Privatisation and regulation : a review of the issues

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1. Privatization and regulation - a review of the issues, Peter M. Jackson and Catherine M. Price: fiscal crisis the new model theoretical foundations privatisation and regulation the political dimension the achievements privatisation and developing countries privatisation in centrally planned economies decentralisation and the contract state privatisation and efficiency. Part 2 Divestiture of public sector assets, Mike Wright and Steve Thompson: the rationale, form and method of privatisation privatisation issues privatisation in Central and Eastern Europe conclusions. Part 3 Economic regulation of privatised monopolies, Catherine Price: objectives of regulation models of regulation regulatory development in the UK characteristics of regulation and their development. Part 4 Deregulation, Tom Weyman-Jones: traditional views on regulation models for analysing deregulation I: contestability models for analysing deregulation II: public choice theory applications of the deregulation models auctions and broadcasting deregulation future deregulation and the access issue assessing the gains and losses from deregulation. Part 5 The new public sector management - surrogate competition and contracting out, Peter M. Jackson: the new public sector management internal/quasi markets managed competition - the NHS contracting out - local authority services local management of schools decentralisation and contracting - central government problems within the PSM paradigm. Part 6 Nationalisation, privatisation, and agency status within government - testing for the importance of ownership, David Parker and Julia O'Connell Davidson: the case for privatisation the organisations studied and the performance measures used results. Part 7 Metamorphosis? Privatisation and the restructuring of management and labour: privatisation and restructuring - an overview privatisation and organisational structures markets, profits and efficiency. Part 8 Markets in health care, Ray Robinson: market failure and government intervention the new style NHS market objectives and performance in the new health market. Part 9 Privatisation in the former centrally planned economies, Timothy Ash et al: why privatise? special problems of privatisation in the former CPEs the design of privatisation programmes in the former CPEs privatisation in practice - a case study of Poland. Part 10 Privatisation in less developed countries, Catherine Price: privatisation and LDC characteristics market and government failure macro-economic and distributional factors forms and sequencing of privatisation political factors.

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