This paper discusses the social and political processes health care transformation in postcommunist Europe has involved in practice. It begins by suggesting a theoretical framework for the study of postcommunist welfare. Focussing on Poland, it examines what lies behind the frictions which have become an integral feature of health care change, which most recently has centred on the privatisatio...

This study evaluates the impact of privatisation on efficiency and productivity of the Pakistani cement industry. To address some of the serious concerns about the problem of dimension and outlier, we use a newly developed unconditional hyperbolic α-quantile estimator of Wheelock and Wilson to estimate efficiency (Wheelock DC, Wilson PW. Non-parametric, unconditional quantile estimation for eff...

The tendency today to privatise many activities hitherto considered the exclusive preserve of the state has given rise to sharp debate. The specific nature of humanitarian emergencies elucidates in particularly stark contrast some of the main challenges connected to the privatisation and outsourcing of essential public services, such as the provision of drinking water and health care. Privatisi...

CEO incentive contracts are commonplace in China but their incidence varies significantly across Chinese cities. We show that city and provincial policy experiments help explain this variance. We examine the role of two policy experiments: the use of Special Economic Zones (SEZs) to attract foreign direct investment (FDI), and the rate at which state owned enterprises (SOEs) were privatised. CE...

Pension systems are core institutional arrangements that are expected to be stable and reliable over consecutive generations. Nevertheless, reforms in pension provision intensified over the past decades, with several countries opting for privatisation of their pension system. We ask which factors lead governments to privatise pension systems and focus on economic crises and different facets of ...

How do accounting practices interact with processes of state transformation? Focusing on the privatisation social housing in UK, we clarify an important mechanism through which served to constitute material incentives favour privatisation. Our archival research demonstrates that UK government’s atypical practice including public corporations’ liabilities its own debt calculations shaped discuss...

Academics have decried the erosion of public space under neoliberal practices that taken root since 1980s in cities around world. However, it is unclear whether users are concerned about ownership urban spaces they use. To find out, this study surveyed and observed their behaviour three types Liverpool, UK: one entirely private development, public-private partnership, renewal project over by a ...