...Volodymyr Reznik; Oleksandr Reznik This article explores the sources of legitimacy of private property in the means of production in Ukraine. The conceptualization of legitimacy of private property was made by analyzing theoretical approaches to the study of the foundations of private property...

...Anna Khakee The suspense-filled attempted partial privatization of the Narva Power Plants in the neo-liberal darling Estonia involved a rich cast, from trade unions and local scientists, via Estonian courts and ombudsmen to international consulting firms, major global banks and the US government...

...Christopher Monday This article examines how Russian privatization helped create the Putin political system. During the ‘who lost Russia’ debate in the 1990s, American economic advisors were rebuked for allowing a ‘capture of the state’ by the oligarchs. A larger time frame reveals...

... state with strong links to Russia. It argues that privatization processes involving actors from the patron state provide a unique opening for elite defection by heightening tensions between the rent-seeking interests of the personalistic president and those of new owners; direct or indirect signals from...

...Richard D. Anderson, Jr. Violations of rights, a weak Duma, political parties dominated by bureaucrats, and corrupt privatization are ordinarily taken as signs or even causes of the failure of democracy in Russia or at best as normal traits of electoral politics in a middle-income state. Yet all...

.... Published by Elsevier Science Ltd. All rights reserved. 2004 The Regents of the University of California Foreign land ownership Nationalism in Central and Eastern Europe European Union expansion Privatization Communist and Post-Communist Studies 37 (2004) 213 239 open their land markets to EU...

.... 2004 The Regents of the University of California Privatization Oligarchy Democracy Authoritarianism election Corruption Communist and Post-Communist Studies 37 (2004) 135 160 (Alexander Pushkin, 1827) 7-3 ress th /li Tel.: +1-51 E-mail add 1 No. 26 on 2002).0967-067X/$ - se Elsevier Ltd...

... by Health Insurance Funds (‘‘Kasy Chorych’’). In June 2001 and 2002, a survey of insurance administrators and health care workers provided data concerning the reception of the new system, the perceived inadequacies, and the postulated changes. The intended objective of privatization of health provisions...

... The Regents of the University of California Democracy Privatization Land reform Russia Communist and Post-Communist Studies 34 (2001) 39 61 Property, power, and the presidency: ownership policy reform and Russian executive legislative relations, 1990 1999 Andrew Barnes * Department of Political...

... of households. It is believed that the shift of property rights from the state to private sector must quickly facilitate such an improvement. Yet in the majority of cases, even after the first decade of transition, the economies have not returned to the path of sustainable growth. The countries tackling...

... of the University of California China’s economic reform Privatization Shareholding system Role of the state Communist and Post-Communist Studies 32 (1999) 319 337 The role of spontaneity and state initiative in China s shareholding system reform Shu-Yun Ma* Department of Government and Public...

..., and institutional context of re-privatization is analysed. From the point of view of the key objectives of property restitution, the different re-privatization formulas, practised throughout the region, are assessed. © 1997 The Regents of the University of California. Published by Elsevier Science Ltd. All rights...

...Kristian Palda The rapid privatization of the Czech economy has contributed to its first rank in the economic performance of the post-communist countries. The claim that 75 per cent of its GDP originates in the private sector may, however, be only formally true. Many of the voucher-privatized...