Globalization, privatization and the future of modern governance: a critical assessment.
Abstract There is a close but hitherto little-studied relationship between globalization and privatization. This article explores the connection between them from a political economy viewpoint. On globalization, it identifies several theoretical approaches to understanding the phenomenon, notes the various ways in which the word is used, and...

Subaltern strategies and development practice: urban water privatization in Ghana.
Introduction This paper is concerned with subaltern agents in development practice. It argues that despite elite decisionmakers ignoring the voices of citizens, actions of subalterns provide on-the-ground alternatives for development practice. I use the example of Ghana's attempt at urban water privatization to illustrate that postindependence development...

Union strategies in privatizations: Shakespeare-inspired alternatives.
INTRODUCTION Antony: Let Rome in Tiber melt, and the wide arch Of the ranged empire fall!(1) This article focuses on the strategic choices available to public sector unions facing privatization, and explores several alternative approaches that a union may wish to consider at the outset...

Privatisation programme lumbers slowly on: Egypt's privatisation programme, initiated in 1991, aimed at the privatisation of over 300 public sector firms. Simon Brindle reports from Cairo on the achievements and impact of a decade of privatisation and the road ahead. (Egypt).
Following the revolution of 1952, the Egyptian government began to play a more active role in the country's economy. Beginning with the establishment of iron and steel, cement and construction companies and the nationalisation of the Suez Canal and several privately owned companies; the public sector quickly established its...

Thinking about privatisation: evaluating the privatised state to inform our future.
This paper undertakes several tasks. Firstly, it briefly outlines the privatisation phenomenon and summarises the extent of privatisation policies in Australia against our historical context and today's international scene. Secondly, it evaluates this phenomenon from an independent stance and interprets what it has meant to citizens in terms of...

The Death of the Olmstedian Vision of Public Space.
KEYWORDS: Privatization, capitalism, democracy, privatized efficiency "Privatization: An End to the Parks and Recreation Profession as we Know it," the title of an article by Gary Lane (1997), a practitioner in the public sector, is a plea for and strategy by which public parks and recreation departments...

Defining the public-private partnership on terror: the war on terrorism has reshaped the relationship between government and the private security industry.
One manifestation of how terror affects business can be witnessed within the context of the public-private partnership in the war on terror. The ever-evolving relationship between government and industry is symbiotic: Government supports business and industry aids government. However, there are tensions that may impede further cooperation between the...

Public enterprises and privatization in East Asia: paths, politics and prospects (1).
Abstract While the privatization of public enterprises has been a worldwide policy trend in the latter part of the 20th century and has often been forced on developing countries by international aid organizations, there is much evidence to suggest that the implementation and delivery of this policy...

Transformation and future of public enterprises in continental Western Europe (1).
Abstract This article recognizes that in Continental Western Europe public enterprises have recently gone through a quick revolution which has made them regional and even global players, particularly in infrastructure development and management. This is the outcome of institutional changes both within the enterprises and outside in...

For the public good: developments in Australian federal government information management.
Like other governments, the federal government is large and complex. It consists of seventeen major portfolio departments and several hundred agencies, boards and committees, many of which are statutory bodies with their own legislation. While the majority of staff working for these organisations are members of the Australian Public...