Privatization and the Logic of Coalition Building

A Comparative Analysis of State Divestiture in Turkey and the United Kingdom

Datos Bibliográficos

ID6244262
AutoresZiya Öniş (Bogaziçi University), Zіya Önіş (0000-0002-0129-2944, Bogaziçi University, autor de correspondencia)
Año1991
Volumen24
Número2
Páginas231-253
Fecha de publicación1991-07-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaComparative Political Studies (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0010-4140 • E-ISSN: 1552-3829
EditorialSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/0010414091024002004
OpenAlexW2105322102
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas17
Referencias citadas9

Privatization has emerged as a global phenomenon during the 1980s. Rather paradoxically, however, the extent of privatization, both in terms of the scale of divestitures as well as the pace of implementation, has with notable exceptions remained quite restricted. This article seeks to develop a framework for explaining the pattern of limited privatization. The central argument is that the possibilities for utilizing privatization as an instrument for mobilizing an electoral coalition and establishing a form of “popular capitalism” are rather remote in the context of most developing countries. Alternative forms of privatization, involving direct sale to domestic or foreign corporations, are either not feasible or politically unattractive. The U.K. experiment is, in many ways, unique. The conditions that facilitated extensive privatization in the United Kingdom are not likely to be reproduced in other national contexts in the Third World. The author attempts to demonstrate the validity of this argument via a comparative analysis of the British and Turkish experiments in state divestiture

Argument (complex analysis · Capitalism · Context (archaeology · Divestment · Economic system · Economics · Market economy · Pace · Phenomenon · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Scale (ratio · State (computer science · Turkish · Law · Political and Economic history of UK and US · Social Policy and Reform Studies