonstrates, these justifications were deliberate

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 210
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. Dezember 2007
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781135897918
• Artikelnr.: 42983834

Autorenporträt

Oliver D. Cooke

Inhaltsangabe

1. Municipal Privatization: An Introduction1.1 Institutional Forms and
Conceptions of Privatization1.2 New York City's Privatization Experience
During the 1990s2. The Evolution of the Municipal Privatization
Discourse2.1 The Development of a Theory of Privatization2.2 A Theory Comes
of Age: The 1970s Watershed and Urban Fiscal Crisis2.3 The Reagan Years2.4
The 1990s: Reinventing Government2.5 The Heterodox Terrain of the
Privatization Discourse: the 1970s and Early 1980s2.6 Retrenchment and the
Heterodox Discourse of the 1980s2.7 The Mid- to Late 1980s: Entrepreneurial
Government2.8 The 1990s: Neoliberalism and Globalization2.9 Critiquing the
Discourse: Assessing Methodology and Content3. A Class Approach to
Municipal Privatization3.1 The Class Process, Classes, and the Subsumed
Class Process3.2 Overdetermination3.3 The Implications of a Class Approach
to Municipal Privatization.Appendix: Post-Privatization Wage Outcomes4. A
Class Analysis of Central Park's Privatization4.1 The Historical Backdrop
to Central Park's Privatization4.2 A Class Analytic Interpretation of
Central Park's Privatization4.3 Conceptualizing the Central Park
Commodity4.4 The Central Park Commodity's Production4.5 A Class Analytic
Model of the Central Park Conservancy.Appendix: Estimating the Central Park
Commodity's Cost Price5. The Class Analytic Implications of Central Park's
Privatization5.1 Beyond Efficiency and Cost5.2 The Central Park
Conservancy's Fundraising and the Capitalist Sector5.3 The Central Park
Conservancy's Fundraising and the Non-profit Sector5.4 Central Park's
Privatization and Independent and Communist Producers5.5 Municipal
Privatizations as Ensembles6. Rethinking Municipal Privatization6.1
Non-Progressive Municipal Privatizations6.2 Non-Capitalist Enterprises and
their Viability in the Context of Municipal Privatization6.3 Progressive
Municipal Privatizations: Democratic Enterprise Formation6.4 The Policy
Merits of Progressive Municipal Privatizations6.5 Rethinking Municipal
Privatization on the Left7. Rethinking the Privatization of State-Owned
Enterprises7.1 The Global Privatization Movement7.2 The Motives for
Privatizations7.3 Methods of Divestiture7.4 What Privatizations of
State-Owned Enterprises have done and not done: a Class Analytic
Interpretation7.5 Theorizing Progressive Privatizations Involving
State-Owned Enterprises7.6 The Policy Implications of Progressive
Privatizations