Politics of greed how privatization structured politics in Central and Eastern Europe

Includes bibliographical references (p. 323-339) and index.

Introduction - politics and privatization -- Pt. I. Markets, democracy, and privatization - the theoretical argument -- 1. Neoliberal privatization - the dream that if you create private owners, democracy and the market economy will follow -- Pt. II. Institutionalism and beyond - introducing ownership regime theory -- 2. Institutional policy design, politics, and the creation of capitalism -- 3. Ownership regimes - the basic model of how they form -- 4. The two trajectories of ownership regime evolution -- Pt. III. Czech privatization as the illustrative case of the ownership model of political economy -- 5. Elite approval - November 1989 to May 1990 -- 6. Legitimating the giveaway - June 1990 to February 1991 -- 7. Creating plutocracy - February 1991 to May 1992 -- 8. Implementing the ownership regime - February 1991 to December 1995 -- 9. The abuses of plutocracy, the failure of Czech neoliberalism - January 1996 to December 1997 -- 10. Political and economic implications of Czech rapid privatization / Andrew Harrison Schwartz and Jiri Havel -- Pt. IV. Conclusions - ownership regime theory in comparative perspective -- 11. Plutocracy escaped, plutocracy avoided, plutocracy embedded / Andrew Harrison Schwartz and Jordan Gans-Morse.